Students always on the receiving end |
A friend shared with me his daughter's result card for the ninth class issued by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education. Even a cursory glance at the result card compels the reader to note the glaring discrepancy: a C grade in the subject of Urdu despite an A in each of all other subjects. The student complained of some lapse in the evaluation of her paper, as she had done the paper equally well. The father informed me that he knew a case where a student failed in all major subjects but got sixty out of seventy-five marks in Urdu.
The father consoled his daughter with the assurance that they would apply for the rechecking of the answer sheet, and he did that online the very next day. A date was given to them when the student could see her answer sheet, whether it was checked properly or not. Both father and daughter reached the examination board by public transport on the stipulated date. When the student looked at her answer sheet, she was startled to find that one question had not been marked at all, while the other questions were merely........