Wrong paper gives shock to students

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal">CHANDIGARH: The students of class X at an examination centre were in for a shock on Thursday morning. All it took was one look at the the subject detail in the attendance sheet of the English exam and the blood drained from their faces.<br /><br />Instead of English Language and Literature paper, a course which they had studied, the students were about to appear for the English Communicative paper.<br /><br />The paper listed in the sheet was not what they had studied for."It was a complete disaster. I felt I had read the date-sheet wrong.'''' said a student recalling the moments.<br /><br />What followed was confusion which lasted for half-an-hour. The centre superintendent was informed who got in touch with the school principal. He confirmed that the students were right.<br /><br />Consequently, the CBSE authorities were informed. They rushed to their locker in a nationalised bank to get extra copies of the right question paper to be delivered at the examination centre.<br /><br />Finally, the students were given the question papers of the subject they had studied for.<br /><br />This scenario was enacted in five examination centres across the region. How did the wrong question papers land up at the examination centres in the first place?<br /><br />It was the schools which had goofed up. The school authorities had filled in the wrong information in the examination forms, a document indicating the various subjects for which the students of that particular school would be taking the Board exams.<br /><br />Sources in CBSE said that the forms were submitted by the schools in September 2003.<br /><br />The schools were subsequently given a check list to reconfirm the subjects in December.<br /><br />They failed to detect the error. Sources said that the school authorities could have corrected the mistake at the time of issuance of the admit cards. The error slipped their notice on all the three occasions leading to the present episode.<br /><br />The seven schools who committed the error include VPS, Panchkula, Alpine Public School, Pinjore, M S Saraswati School, Rohtak, Aryavrat School, Charkhi Dadri, Sawan Public School, Sirsa, Sanjay Public School, Sector 44, Chandigarh and GMHS, Sarangpur.<br /><br />The fiasco has, however, left the CBSE richer by around Rs one lakh. Taking a serious view of the fault on part of the schools, the schools have been fined Rs 500 per student.<br /><br />CBSE regional officer P I Sabu said that the mistake could have proved costly for the students. "It is just that we were able to handle the crisis. The students were given half-an-hour extra to complete the paper,'''' he said. He said that he has written to the school principals as also the DPI (schools) to take action against the officials concerned.<br /><br /><formid=526372></formid=526372></div> </div>