CBSE fails in basic maths again, leaves kids in lurch

Manash Pratim Gohain | TNN | Updated: Jun 24, 2018, 08:32 IST


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Representative imageNEW DELHI: On May 26, Meenakshi failed the Class XII boards with 16 marks in English core. Now, the Delhi girl is on her way to college as verification of her result showed CBSE hadn't added up her marks correctly. She had scored 80 - a shocking difference of 400%. 

"Forget failing, I could not have scored anything less than 80," Meenakshi said. "They didn't add 64 marks, so all I got was 16, which has now become 80."

Like last year, CBSE's totalling errors are again torturing thousands of Class X and Class XII students. Although board officials aren't saying how many applications they have got, and how many results have had to be revised, a source told TOI there are more than 10,000 requests for verification this year.

TOI had reported on the high incidence of totalling errors last year, too. A Mumbai student who scored 80% and above in all his subjects had got just 50 in maths. After verification, his marks went up to 90. Delhi girl Samiksha Sharma's maths score more than doubled from 42 to 90.