BIE on the back foot over Intermediate I year results

Conduct of exams criticised with a record number of students failing this year

After record number of failures in the first year Inter exams this year, the government fears a repeat of students’ suicides, going by the outrage generated and three students already ending lives allegedly after failing in the first year exams.

Only 49% students cleared the exams and this is the lowest ever since the formation of TS. The results also showed that there was no leniency in the valuation of the answer scripts going by the steep fall in the pass percentage.

These students who entered college life for the first time had to come to terms with the examinations conducted in unusual circumstances – first taking the exam without attending a single class and later attempting a very different exam from what they had given earlier in 10th class.