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Grade 10 and 12 students following India's Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in the UAE could not believe their ears when they first heard that their re-exam over reports of a paper leak in India was cancelled. Most of the students said their original exam had gone well and the news of re-appearing was "really depressing".
On March 28, the CBSE announced that the Class 10 Mathematics and Class 12 Economics exams will be held again over reports of question paper leak. However, on March 30, the board announced that it would be conducting Class 12 Economics exams for all candidates "except students in CBSE schools located abroad". As regards the Class 10 Mathematics paper, the board said that since the initial probes revealed that the leak was restricted to the states of Delhi and Haryana, the re-exam will not be considered for any other state.
On Friday, Prakash Javadekar - India's Minister for Human Resource Development - tweeted that retest for Class 10 Maths will be conducted in Delhi and Haryana, only if investigation points to a large scale leak:
As far as Delhi and Haryana, where police investigation is on, retest for Class-X Maths will be conducted only if investigation points to large scale leak. There should be no confusion. (2/2)
- Prakash Javadekar (@PrakashJavdekar) March 30, 2018
I am amazed to see headlines in some news channels about confusion over retest. Out of 16 lakh students, more than 14 lakh students of Class X will not have to give retest in Maths. This is final decision. (1/2)
- Prakash Javadekar (@PrakashJavdekar) March 30, 2018
Class-X students from J&K, Uttarakhand,Himachal,Punjab, Chandigarh,Rajasthan,UP, Bihar, WB,North eastern states, Jharkhand,Odisha,Andhra, Telangana,Karnataka,TN, Puduchery,Andaman, Lakshadweep,Kerala, Karnataka, Goa,Maharashtra,Gujarat,MP, Chhattisgarh,will not give Maths retestAshok Kumar, CEO of Indian High School Dubai, said: "It's a great relief to students and the parents because they will be able to continue the training and other quality programmes they had plan for, without interruption."
- Prakash Javadekar (@PrakashJavdekar) March 30, 2018
A timeline of the paper leak
> March 23 - The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in India receives a fax informing them that a coaching centre manager of west Delhi's Rajinder Nagar named Vicky was leaking the question papers of CBSE. The next day, the fax was reported to the Delhi Police.
> March 26 - Class 12 students appeared for Economics paper
> March 28 - A first information report (FIR) has revealed that the CBSE had received an e-mail on March 28 at 1.40am with 12 images of the CBSE Class 10 Mathematics paper, but the CBSE completely ignored the tip-off sent by a person yet to be identified, according to media reports.
Later on the day, the CBSE in India announced that the Class 10 Mathematics and Class 12 Economics board exams will be held again over reports of paper leak.
The leaked paper, circulated on WhatsApp, was initially sold off for Rs35,000, but the prices later dropped to Rs5,000, according to media reports. It is alleged that 1,000 students in Delhi may have accessed the paper.
> March 29 - Students in India held a protest at Delhi's Jantar Mantar to demand a re-examination of all subjects as every paper had been leaked.
> March 30 - CBSE announced that there will be no re-examination for students outside India. Class 10 Maths re-exam will be held only in Delhi and Haryana.
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