14 Gurugram schools made mistakes in marking Class 9 students

GURUGRAM: Board of School Education Haryana (BSEH) is trying to figure out the reasons for the poor performance of students in the Class 10 board exams. As part of its efforts, the board collected around 1,000 final exam answersheets of Class 9 students from random schools across the state and got them rechecked. It has found mistakes in checking and scoring answer sheets in 14 city schools.

While 51.15% students from Haryana passed the Class 10 exams, only 45.67% students from Gurugram cleared the 2017-18 exams, placing it in the 16th rank among 21 districts. Class 9 exams, which come before that, are not conducted by the board but by schools respectively. The collected answersheets were rechecked by teachers from other schools to check how schools are failing to rate students’ performance and improve the same before the boards.

Satyanarayan Yadav, state secretary of Haryana School Teachers Association said, “The purpose of this exercise is for the board to find out the areas where schools are going wrong. The aim is to improve the Class 10 pass percentage next year.”

Seven schools in Gurugram made mistakes in checking the Hindi answer sheets and two wrongly calculated the marks. Principal of one such school (Government Senior Secondary School, Badshapur) Poonam Arora said, “All checking is done according to the norms of the board. We will rectify our shortcomings.” Dalip Kumar, principal of Government Senior Secondary School, Hazipur, is not ready to believe that his school’s teacher made mistakes in marking Hindi answer sheets. “We have not received any notice from the board yet. The Hindi teacher is well-learned and I don’t think that that information is correct,” he said.

One school made mistakes in checking the Sanskrit answers heets while another wrongly calculated the marks. One school made mistakes in checking Physical and Health Education (PHE) answer sheets and two wrongly calculated PHE marks.