Inter compartmental exams from July 3; BSEB reduces scrutiny fee to Rs 70 per paper

BSEB chairman Anand Kishor

PATNA: Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) has decided to conduct intermediate compartmental examinations from July 3 to 13.

The BSEB will open its online form submission process for compartmental examinations on June 8. The last date for submission of forms is June 14.

The compartmental examinations hold significance as a large number of  students failed in the main examinations. The intermediate examinations results declared on May 30 showed that only 35.25 per cent of 12.61 lakh students failed to cross the pass barriers.

BSEB chairman Anand Kishor said here on Tuesday that the students who had failed in the two subjects could appear in the compartmental examinations.

He said BSEB had extended its compartmental examination facility to two subjects from this year keeping in view the large number of students who failed in the main examinations.

Earlier, the BSEB had restricted the facility to one subject last year.

He said the results of the compartmental examinations would be declared by the end of July. 

He said BSEB would not mention the name compartmental examination in the result cards for the benefit of the stuadents.

He said the leftover students of the main examinations, who had problems in their admit cards, could also appear in the compartmental examinations in full five subjects.

“For them it will be supplementary examinations”, he said.

It is expected that about 10000 students may appear in the supplementary examinations.

In another major decision, the BSEB has reduced the application fee for scrutiny from Rs 120 per subject to Rs 70 per subject.

It may be mentioned here that for the last one week failed students of the intermediate examinations have been staging demonstration in the state capital and other parts of the state demanding re-evaluation of the answer books at free of cost.

The BSEB has already made it clear that only scrutiny of the answer books will be carried out and no re-evaluation will be done.

Kishor said those who have already submitted Rs 120 per paper fee would get the excess amount back soon.

He said scrutiny work would begin on June 9 and in the first phase BSEB would take up the cases of the failed students who have cracked the IIT-JEE, NEET and other competitive examinations for pursuing higher education.

“We will try to declare their results by June 17”, he said.

He, however, said the scrutiny results would be announced by June 30.

He said he along with education secretary would hold a videoconferencing with the district magistrates and district education officers to streamline the scrutiny process on Wednesday at 1pm.

Regarding the vexed issue of home centre for practical examination, he said the BSEB had set up a three-member committee to study the issue. The committee consisting of BSEB secretary, vigilance officer and academic director would give its recommendations within two weeks, he added.

About the allegations that about one lakh data of the students was hacked, BSEB chairman said the Board had been maintaining its secrecy in its data. “Our data is not online, so the question of hacking does not arise”, he said.

He said the BSEB had prepared 20 de-duplication softwares to counter attempt of hacking in future.

He said the BSEB had been working to digitize all the mark sheets, certificates of the students from 1986 to 2005. The board had already done it for the students of high school and intermediate from 2006 to 2016, he added. 

Bihar Board's Intermediate arts topper Ganesh falls from grace; arrested for fraud

 Bihar Board's intermediate arts topper Ganesh Kumar

 

BSEB chairman Anand Kishor 

PATNA: Bihar Board's intermediate arts stream topper Ganesh Kumar has fallen from the grace. The police arrested Ganesh on Friday night following an FIR lodged by Bihar School Examination Board that Ganesh had forged the age certificates while enrolling for 2017 intermediate examinations.

Ganesh shook the entire education system of the state, like another topper Ruby Rai, who did in 2016, when interviewed by private TV channels he failed to justify his knowledge in music, the subject he had opted in the intermediate examinations.

During the interview Ganesh even failed to differentiate between Sur and Tal, Antra and Mukhra.

BSEB) on Friday cancelled the results and started proceedings against him and the school from which he filled up the examination form.

The BSEB chairman Anand Kishor, who was in tremendous pressure, since the TV interview exposed the topper Ganesh Kumar knowledge in music, the subject in which he got 65 marks out of 70 in practical, said that the BSEB had nullified the result of Ganesh Kumar on the charges of forgery.

“Action will be taken against him for cheating the board and he will be arrested soon”, he said.

He said action would also be taken against the Samastipur based school for hiding the facts.

Ganesh had scored 83 marks out of 100 in music.

In a hurriedly summoned Press conference, Kishor says the actual age of  Ganesh is 42 years and he has two children.

"He has cheated the board by lowering his age to 24 in connivance with the school management”, he said.

“The actual date of birth of Ganesh is November 7, 1975 and he appeared in the matric examination from a Giridih school in 1990,” he said.

Kishor said Ganesh had appeared the intermediate examination in 1992 from Jhumri Telaiya school in 1992 but he could not get it through.

“Ganesh forged his age certificate and made a new one with date of birth June 2, 1993 and got himself registered in the Samastipur school in 2015 for intermediate examination of 2017”, he said.

The BSEB has given a notice to Ganesh Kumar seeking his reply within three days.

“An FIR has already been lodged against Ganesh for forgery and against the school”, he said.

“The BSEB swung into action when the matter came to our notice. The affiliation of the school can be cancelled it they found guilty after the probe”, he said.

“The second topper, now, will be topper of the inter arts stream”, Kishor said.

Neha Kumari of Madhubani with 81.2 per cenet marks replaced Ganesh for top spot in the arts stream.

Ganesh himself stated that he had opted music as a subject for garnering maximum numbers in the intermediate examination.

Ganesh went underground after the declaration of the result on May 30 but resurfaced at his school in Samstipur district on June 1 where the TV channels took his interview.

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Jamui girl Khushbu tops intermediate examinations; Patna’s Priyanshu is commerce topper

 BSEB chairman Anand Kishor publishing the intermediate result by click of a mouse

 Commerce topper Priyanshu celebrating his moment of joy 

Students celebrating their success in intermediate examinations in Patna on May 30

Patna: Khushbu Kumari, a science stream student of Simultala Residential School (Jamui) topped the intermediate examinations of the Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) with 86.2 per cent marks as the  result was declared here on Tuesday. The result, however, turned out to be utter despair for majority of students as only 35.25 per cent of students who appeared in the examinations were declared successful.

Priyanshu Jaiswal of College of Commerce, Patna, emerged as the topper in commerce stream with 81.6 per cent marks. Ganesh Kumar of RNS College, Samastipur finished on the top of the podium with 82.6 per cent marks in the arts stream.

In the overall trend, boys outshone girls with better pass out percentage.  About 12.61 lakhs students appeared in the 2017 intermediate examinations in which 55.53 per cent boys and 44.47 per cent girls were declared successful.

The BSEB which went through an acid test in the academic session 2016-17 after the topper scam hit the headlines last year, took a series of corrective measures to curb the cheating, malpractices and use of other unfair means in the examination and the impact of these measures clearly felt on this year results.

Barring the commerce stream where the boys and girls fared well with 73.76 per cent pass, the overall percentage dipped drastically in the science and arts streams. Going by the figures, 37.13 per cent arts students and 30.11 per cent science students crossed the hurdles smoothly.

BSEB chairman Anand Ksihor said: “The examination was free of unfair means and for the first time students filled up online forms and barcode system was introduced in the answer sheets to check any kind of backdoor pushing”.

“There is no shortcut to hard work and students will have to work hard to get through the examinations of Bihar Board,” he said.

Comparing to the results of the last year, there was sharp decline in the overall results of all the three streams. Science headed the list by 30 per cent while arts witnessed a drop of 19 per cent. Commerce has registered a decline of 7 per cent.

The percentage of first division holders in all the three streams have also nosedived as only 8.93 per cent of the science students achieved the feat. The first divisioner in commerce stream was 16.29 per cent and for arts stream it was 6.74 per cent.

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Now, Bihar Board toppers will get Rs 1 lakh and laptops

PATNA: Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) has decided to enhance the prize money for its intermediate and matric examination toppers. Now, the intermediate and matric toppers will get Rs 1 lakh cash prize along with laptops.

This was decided in a meeting of the BSEB governing council here on Monday.

Earlier, the toppers of the intermediate and matric examinations have been getting Rs 25,000 and one laptop each.

The second palace holders in both the examinations will get Rs 75000 while the students stood third will get Rs 50000. They will also get laptops as received earlier.

Besides this the top three finishers will also get e book reader.

The fourth and fifth position holders of the intermediate examinations and fourth to 10th finishers of the matric examinations will also get cash awards, laptops and other prizes as they used to get earlier.

The governing council has also decided to create separate wings for different examinations the board conducts round the year.

The governing council has approved creations of separate posts of examination controller for its teachers' eligibility test (TET), diploma in elementary education examinations (two years), diploma in elementary education examinations (distance education mode) and Simultla Residential School entrance test .

As per the name of the exmiantion different section will be established in the board office.

The meeting has also approved posts to run the different sections.

No marks will be deducted on wrong questions asked in Simultala School admission test , says BSEB

Patna: Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) has decided not to deduct the marks of the students attempting wrong questions asked in the papers of Simultala Residential School admission test held recently.

The BSEB which uploaded the question papers and answer key of the test in its website recently and sought stakeholders response regarding objections with proof, has found that three questions out of 150 in class 6 question paper, 2 questions out of 150 in class 7 paper and one question out of 150 in class 9 paper were wrong.

BSEB chairman Anand Kishor said here on Friday that no marks would be deducted for attempting wrong questions.

He directed the officials of the BSEB to take disciplinary action against the paper setters and also asked to blacklist them.

He said the BSEB had formed a team of experts which would submit its report within two days and then the a fresh answer key would be uploaded on the Board's website.

In another major decision, the BSEB has suspended two officers namely Kundan Kumar Sinha and Anand Kumar of its central section for gross negligence as the Board has detected that the concerned officers had uploaded wrong answers in all four sets of papers in Board's web portal.

The BSEB has also served show cause notice to its deputy secretary Praveen Kumar in this regard and his payment of salary has been stopped.

Govt to go tough on teachers skipping copy evaluation work of intermediate, high school exams

Patna, April 13, 2017: State Government has decided to go tough on the contract teachers who have boycotted the evaluation work of high school and intermediate examinations copies of the Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) demanding equal salary for equal work.

Gopalganj district administration has sent two teachers to jail for creating disturbances in the evaluation centres. Further 7625 teachers across the state will lose their salary for disobeying the government order while show cause notices have been served to 8950 teachers.

In Patna, FIRs have been lodged against 350 teachers at Gandhi Maidan Police station and show cause notices have also been served to them.

Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) chairman Anand Kishor said teachers had also been warned of service break if they did not join the copy marking work with immediate effect.

He said all the district magistrates and district education officers were directed to complete the evaluation work of intermediate and high school examinations answer books by April 30.

He said declaring results in right time are the top priority of the BSEB. “It is very sensitive issue to play with the future of students”, he said.

Meanwhile, district education office sought the help of CBSE school teachers for the copy checking work.

It’s learnt that some teachers of the CBSE affiliated schools have joined the work.

TET online registration to begin on April 8

Patna, April 6, 2017: Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) failed to start the online registration process for Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) on Thursday as there was some technical snag developed in the system.
"There was some technical problem in the web portal on Thursday so BSEB could not start online registration process for TET", said a BSEB spokesperson.
Now, the TET online registration process will begin on April 8, a BSEB release states.
Meanwhile, AISF activists staged demonstration demanding inclusion of two-year BEd course students, who will appear in their final year examination this year in the TET.
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Bihar Board's Intermediate exams 2018 to be held from February 7 to 19; Matric exams from February 21 to 28

Patna, March 27, 2017: Bihar School Examination Board (chairman) Anand Kishor released the academic calendar of the Bihar Board announcing the dates of the Intermediate and Matric (high school) examinations of 2018 here on Monday.
This is for the first time ever, the Bihar Board has taken the initiative to declare the examination dates at the earliest and that too in the month of March. Earlier, BSEB used to announce it after October every year.
As per the schedule, the intermediate examinations will be held from February 7 to 19 while Matric examination will be held from February 21 to 28.
The BSEB has also taken the required measures to regularise academic session of Simultala Residential School. Now, the new session of this school will begin in April every year. The preliminary entrance test for 2018 session will be held on December 24 this year while the main entrance test will be held on February 4, 2018.
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BSEB employees sit on dharna for salary

Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) employees sat on dharna in protest against non payment of salary for the last five months in Patna on October 26, 2016.
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Bihar School Examination Board Class 8th examinations begin

Bihar School Examination Board Class 8th Board examinations began in different Government schools in Patna on March 30, 2016.
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Bhihar Board Matric examination passes off peacefully at Muslim High School

Students took their papers in the Bihar School Examination Board Class 10 examination at Mulsim High School hall in Patna on March 17, 2015.
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Parents, guardians, students throng examination centres

Parents, guardians and students appearing in the Bihar School Examination Board Class 10, thronged the examination centres in Patna on March 17, 2015.
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Class 10 examination of Bihar School Examination Board begins

Class 10 examination of Bihar School Examination Board began in different centres of Patna on March 17, 2015. About 14 lakhs students have been appearing in the examination across the state.
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Thousands appear in Bihar School Examination Board Intermediate Examinations

Thousands appeared in the chemistry paper examination of the Bihar School Examination Board Intermediate Examinations at different centres of Patna on February 25, 2015.
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Intermediate examination of Bihar Board begins

Thousands appeared in the Bihar School Examination Board Intermediate examination in different centres of Patna on February 18, 2015.
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12 lakh students to appear in Bihar Board Intermediate examination

Bihar School Education Board Chairman Professor Lalkeshwar Prasad held a Press conference on the preparations taken by the Board for Intermediate examinations in Patna on February 17, 2015. He said more than 12 lakh students would appear in the examinations and among them 4.79 lakh would be girl students.
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ABVP stages demonstration against price hike of BSEB model test papers

ABVP workers staged demonstration in protest against the price hike of BSEB model test papers in Patna on January 11, 2015.
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Students protest hike in model test papers price

Students staged protest demonstration at Bihar School Examination Board office against the high price of model test papers in Patna on January 10, 2015. They also ransacked the office.
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Bihar School Examination Board chairman Lal Keshwar Prasad Singh releases model test papers

Bihar School Examination Board chairman Lal Keshwar Prasad Singh released the model test papers of class 10 and 12 examinations in Patna on January 10, 2015.
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Bihar School Examination Board declares high school compartmental results

Bihar School Examination Board declared the compartmental results of the high school examinations in Patna on October 20, 2014.
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