I tend to completely disagree.
It depends on whether it is a "public examination" or a "internal examination". Also, if it is a "large scale" examination (like CBSE, ICSE, UPSC) or a departmental examination.
The marks awarded by the university in an examination form part of the results. Once the results are announced, they come into the "public domain".
In fact, several universities put up the results, marks and grades obtained by students on the notice board. So where is the question of "fiduciary realtionship" ?
For example, results announced by various boards are put up on the internet. They are accessible to anyone as long as you know the roll number. The roll numbers are displayed on the notice board of every school and college. So, where is the secrecy ?
My personal experience is as follows:
My son studies in one of the premier institutes of this country. The institute has a semester system and awards grades for each course. The grades are based on the marks obtained (statistical distribution of the whole class marks divided into A, B, C, D and E grades based on various parameters). He had a suspicion that in one of the courses, a professor had unduly favoured another student. The notice board results only showed the grades but not the marks. Encouraged by me (he was very reluctant about it initially) he filed a
RTI application with the Dean of Academics to get the marks of all the students in the course, the principle used for the statistical distribution and the methodology used for correlating marks with grades. The
RTI application was answered to and it turned out that not only his suspicions were correct but there were other "manipulations" too.
Linardini, I recall some decisions of the
CIC and some SCIC about this. Please give some time to trace these out for you.