Students complaining of unexpected poor results should be shown their answer scripts, the state secondary education board president has suggested in an attempt to minimise unrest over results.

The board will soon write to schools suggesting that they introduce the system of showing answer scripts of pre-board tests to aggrieved students, president Kalyanmoy Ganguly said.

swer scripts of annual exams should also be shown to students. The board will request schools to start the practice from Class I,” he said.

ever a student lodges a complaint of being unfairly awarded poor marks, the school should show him/her the answer script. This will bring down the number of protests at schools over poor results.”

It is up to the school managing committees to take the final call. Some reputable schools now follow the practice.

A group of students at Shyambazar AV School and their parents blocked Jatindra Mohan Avenue on October 16, protesting the results of the pre-board tests of classes X and XII. The next day, headmaster Manoranjan Kumar Raptan called the parents to his office and showed them the answer scripts of their children. The parents left the school convinced that their children had been fairly assessed.

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