( 1 ) AS these appeals required urgent hearing, they are taken up for final disposal at the admission stage with consent of both sides.

( 2 ) APPELLANTS were the petitioners in W. P. Nos. 564 to 688/98 who have filed these appeals against the order dated 27-1-1998 of the learned single Judge passed dismissing their petitions.

( 3 ) APPELLANTS were students of second respondent Sharavathi Dental College, Shimoga. They were admitted in this college for the academic year 1996-97 to four years Bachelor of Dental Sciences Course ('bds course' for short ). On completing their first year study of the said course and on satisfying the required criteria they were allowed to take the first year BDS examination conducted in September 1996-97 by respondent No. 1 Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore (the 'university' for short ). The results were announced by the University declaring them failed, since they were found to have failed in one or more subjects of their examination when the marks secured by them in each of the examination paper, according to the University, computed in terms of the relevant provisions of the "scheme of Examination" adopted by the U