SSLC answer-script with threat goes viral

Bengaluru: SSLC candidates pinning currency notes to their answer-scripts, penning heart-wringing pleas, dropping threats, offering inducements or indulging in claptrap is not new. Several such answer-scripts have gone viral on WhatsApp in the past few days, exposing blatant violation of the ban on mobile phones inside evaluation centres. In one answer-script that has gone viral, the candidate has oscillated between threatening to invoke black magic against the evaluator to committing suicide. Another candidate has waxed eloquently on how to make chicken curry. The Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board (KSEEB), which has banned use of mobile phones inside evaluation centres of SSLC answer-scripts from this year, has said evaluators uploading scripts on WhatsApp will face the music. Yashoda Bopanna, director of KSEEB, told TOI that students should focus on studying well, instead of writing such things. "We don't know whether they are original answer-scripts or not and where they originated. We will conduct an inquiry, if anyone is found guilty of leaking them. We will take action against them," she said. Evaluation of answer-papers is going on at 210 centres and around 57,000 teachers are evaluating the scripts. The SSLC results are expected to be announced in the second week of May. According to sources in KSEEB, some students write such things on answer- papers every year but evaluators are now violating the rules by leaking them. They said the evaluator who leaked the suicide threat might have been scared and put it on WhatsApp. But leaking answer scripts that have chicken curry recipe is only mischief, they added.

WHAT THE STUDENT WROTE

"If the evaluator doesn't pass me, I will commit suicide. I will also perform black magic on the evaluator and his or her family members, so that they die. Maths is a difficult subject. I have done well in other subjects. If I fail in this subject, I will only be abused by my family members."

A student in maths answer-script