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Kathmandu Saturday September 29, 2001 Ashwin 13, 2058.
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Inhumane error
This refers to the news story entitled
"Error ridden marksheets surprise secondary students" (September 26, 2001, TKP).
We were also surprised to see our marksheets.
Not that we passed the examinations. Five marksheets of the twenty five students in our
class, who sat for physics examination, were marked "Absent". Not only that none
of us got more than 40 percent in compulsory English paper. Besides, ten of us failed not
because we did not appear in the examination. It was because the entries of marks were
again marked "Absent" in our marksheets.
It was totally absurd to learn such blunders,
and the way the Higher Secondary Board of Education conducted the 10+2 examination. We had
not expected nor faced such kind of ruthless irregularities in this country. Of the twenty
five students, who appeared in last HSEB examination, half of us failed because our
marksheets were marked either absent, or were given unreasonably low marks. The director
of the HSEB blamed on the students, saying that the students did not write their code
numbers accurately. If so, then what were the "invigilators" in the examination
halls doing? Were they present there to show their ugly faces to students? All those, who
were deputed as invigilators in the examination halls, were incompetent. Many of them were
deputed from the government-run primary schools. They could hardly read question papers.
If this is the case, one can imagine how the HSEB examination is conducted, and answer
papers evaluated.
What we have come to realize is that the
members of HSEB, including the controller, are ill-competent and insincere. And such
ill-competent persons should not have been there. Nor have they any right to play with the
future of students. These people have not only injected dirty politics into the education
system, but also spoilt our future. They are no better than criminals. If need be, we can
even knock the doors of the court.
The Ministry of Education cannot remain
silent on such gross and "inhumane" blunders. It has to take strong action
against those who were coordinated the last HSEB examination, and set up a commission that
will help evaluate our answer scripts fairly and impartially.
Nijjwol, Sujit, Sanjeeta, Shanker, Saurav, Tak
Prasad and Himal
Campion Kathmandu College, Gahanapokhari |
