Over 6 lakh CBSE Class 12 students take economics retest

Over six lakh Class 12 CBSE students appeared for the retest of economics paper conducted successfully today, almost a month after it was leaked leading to a nationwide protest and outrage.

The exam was conducted successfully at over 4,000 centres across the country. The candidates took the exam at the centres allotted to them earlier, a senior CBSE official said.

The CBSE had announced the re-test after reports of the leak surfaced on March 28.

Then, there were also reports of the CBSE Class 10 mathematics paper being leaked, but the board decided against a re-test of the Class 10 paper, saying the examination was "largely an internal segment" of the school education system.

For the economics paper re-exam, the board had said, "Class 12 exams are a gateway to higher education and various professional competitive exams which have limited seats... Therefore, giving undue advantage to a handful of beneficiaries of the alleged leak of the economics paper would not be in larger interest of the students."