Knowledge of toppers in Bihar class 12 not upto the mark - to sit for exams again

Bihar education department is embarrassed - toppers of its class 12 exam apparently know very little about the subjects that they studied.An example is a 17-year-old who mispronounced 'political science' and called it prodigal science. She managed to score 88.8% in spite of the fact that she believes political science is a subject which deals with food.
A second example is of a boy who scored 485 marks out of 500 but who had no knowledge of the periodic table - he could not answer questions related to electron and proton.
This has been reported in news18.com dated 2 June 2016.

The board has now stayed the results of class 12 science and arts toppers and have decided to conduct their interviews while a special team will re-evaluate their answer sheets. Moreover, an embarrassed Bihar government has asked the 10 top scorers among the nearly 15 lakh students in Bihar to take another exam within the next week.
In the opinion of state Education Minister, it appears that either proxies had sat for the exam or the answer sheets submitted by the students were replaced at a later date. He admitted that there has been lapses.
Incidentally, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had boasted about a crackdown on cheating that had brought the pass percentage in this year's board exams down to 44. This year, examinations were conducted with strict vigil. In spite of that, the results indicate that undeserving students have not only passed but have topped the exams.


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