The evaluators of answer script pertaining to class X and XII committed a blunder by adding 2 and 2 resulting in 3. It resulted in failing more than 65000 students.
This simple mistake highlights the carelessness of the teachers. These mistakes was identified when the marks were totaled once again while being fed into computers.
It took a lot of time for undertaking re-counting exercise of all the answer scripts.
It is very surprising that after the valuation of these scripts, two more persons checked it but they could not detect the mistake.
Mr. Pathan who is an Officer on special duty of GSHSEB for class X, said that the exercise of recounting had to be undertaken since the fate of thousands of students was involved.
Mr. G D Patel, Secretary of Examinations for XII General Stream expressed his surprise that very senior teachers of Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools committed these basic mistakes.
The interesting thing is that these evaluators are never penalized.