The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Monday conducted the Class 10 English board exam. The board exam was conducted at various exam centers across India and abroad.

CBSE Class 10 English board exam was conducted from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm. Students got an additional 15 minutes to read the question paper. The paper was divided into three sections- Section A (Reading Skills), Section B (Grammar and Writing) and Section C (Literature).

CBSE Class 10 English Paper: Analysis and Difficulty Level

According to the students, the overall exam was moderately easy but it was time-consuming. As per the general feedback from students, all questions in the paper were from the prescribed syllabus and the paper pattern was in line with the latest CBSE sample paper. Students found the Literature section the easiest one. However, the reading section was quite difficult for most of the students.

CBSE Class 10 English Paper: Students’ Reactions

Dev Pandey Sonia, a student of Govt Boys Senior Secondary School, Sonia Vihar, said that Reading and writing parts of the paper were easy. He found the grammar part slightly time-consuming, otherwise, the whole paper was easy.

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Suman, a government school student said she finished the paper half an hour before the cut-off time. According to her, the literature section was the easiest of all. Even the language of the questions was not changed, she said.

Bhoomika Pandey from Jan Kalyan Sr. Sec. School said she found the paper bit lengthy. The paper was easy but time-consuming, she added.

CBSE Class 10: Marking Scheme

To pass the Class 10 English board exam, students must achieve an overall score of 33%.

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Rajasthan Police on Sunday arrested 37 people, including students, from Jodhpur in an alleged attempt to leak the REET 2023 exam. The police conducted a raid at a marriage hall early Saturday after they received the information that some students are in an attempt to leak teachers’ recruitment examination.

According to the reports, the police raided Udaygarh Marriage Palace in the Mandore area just hours before the exam was due to be held following a tip-off that the question paper was being leaked to some students who were staying there. All these students had to appear in the first shift of the examination.

Amrita Duhan, DCP East, stated that the questionnaire found from those arrested did not match the actual question paper, and that further investigation was underway.

According to Duhan, the police seized a laptop, a printer, and some papers with answers. The gang’s leader, Suresh Thori, who is from Raimalwada in the Osian tehsil, claimed to have bought the paper from Praveen Bishnoi of Jalore for Rs 40 lakh and had paid Rs 10 lakh in advance. Bishnoi is absconding as of now.

She said that Thori had allegedly entered a deal with the students to provide the papers to them for Rs 3 lakh to 8 lakh.

Duhan also stated that the marriage hall’s manager and owner, as well as a computer operator named Mukesh Joshi and three other people who were assigned to solve the paper, have all been arrested.

Duhan said the accused have been booked under Sections 420 (cheating) and 120 B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and 10 (2) of the Rajasthan Public Examination Act.

The REET Mains exam is being conducted for the recruitment of 48,000 third-grade teachers. Reportedly, around 2 lakh candidates appeared for the morning shift, and nearly 9 lakh were expected to appear for the afternoon shift.

Like every year, this year too the Rajasthan Eligibility Examination (REET) 2023 exam paper was leaked on Saturday amid the internet outage in the state, reports said.

The Rajasthan Subordinate and Ministerial Services Selection Board (RSMSSB) kick-started the REET 2023 exam today and despite strict internet shutdown in 11 districts of Rajasthan, the paper was leaked.

REET 2023 exam paper leaked

Reports said the Rajasthan Police arrested a gang of four-five people on the first day of the Rajasthan Third Grade Teacher Recruitment Exam and the accused gang was nabbed in a banquet hall writing the REET paper in the Jodhpur district of Rajasthan.

Police have taken the accused into custody and a probe is underway.

Reports further said dummy candidates were also nabbed by SOG officials in Amer and Jhunjhunu apart from the REET paper leak.

The State Government and RSMSSB directed the authorities to shut down internet services in the state on February 25 and 26. On February 27, 2023, internet services will be shut down from 6 am to 6 pm in Jaipur, Ajmer, Bhilwara, Alwar, Bikaner, Kota, Jodhpur, Sirganganagar, Bharatpur, Udaipur, and Tonk.

REET 2023 exam is being carried out for a total of 48,000 seats for third-grade teachers across the state. The REET exam will be conducted in two shifts morning and afternoon and will begin at 9: 30 am. The afternoon shift will begin at 3 pm.

REET 2022 exam paper leak

REET 20222 exam paper was also leaked ahead of the exam which triggered a massive political controversy on social media.

Rajasthan’s School Education Minister BD Kalla had denied that the REET 2022 exam papers got leaked which was held in multiple shifts on July 23 and 24, 2023.

BJP’s Rajya Sabha MP Kirodi Lal Meena shared pictures of the question paper and asked how the question paper which was meant to be returned by the candidates to the examiners was circulated on social media.

Following this, Kalla denied the claim and said the REET exams were conducted in a transparent manner under a committee headed by the Chief Secretary at the state level and with District Magistrates and the Superintendent of Police at the district level.