Scribblings of an Oxaanto Electron

The High School Leaving Certificate Examinations or the 10th standard board exams. Call it by whatever name you may, but it is the first extremely important examination in any student’s life, for, it decides which way the student is headed. Will it be arts or science, or should the student take up commerce? Will the student get admitted into a good college? These and many more such questions are answered, the day the results of the HSLC are declared. A big day, indeed for the student and for the family as well! But for the Officials of the Secondary Education Board of Assam, these are not very important issues, for; they have other priorities, like filling up their bank accounts, to look after. They have not shown even an iota of regret or repentance after the controversies and anomalies that have exposed the gaping holes in the system over the last few months. How, you may ask...well…if you thought question papers being leaked is BIG news, if exams being postponed time and again is sa