Brokers hover around colleges, offering failed students an easy way to clear the exam — for a price.
Passing the pre-university supplementary exam has become child’s play now. Just pay the brokers, and save time spent on pouring over text books.
For the brokers, this is prime business month of the year. They have fixed price for pass marks in different streams, and if a student wants more marks, the price will also move north.
This correspondent won the confidence of a broker outside a prestigious college in Koramangala. “This time the results have been bad, and we have more and more candidates approaching us than in the previous years,” he said.
The broker, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said there were two methods by which they operate.
“Tabulation is one method. We ask the student to apply for revaluation. We have the right contacts to help the student pass the exam. However, this is a bit dicey,” he said.
The student will have to take the supplementary exam in the second method. “This is a bit expensive. The student will have to fill the answer sheet. We sure that he or she will pass the exam,” he added.
The broker said a student will have to shell out Rs4,000 for pass marks in Arts, Rs5,000 for Commerce, and Rs6,000 for Science. “The student will have to pay more for higher marks.” He said besides students, parents too approach them with money. “We assure them that we have contacts in the evaluation department, and take 80% as advance. The remaining 20% will be taken after the results are out.”
A few students said the brokers were hovering around their colleges the day the PUC results were announced. The men offered to help students to clear the papers without having to study.
A student, who gave money to two such men, claimed he has been cheated. “They gave us their mobile numbers, and later we contacted them. They demanded money, which I gave. A week later, I could not reach their numbers,” the student said.
Additional commissioner of police (law and order) T Suneel Kumar said he had ordered a probe. “The students are scared to tell their parents or the police. Exploiting this fear, these cheats tend to multiply in no time,” he said.
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