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 sad, then think again!
For a few seemingly innocent cows happened to stray into strong rooms at the Goalpara Government High School and managed to destroy just about a little more than a hundred answer scripts which were stored there for evaluation. Yes, scripts which held the fate of so many students within the pages were left to the mercy of nature’s elements at this particular centre.
The blame game is on with Senior officials saying that the school authorities are responsible for the sheer negligence. But, going by the recent records, one can safely say that it’s not just the poor watchman who apparently forgot to lock the gate properly, who can be called careless! Double checking the safety of the papers shouldn’t have been much of a trouble, but then who will go to such lengths for the sake of a few hundred answer sheets?
Problems after problems seem to have crippled the High School Leaving Certificate Examination this year and this one can be listed as one of the problems, for sure. Here’s hoping, against hope that the concerned authorities will wake up from their deep slumber!
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 sad, then think again!
For a few seemingly innocent cows happened to stray into strong rooms at the Goalpara Government High School and managed to destroy just about a little more than a hundred answer scripts which were stored there for evaluation. Yes, scripts which held the fate of so many students within the pages were left to the mercy of nature’s elements at this particular centre.
The blame game is on with Senior officials saying that the school authorities are responsible for the sheer negligence. But, going by the recent records, one can safely say that it’s not just the poor watchman who apparently forgot to lock the gate properly, who can be called careless! Double checking the safety of the papers shouldn’t have been much of a trouble, but then who will go to such lengths for the sake of a few hundred answer sheets?
Problems after problems seem to have crippled the High School Leaving Certificate Examination this year and this one can be listed as one of the problems, for sure. Here’s hoping, against hope that the concerned authorities will wake up from their deep slumber!
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