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“The board usually provides optional questions to blind students and also gives a note in the question paper on this, but today there were no such options given. It seems the question paper setter did not take into consideration blind examinees. In this condition the board will have to give these blind students marks directly,” a senior teacher said.Bhagirathsinh Parmar, a zonal officer for class X exam said that he has not received any information on this. Many students failed to answer the set of four visual questions as they could not understand the objects at all.“It is unusual to ask visually challenged students questions that include graphics. SURAT: In what is being seen as a major gaffe by the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) authorities, the science and technology exam’s multiple-choice questions (MCQ) paper for the ongoing Class X board exam on Saturday turned out to be a real challenge for the blind students..