Over six lakh skip UP Board exams in 9 days

  • | Saturday | 23rd February, 2019

Allahabad: Over six lakh students have skipped the class X and XII examinations of Uttar Pradesh Secondary Education Board ( UPSEB ) while 252 were caught cheating in the past nine days. The number drop from 1.15 lakh students in 2017, around 1.12 lakh in 2018 to only 6,300 students in 2019 as they failed to connived with school managers for clearing the exams,” said Srivastava. Majority of the students who had left the exams belong to class X, said officials. This year, high-quality audio-fitted surveillance system has been made mandatory and order has been issued to preserve the video footages till the completion of the exam process.“There is also a decline of over 94% in the number of students who had registered from Nepal and neighbouring states for class X and XII exams this year due to tough measures against cheating mafia. At least 21% of the total centres in the state have been categorised as either sensitive or most-sensitive due to incidents of copying in last year.Secretary, UPSEB, Neena Srivastava said, “The increasing count of absent students can be attributed to strict anti-copying measures that we have adopted this year by plugging the loopholes of the class X and XII exams that were left out in the exams conducted in 2018.”Last year, CCTVs were not audio-fitted due to which invigilators had resorted to dictating answers to students.

Allahabad: Over six lakh students have skipped the class X and XII examinations of Uttar Pradesh Secondary Education Board ( UPSEB ) while 252 were caught cheating in the past nine days. The figure of students skipping the exam is expected to touch the figure of nine lakh by the end of the exams.On Friday, around 18 girls and boys were caught cheating in Physics, Commerce and Painting papers despite surveillance by closed circuit television camera surveillance, monitoring by UP-Special Task Force and use of bar-coded copies in every centres.UPSEB officials said the examinees are not turning out at centres due to strict anti-copying measures, but experts stressed on the need to revamp the way education is being imparted in government schools.The high school and intermediate exams of the Board started simultaneously on February 7 and will end on March 2.A total of 58,06,922 students were registered for the exams out of which 31,95,603 examinees belongs to high school. Majority of the students who had left the exams belong to class X, said officials. At least 21% of the total centres in the state have been categorised as either sensitive or most-sensitive due to incidents of copying in last year.Secretary, UPSEB, Neena Srivastava said, “The increasing count of absent students can be attributed to strict anti-copying measures that we have adopted this year by plugging the loopholes of the class X and XII exams that were left out in the exams conducted in 2018.”Last year, CCTVs were not audio-fitted due to which invigilators had resorted to dictating answers to students. This year, high-quality audio-fitted surveillance system has been made mandatory and order has been issued to preserve the video footages till the completion of the exam process.“There is also a decline of over 94% in the number of students who had registered from Nepal and neighbouring states for class X and XII exams this year due to tough measures against cheating mafia. The number drop from 1.15 lakh students in 2017, around 1.12 lakh in 2018 to only 6,300 students in 2019 as they failed to connived with school managers for clearing the exams,” said Srivastava.

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