PTI
New Delhi: The government Wednesday favoured a probe into the reported leakage of a CBSE Class XII examination paper and suggestions that the questions were rather difficult for the students, after members from several parties raised the issue in the Lok Sabha.
NK Premchandran (RSP) and KC Venugopal (Congress) said most questions of the mathematics paper were “very difficult” and out of syllabus, while referring to media reports that claimed that the questions were leaked in the Patna region.
While even many bright students in southern India found the questions very tough, on the other hand they were leaked in north India, Venugopal said, alleging there was a conspiracy behind it and the HRD ministry should intervene. Premchandran said tens of thousands of CBSE students were “adversely affected” by the mathematics paper as 80 per cent of the questions were very difficult and also out of syllabus.
Ramesh Bidhuri (BJP) blamed the UPA government, saying they have set up a system which tries to “suppress bright Indian students”.
Making a statement, Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said such an issue has “nothing to do with this side or that side”. “The matter deserves enquiry,” he said, adding that he would refer the matter to the HRD Ministry.
Students, parents start online petition
New Delhi: Social media is abuzz with complaints against the “tough” Math paper for Class XII and over 240 petitions have been posted on Change.org platform, getting support from 25,000 people. Within 24 hours of the Mathematics exam, which reportedly left many students in tears, students and parents from across the country have started the online campaign for leniency in evaluation. “Hundreds of anxious Class XII students and their parents have started petitions on Change.org appealing the CBSE to show leniency in evaluating the Mathematics paper that concluded Tuesday,” said the petition platform. The biggest petition, with 12,500 signatures, was started by a student from Guwahati.
