Nitish govt announces measures to stop cheating during exams

The Nitish Kumar government in Bihar today announced stern measures to stop cheating during matriculation exam in 2016, including delisting centres cheating in past three years.
State Education minister Ashok Choudhary told reporters that it has been decided to drop centres blacklisted for large-scale cheating in the past three years from the list of venues where matriculation examination would be conducted for nearly 16 lakh examinees in March 2016.
There are around 12 such blacklisted schools, he said.
These include the government school at Mahnar in Vaishali district whose photograph showing parents and friends scaling wall of the four-storeyed building like spiders to give chits to the examinees in March this year had gone viral giving a bad name to the state, he said.

Accompanied by Principal Secretary Education D S Gangwar, Choudhary said in case of report of mass scale copying in the 2016 Matriculation examination from any centre, responsibility would be fixed on the concerned District Education Officer and head of that centre.
In a bid to conduct a cheating-free examination, the Education minister said that exam schedule has been announced in advance of 100 days this time.

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Classes would be held regularly even after sent-up exam to complete the syllabus of class 10, the state education minister said.
On the basis of an analysis of the sent up exams marks, weakness of an examinee in a particular subject would be identified and special tutorial classes be organised in schools to lift their performance, Choudhary said.

In place of one set of model paper, five sets of model question papers would be uploaded on the website of Bihar School Examination Board to help students prepare for the final exam better.
A team of good teachers of classes 8, 9 and 10 would prepare notes for revision of every subjects which would be publised on the websites of SCERT/BSEB, the minister said.
Besides, there would be a separate coloumn seeking email address of examinee on which such notes could be provided, he added.
Such students would be provided Admit card & report card on their email ID, Choudhary added.