K. Vinod Chandran, J.

The petitioners in the above writ petitions, were students under the Calicut University, for the B. Tech graduate course of the 2004 scheme. The petitioners completed the course in 2012, but had not qualified in the regular examinations conducted by the University. Despite the petitioners having not qualified for award of graduate degree, in the normal duration of the course, the petitioners' assert to be "highly academic". The fact remains that they had not qualified in Engineering Mathematics, which gave rise to the instant litigation. Both the petitioners had appeared for the Engineering Mathematics paper in the supplementary examination under the 2004 scheme, in July, 2012. Having failed in the said examination, they appeared before this Court raising allegations against the conduct of the examination as also the fact that certain questions in the question paper were wrong; i.e. not possible of a solution. The petitioners asserted that they had answered the other questions correctly and despite that they had failed in the examination. The petitioners' revaluation also did not yield any result. The petitioners hence challenged the conduct of the ex