People climbed the high walls of an examination centre in Vaishali district to pass on chits to examinees.
The 2016 intermediate exam topper in humanities was unable to answer basic questions posed by reporters on her subjects.
What preventive measures did the Board take?
Bar code on answer sheets was introduced to concealing students’ identity.
CCTV cameras were installed.
Section 144 was imposed on the days of the exams.
Heavy police personnel were deployed along with regular visits of ‘flying squads’ at the exam centres.
Following this, 64% students failed to pass the Class XII exam in 2017.
As many as 654 schools failed to produce even a single successful candidate.
Authorities claimed all this was proof that only deserving students passed this year.
What went wrong this year?
2017 humanities topper again failed to answer even the basic questions of the subject in which he had got 83% marks.
He was also found to have fudged his age.
There were claims by some students of having cracked the all-India IIT-JEE tests and yet failing in their BSEB intermediate exams.
Some claimed that they had received marks in subjects they hadn’t even appeared in.
What are the reasons?
Campant corruption in the BSEB is prevalent.
Also Teacher absenteeism in higher secondary schools as high as 29%.
The government’s decision to appoint teachers on contract while abolishing the post of Assistant Teachers is often faulted for marring the quality of education.
For 27.5 million students, there are only 5,00,000 teachers, of whom 4,00,000 are on contract.
