UP Board 2019 Exam: Over 3 lakh dropout in first 3 days after crackdown on cheating; 10 points

UP Board 2019 Exam: The Class 10 and 12 Uttar Pradesh board examinations began last week amid tight security with magistrates, police on high alert, besides the introduction of coded answer sheets to prevent any foul play.

UP Board Exam 2019: Over 3 lakh examinees have skipped the state board exams in Uttar Pradesh in the last three days.

UP Board Exam 2019: Over 3 lakh examinees have skipped the state board exams in Uttar Pradesh in the last three days. Examinations of class 10 and 12 have begun from February 7. A total of 58,06,922 students have enrolled for these exams which were being conducted at 8,354 examination centres. There are 31,95,603 students taking the Class 10 or the Higher Secondary exams, while 26,11,319 were writing the Class 12 or the Intermediate exams. In the wake of major steps taken by the Yogi Adityanath-led government against the education mafia that aid in the use of unfair means, just like the previous year, this year too a dip in the figure of the appearing candidates for the examination has been observed. According to Board officials, 1,314 examination centres have been identified as "sensitive" and 448 "very sensitive". • The Class 10 and 12 Uttar Pradesh board examinations began last week amid tight security with magistrates, police on high alert, besides the introduction of coded answer sheets to prevent any foul play. • On the third day of the exam ( Hindi paper for both classes), more than two and a half lakh students did not sit for the exam. On February 12, 2.9 lakh students of class X and 54,300 students of XII class skipped the examination. • Besides, in the first two days about 45 thousand students had left the examination. • A total of 3.12 lakh students have skipped the exams in last three days. • In the first three days, 54 students were caught cheating.  FIR against seven students has been filed. • Uttar Pradesh Board Secretary Neena Srivastava was quoted as IANs as saying that District Magistrates (DMs), police chiefs and even the Special Task Force (STF) were on vigil to take on organised crimes. • They have been tasked to ensure that there was no cheating and unfair means adopted by the students during the conduct of the annual exams. • For the first time, coded answer sheets were being used in which roll numbers has to be written on every page to ensure that there is no change of copies. • This demarcation has been done on the basis of the past track record of mass cheating in these places. • Mobile squads under magistrates would be conducting surprise checks and ensure that there was no copying. Some 2.50 lakh invigilators were on duty. Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma, who also holds the basic education charge has been making efforts to cleanse the system, which has been virtually destroyed by the copying mafia over the years. Sharma also visited some centres in the state capital to check the ground level preparations.