Hyderabad, July 9 -- Students staged a protest at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) at Kukatpally on Thursday, July 9, demanding extra grace marks to help them pass their exams.

Grace marks are governed by a set of academic regulations revised periodically by the University Grants Commission (UGC). R22 regulations, the trigger for the protests, apply to students admitted in 2022. With new revisions in 2025, batches of 2022, 2023 and 2024 were left in a lurch with much fewer grace marks, students have alleged.

Speaking to Siasat.com, a student leader and member of the Student Protection Forum, Mohammad Nehaal-ur-Rehman, claimed that the R22 regulation originally did not allow any grace marks for students.

According to him...