Law entrance examination highly flawed - Minister

Irangika Range

There is evidence that the law entrance examination conducted by the Sri Lanka Law College for 2012 was highly flawed and there were malpractices, Power and Energy Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka said.

Addressing a seminar on finding solutions for the examination crisis organised by the National Intellectual Council in Colombo yesterday, Minister Ranawaka said the percentage of Tamil and English medium students in the pass list was high, compared to Sinhala medium students and it seems to be due to a malpractice like the leakage of question papers or negligence on the part of answers by script evaluators.

He said the Law College Administration Authority must take immediate action to rectify this situation with the assistance of experts in universities without letting the situation getting worse. The minister said he believed that experts in Colombo and Sri Jayawardenapura Universities would be able to find a solution to this.

"We too analysed the results and found evidence of malpractice," he said. "If somebody tries to say that there was no exam manipulation, it is a lie," he said.

The minister said the leakage of question papers of public examinations can happen in any society.

"But, we need to take stern action to prevent such malpractices".

Ranawaka said the people in the process from preparing question papers to distributing them to candidates, should be reduced while the number of people involved should be reduced.

"It is also necessary to use mathematical formulas to analyse the results," he said.