The protesting students and their parents are demanding that either re-tests be conducted for all exams or for none at all.
CBSE students protesting over the alleged paper leak at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Thursday. Raising slogans of ‘we want justice’, the X and XII Class students of schools affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) gathered near Jantar Mantar and demanded strict action against the culprits. (Photo: Ritik Jain)
Dozens of agitated students along with their parents on Thursday protested here in the national capital against the CBSE paper leak and demanded that re-tests be conducted for all exams or none at all.
Raising slogans of ‘we want justice’, the X and XII Class students of schools affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) gathered near Jantar Mantar and demanded strict action against the culprits.
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Some even alleged that question papers of almost all subjects were leaked.
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“Either there should re-examinations of all subjects or else no retests should take place. Why are we being made to pay for the mistake of others,” said a furious class 12th student of a public school.
More than 28 lakh students have been affected by CBSE decision on Wednesday to re-conduct examination for two papers of Class X and XII.
As per the Central Board of Secondary Examination (CBSE), a total of 16,38,428 and 11,86,306 students had registered for examination this year for Class X and Class XII respectively.
The board had announced it will re-conduct exams for Maths paper of Class X and Economics paper of Class XII after leak of both papers on social media message application. Exam in both papers were held on Wednesday.
The Union government had said a police investigation had been ordered, and assured the students and parents on the arrest of culprits soon.
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