Kochi | A division bench of the Kerala High Court on Thursday upheld the decision of the single judge of the same court, striking down a last-minute change made by the state government to the KEAM 2025 entrance exam prospectus.

The bench of Justices Anil K Narendran and Muralee Krishna S said that it finds "absolutely no reason to interfere with the decision of the single judge".

With the observation, it dismissed the state government's appeal against the single judge's July 9 order.

The single judge's order striking down the government's decision as "illegal, arbitrary, and unjustified", came on a petition filed by a group of CBSE students who sat for the KEAM (Kerala Engineering, Architecture, and Medical Entrance Examination).

The students 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.

Justice D K Singh had observed that the timing of the decision appeared suspicious.

The single judge had ordered that the rank list be reissued using the original formula specified in the February 19 prospectus.

"We are confirming the order of the single judge," the division bench said on Thursday, and said that the detailed order would be available in a couple of days.