CBSE Term-1 Result 2022 manipulated, question paper leaked: CSMA Complaint

CBSE Schools’ Management Association (CSMA), an umbrella organisation of such schools in Tamil Nadu has unvailed the malpractices taking place at these schools.

While CBSE Term-1 Results 2021 are expected to be released in the month of January, a complaint received by the Board states that some CBSE schools across Tamil Nadu have been manipulating Class 10 and Class 12 CBSE exam results. It further states that CBSE question papers have been leaked by these schools and teachers have helped students answer the CBSE question papers.

CBSE Schools’ Management Association (CSMA), an umbrella organisation of such schools in Tamil Nadu has unveiled the malpractices taking place at these schools. The association has also asked the Central Board for Secondary Education to cancel the exams, which began in December first week.

The Board decided to conduct CBSE Board Exams 2022 for Class 10 and Class 12 in two terms starting this academic session. Term-1 CBSE Exams were conducted in December in multiple-choice questions (MCQs) format and the term-1 CBSE exams are scheduled for March. The term two exams would require descriptive answers.

The CBSE allowed all schools to conduct and evaluate the December exam papers on their own, with only one external supervisor. According to CSMA, these schools are violating this trust. The CSMA has sent to the CBSE an eight-page letter detailing how question papers were leaked to students through WhatsApp, LAN and as hard copies. The students would be made to sit in a separate hall and given the answers before they were sent to the exam halls, TOI reported.

Students were also taught to manipulate the OMR sheets. First, the schools asked students to write option ‘c’ (in lower case), in the last answer box if they were not sure of the answer. After the exam, the teachers would change the ‘c’ to ‘a’ or ‘b’ or ‘d’, whichever was the right answer, according to the letter accessed by TOI. Sources said it was easy to change ‘c’ (lowercase) to the other letters, which was why the students were asked to write it when they were not sure of the answer.

The CBSE got wind of this practice — by this time the major subjects were done — and decreed that only capital letters should be used when choosing the answer option. CSMA secretary P Ashok Shankar says the scamsters then started telling the students to leave the boxes empty if they didn’t know the answers. The teachers would later fill in the correct answers.

Ashok Shankar told TOI that since there was only one external observer in a school, teachers could easily manipulate the answer scripts. In many schools, 15 to 20 students got full marks, and no student failed because of this malpractice.

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