Hyderabad, April 24 --  The Telangana High Court has ruled that a postgraduate (PG) medical student who fails even a single theory paper must reappear for all four theory papers, and not just the one they failed, along with practical, clinical and viva voce examinations, holding that a PG medical examination is a single, composite assessment and cannot be split up at a student's convenience.

In plain terms, the court said that a PG medical exam is an all-or-nothing test. If you fail any one part of it, you have to redo the whole thing, not just the part you stumbled on.

Justice Nagesh Bheemapaka dismissed the petition of Salman Mahmood, an MD Anaesthesiology student at Deccan College of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, who had missed t...