Kochi, July 10 -- The Kerala high court on Wednesday quashed a last-minute change to Kerala Engineering Architecture Medical (KEAM) 2025 examination prospectus on the weightage of marks in different subjects, calling it "illegal, arbitrary, and unjustified".

The single bench of Justice DK Singh delivered the ruling on a batch of writ petitions filed by students who passed the 10 + 2 examinations under CBSE and had appeared for the KEAM 2025.

The petitioners argued that the change, issued on July 1, just an hour before the rank list was published, altered the method for calculating final scores of candidates and it was done to favour those who studied under the state syllabus.

The change in the prospectus stated that while the KEAM mark...