CBSE cancels re-exam for UAE students
In the UAE alone, nearly 8,474 students appeared for the Grade 10 exam and 2,713 students appeared for Grade 12 test.
Students of Grade 10 and 12 students following India’s Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in the UAE were ecstatic on learning that a re-exam following reports of a paper leak in India was cancelled. Both parents and students were delighted that there was to be NO RE-EXAM as most students had done their original paper well and the news that they might have to reappear for another exam on the same subjects was “shattering and depressing”.
Regarding the Class 10 Maths paper, CBSE said that since the initial probes had revealed that the leak was restricted only to the two northern states of Delhi and Haryana, the re-exam will not be considered for any other state in the country or aboard.
Prakash Javadekar – India’s Minister for Human Resource Development – tweeted on Friday that retest for Class 10 Maths will be conducted in Delhi and Haryana, only if investigation points to a large scale leak.
Anil Swarup, secretary, School Education at Indian Union Human Resources Development Ministry, reportedly said that the re-examination for Class 12 Economics paper will be held on April 25 in India. Swarup further added that the decision to conduct fresh exams will not affect the date of publication of the results scheduled to be declared in May end. According to Indian media reports, Swarup reaffirmed that ‘no fresh test outside of India’.
According to media reports the CBSE decision was a result of students and their parents who took to the streets in large numbers across India to denounce the question paper leak.
Many even demanded the sacking of the CBSE head Anita Karwal who appeared to be non-pulsed by the fiasco and told reports media personnel with a smile that “there was nothing to worry’.
The leak and re-test has affected thousands of students and forced their families to postpone or cancel planned holidays and caused uncertainty to those seeking entrance to higher studies in other institutions.
In the UAE alone, 8,474 students would have had to re-appear the Class 10 Mathematics exam and 2,713 students from Class 12 for the Economics paper had there been a retest, as per the earlier CBSE notification.
