Wrong question papers distributed to board examinees

KANPUR: Confusion, chaos and mismanagement marked the beginning of Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad (UP board) exams on Friday. The day one of the high-school and intermediate exams witnessed utter mismanagement, although no case of cheating was reported from any of the 202 centres of the district.
Sources said the process of distribution of question papers to exams centres was done even till the exam day.The delay in arrival of question papers led to the late commencement of exams at various centres.
Deendayal Uphadhyay Intermediate College, DMK Intermediate School and Kanpur Vidya Mandir were the few colleges where exams were delayed due to late distribution of question papers. A bizarre complaint was received from Juhari Devi Girls' Intermediate School where the high school's home-science question papers were replaced by another set of papers of Science.
After chaos and complaints made by students, the school authorities changed the question papers and also warned the students not to disclose the matter to anybody. A student of Juhari Devi Girls' College said on the condition of anonymity, said, "We were given science question papers instead of home-science. Also, the school authorities cautioned the students not to reveal the matter to anybody."
A student said he was given the paper of elementary maths instead of maths. The district inspector of schools (DIOS) admitted that four students were given maths question paper instead of elementary maths.
The officials refused to comment on the action he would be taking against the centre for this lapse.
He added that the DIOS authorities are doing their best to clamp down on such activities. Talking to TOI, Lakshmi Khanna, principal of Juhari Devi Girls' Inter College initially denied of any mismanagement in distributing question papers, but later admitted that by mistake, four students given the maths question paper instead of elementary maths. Khanna added, "But as the subjects and syllabi of both the papers are quite similar, the students successfully solved the question papers."
But the principal denied that science paper was distributed instead of home science. One case of shortage of question papers of class XII physics was reported from Harsahay Jagdamba Inter College.