Decision after parents allege internal marks were not included.
The Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education will recheck the marks of 10 students, most of them from the science stream of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examination. The decision was taken after over 200 furious parents and students agitated outside the Pune divisional office here on Friday.
The parents were furious over incorrect assessment of HSC papers and not adding internal marks to the results declared online on Thursday.
The parents alleged that the board failed to do the correct assessment and did not include the internal marks of the students. The students have scored really low marks in physics, chemistry, mathematics and biology (PCMB).
With the low score in PCMB group, the prospects of the students for national common entrance test fades away and they may miss the chance to get into prestigious institutes like Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT).
From this year, 50% weight for board marks and 50% for JEE-IIT entrance will be counted for admission to engineering colleges. Most of the students who were agitating had scored less than 50% marks in the PCMB group.
Pune division chairman Sunil Chauhan said, “We are confident that there has been no wrong and incorrect assessment. But to clear the doubts of the parents, we will try and recheck some of the results. I appeal to the parents and students to follow the prescribed procedure for verification, revaluation and getting the photo-copies of their answer-sheets,” said Chauhan.
The parents demanded that the board re-assess the answer-sheets.
Parents, students shocked
Madhuri Gunjal, a parent, said, “ My son scored 88% marks in Std X, but only 12 marks in physics. He has got provisional admission to BBM course at MIT. I have deposited Rs50,000 as fees. In the PCM group he scored 30 in mathematics and 37 in chemistry. If these students have practical examination for 30 marks and written for 70, then how could he score such low marks?”
Varsha Tiwari, mother of Anubhav Tiwari who topped the JEE-IIT main test said, “My son scored 99.2% marks in Std X. He was a topper throughout and scored only 78% in HSC. This clearly shows that the paper assessment was faulty and internal marks were not added. I want the board to suspend this result and do re-assessment of papers.”
Anil Kumar, another parent, said, “My son topped the entrance examination, but received 35 marks each in PCMB group. How is it possible that he received the same figure for the entire group?”
Tanveen Khedekar, student of Abasaheb Garware College said, “I failed in physics. I was surprised as I had scored 85% in Std X board examination and only 57% in Std XII. Both physics and mathematics paper were not very hard.”
BRP student wing demands Jadhav’s resignation
Bharatiya Republican Party’s Samayak Vidyarthi Andolan has demanded resignation of state board chairman Sarjerao Jadhav for negligence in HSC results. In a letter to board officials, Kiran Gaikwad, president of the party’s city unit said, “The state board has hurriedly declared the results for HSC and made innumerous mistakes in it. These mistakes have affected the students chances of appearing for JEE IIT advanced examination to be held on June 2.”
Students’ careers not affected, claims board chief
Board chairman Sarjerao Jadhav said, “If the students have scored less, then the cut-off for the state board will naturally come down and thus they need not worry about missing the opportunity for any examination or entry to institutes. If there is any change in the result, we will rectify it and will take appropriate steps.”
State secretary for Education JS Saharia when contacted said, “I have no information regarding it. “
Bone of contention
Students who have qualified JEE-IIT main are eligible to appear for JEE-IIT advanced, provided they fall into the top 20 percentile of their respective boards. These agitating students have scored low marks in PCMB group so their chance to get into IIT will be missed, if the board continues with its adamant stand. The JEE advanced will take place on June 2 and the students have to produce their marks to appear for the examination. The state board is waiting for the CBSE to calculate the cut-off score for students to be eligible to appear for the JEE test.
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