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Questions were raised over CBSE’s new On-Screen Marking (OSM) system when class 12 student Vedant Srivastava was shown a copy of another student’s Physics answer sheet instead of his own. Vedanta made this discrepancy public, after which CBSE admitted that the answer sheet had been changed and later provided them the original copy. After this his marks also increased. Now a new controversy has come to light in this matter.
A circular has gone viral on social media, in which words like “Blatant Lie” have been used. However, the biggest question is who is being called an outright liar? What about Vedanta, which said it gained only 2 marks in the re-evaluation? Not only this, this viral circular has also not been officially confirmed yet. Neither CBSE has taken responsibility for it nor sources in the Education Ministry are considering it as their document. In such a situation, this whole matter is raising many questions.
Question 1: What is the claim of Vedanta?
Vedanta says that after re-evaluation they have increased only two points. According to him, there has been an increase of 1 mark in Mathematics and 1 mark in Computer Science, while not a single mark has increased in Physics after re-evaluation.
Question 2: Then where did the talk of increasing by 11 points come from?
In a circular going viral on social media, it has been claimed that the total marks of Vedanta have increased by 11 and their subject wise marks have also been written in it. However, this circular has not been officially confirmed yet.
Question 3: What are Vedant and his father saying on this?
Vedant and his father say that the 9 marks which were increased in Physics were not because of re-evaluation, but after the mistake of swapping answer sheets came to light. He says that the marks were corrected only when he got his oral answer sheet. Therefore, he claims that it is not correct to call those 9 points an increase due to re-evaluation.
Question 4: Who issued this viral circular?
This is the biggest question of this entire controversy. Till now CBSE has not taken responsibility for this viral circular. At the same time, sources in the Education Ministry have also refused to release it. In such a situation, the question arises that if this circular was not issued by CBSE nor by the Ministry of Education, then how are the subject wise marks of Vedanta mentioned exactly in it?
Question 5: Did Vedanta itself make its numbers public?
Vedanta says that they never made their subject wise marks public. He claims that he neither shared his marks on social media nor through any other medium.
Question 6: Were they informed before making the marks public?
Vedanta says that it neither received any call nor any email informing it that its subject wise marks will be made public. He says that he got this information directly after the viral circular came to light.
Question 7: What is the family saying now?
Vedant’s father Sanjay says that if his son did not make his marks public then how did his personal information come out? He says that making public the subject wise marks of a student is a serious matter. He also said that till now no contact has been made by CBSE regarding this entire matter and he is considering taking legal action.
What are the biggest questions?
- Who is being called a blatant liar by saying “Blatant Lie”?
- Who issued the viral circular?
- If it is not official then how are the subject wise marks of Vedanta recorded exactly in it?
- If the student did not make his marks public then how did his personal information get out?
- If this document is official then who will take responsibility for it?
- This is not just a matter of “number 11 vs number 2”, but a dispute related to change of copy, re-evaluation, data privacy and authenticity of the viral circular.
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