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The BSECB asks the Class 12 toppers to give a retest.
The Bihar state board decided to conduct a re-test for the students after the toppers of Bihar were unable to answer the questions related to their subjects.
After the class 12 board results came out, the country witnessed many school and state toppers. But it came as a shock to people when the students from Patna failed to answer the questions related to their own subjects.
Rubi Kumari, who topped Bihar Board’s Class 12 (Arts) examination, said in an interview that political science is a subject concerned with cooking. She also failed to pronounce it correctly and called it ‘prodical science’.
Saurabh Sresth, who topped the Intermediate exams in science, did not have basic knowledge about the subject. When asked, he said that aluminium is the most reactive element of the Periodic Table. When asked about sodium (which is the most reactive element) and its electron configuration, he failed to reply.
The board conducted retest after the interviews went viral. 13 top performers of class 12 were asked to give a retest. The performance of 11 of the 13 students who took the retest were found up to the mark, said a source from the state board.
The Bihar School Examination Board cancelled the results of Saurav Srestha and Rahul Raj, both from the science stream and students of Vaishali’s Vishnu Roy College after they failed the re-test.
Top performer in Arts from the same college, Ruby Rai, who could not appear for the retest because of “depression” has been given a week to appear for it, failing which her result would stand cancelled.
The board has also suspended the recognition of Vishnu Roy College with a notice. There are allegations that the college’s director had political links and ran a racket to produce good results in state board exams.
Bihar Education Minister Ashok Kumar Choudhary told The Sunday Express: “Of 13 toppers, results of two stand cancelled as the experts committee found they did not deserve to be among the toppers.”
Choudhary confirmed that the board has suspended Vishnu Roy College’s recognition and served it a showcause notice.
"We are not going to stop at this. A three-member committee will be set up on Monday to investigate why a particular college has been producing extraordinary results and whether board officials, employees and teachers are part of an alleged education racket. Once the culprits are identified, they would face FIR and might lose their jobs as well,” Choudhary said. BSEB chairman Lalkeshwar Prasad added that there could be judicial inquiry into the matter by a committee headed by a retired Patna High Court judge.