Ludhiana: An inquiry has been marked a day after a couple of students had to skip their Class X (open school) Punjabi examination on Monday due to Punjab School Education Board’s (PSEB) goof-up. The admit card issued to these students mentioned the examination time from 2pm to 5.15pm, however, the exam was conducted from 11am to 2.15pm at 20 examination centres in the district.
Janak Raj Mehrok, controller of PSEB, said, “An inquiry has been marked and then we will see the report. The exam will be rescheduled for students who missed it on Tuesday. The exam will be conducted after all exams will be over.” The PSEB has asked the students to represent the case so that they can reschedule the exam for them.
Mehrok stated that the issue might have taken place during the trial run for the website and the students might have got the old roll numbers issued during the testing of the website. Later, the students were issued new roll numbers and had to download these. The students might have downloaded those old roll numbers, which were invalid as we had issued new roll numbers.”
After October 20, the board had issued new roll numbers to students and they were asked to download the same from the board’s website.
Owing to this goof-up, when four students reached the examination centre set up at RS Model Senior Secondary School, Shastri Nagar, at 1.45 pm and were denied entry by the school authorities, which informed them that the exam had already been conducted from 11am to 2.15pm. The students were then asked to go home.
A student said, “I had downloaded the admit card last week from the board website and the exam timing printed on it was 2pm to 5.15pm, so I reached the centre at 1.30pm. But the school authorities did not allow me to appear for the exam. I had to miss the exam due to the board’s apathy.”
JP Bhatt, spokesperson of joint action front, associated schools, Punjab, said, “Many students missed their exam on Tuesday and the same issue was reported from two-three other centres. The authorities must reschedule the exam for these students.”