Girl in top 10 reportedly missed chemistry exam

GUWAHATI: A girl in southern Assam’s Silchar town made it to the top 10, two days after she was wrongly reported to have skipped the chemistry exam. Meanwhile, a boy who secured ninth position revealed he got 94 marks in math without appearing for the exam .

Teachers in Silchar’s Holy Cross Higher Secondary School could not believe that Dayeeta Pushpa Swami failed to make it to the merit list when the class 12 results were declared on May 30. “She is one of our brightest students, and I knew there was something wrong somewhere,” Sister Caron, the school’s principal said.

Dayeeta was not the only candidate from the school marked absent for the exam. Six others were also marked absent in physics exam while a seventh was noted down as an absentee in the math exam.

The faux pas was discovered after the school authorities, egged on by Dayeeta’s parents, contacted Cachar College, the examination centre in Silchar.

Her parents – Abjijit and Jonaki Swami – flew to Guwahati and took up the matter with ASHEC officials.

A review of the answer sheets showed Dayeeta scored 95 in chemistry. A rule that allows examiners to count a candidate’s best marks in three subjects helped her take the eighth position alongside two others.

She had aggregated 463 marks out of 500, but her total jumped to 475 after evaluation of the chemistry paper.