thrissur kerala university of health sciences kuhs has decided to conduct a probe into mass failure in the firstyear first annual exam at three medical colleges in the statekuhs vicechancellor dr mohanan kunnummal said the overall pass percentage for the firstyear first mbbs exam in the university this year was around 6811 lower than 74 in the previous yearbut the pass percentage was lower than 50 in the three colleges alazhar medical college thodupuzha 3289 mount zion medical college pathanamthitta 34 and pk das institute of medical sciences palakkad 45955 he saidthe students who fail in the first annual exam are usually given an opportunity to appear for the save a year say exam and the pass percentage mostly goes up when the say exam results are out last year the pass percentage had gone up from 74 to over 90 after the say results were announced kuhs controller of exams dr s anilkumar disclosedkuhs mostly does not consider the outcome of the first annual exam as the final results secondyear classes begin immediately after the firstyear exam and even those students who failed the first annual exam can join secondyear classes they will have to drop out from the secondyear classes and go back to the firstyear classes only if they fail the say exam too mohanan clarifiedbut the university has decided to probe the results in the three colleges because they were found unusually low the probe will cover aspects like whether the college had enough faculties and the students received the required classes at least two of them the alazar college and mount zion college have admitted that they did not have enough faculties he saidthe vc said as per kuhs rules colleges are expected to conduct at least three internal exams in the firstyear mbbs course and those who have secured at least 50 in those tests should be allowed to appear for the firstyear exam conducted by kuhsthe probe team comprising the dean and the subject experts will also investigate whether the colleges had conducted internal exams and evaluation properly mohanan said