Re-evaluation of NATA 2018 drawing scores to be allowed by COA

New Delhi, June 8: Council of Architecture (COA) has released a notification stating that based on requests from students, application for review of the scores for the drawing section will commence soon. This decision has also been taken in order to ensure that no meritorious or deserving candidate is put to any inconvenience due to the technical glitches. The candidates have also been communicated about the same through email.

What are the details announced about re-evaluation?

The candidates will be able to apply for the review of their secured scores in the drawing section. A fee of Rs. 700 has to be paid by the candidates to go ahead with the review. Details about the re-evaluation have not been announced as of yet. The entire process will be informed soon on the official website of COA and NATA.

This is the first time COA has initiated re-evaluation services to the candidates for NATA. In the earlier years, no re-evaluation requests of the students were accepted by the authorities.

Why is the re-evaluation being carried out?

The score-card of NATA 2018 was released on June 4. However, an email was sent to all of the candidates stating that the released score-card was to be ignored. As per the email, a new and revised score-card was published on June 7. According to COA authorities, this confusion has occurred due to technical glitches. However, as candidates have been complaining about receiving low marks in the drawing section of the paper, the authorities have reached a decision to allow review of scores only for that particular section.