BENGALURU: The question paper of II year
pre-university Chemistry exams
were leaked even before it started, this exam was scheduled at 1,032 exam centres in Karnataka on Monday.
Pallavi Akurathi, director of Department of Pre-university Education (DPUE) told TOI that on the condition of anonymity a student from a city-based college submitted a handwritten questions of the Chemistry question paper to DPUE before the exam started on Monday morning. "Out of the 37 questions in Chemistry question paper, 36 questions are leaked. We have considered this issue seriously. We are going to file a complaint at Malleswaram police station to find out the source of the leakage of the question paper." she said. DPUE revealed the leakage of question paper at 6.50pm.
A group of II PUC students residing in Banashankari and Koramangala told TOI that they got different questions carrying more than 35 marks around 6am itself the same questions with the same serial number were in the question paper also. The exam was scheduled between 9am to 12.15pm. These students alleged that the leaked questions were making rounds on WhatsAPP from 6am itself.
DPUE has ordered a departmental investigation to find out the source of the leakage. As a preliminary step for conducting fair and impartial enquiry regarding the sources of leakage, chief superintendents and joint chief superintendents who were entrusted the supervision of conducting the examination at SASM PU College for Women, Bellary and Government PU College, Kolar have been suspended.
Over 6.5 lakh students have registered for II year PU exams.
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