50 Sangrur students flunk physical education exam

Parvesh Sharma

Tribune News Service

Sangrur, May 17

Of the 99 students of Government Senior Secondary School (Boys) here, 50 have flunked Class XII’s physical education exam. To the surprise of the teachers, these students have cleared English and math exams.

And those who cleared the physical education exam scraped through by getting 13 marks in theory.

A student needs 13 marks out of 40 to pass the theory paper; 10 marks are for assessment and 50 for the practical exam. Liberal marking in assessment and practical exams brings into question the role of the school authorities in masking the deficiencies in the system.

For instance, a student got two marks in theory, but 42 in practical. Another student secured three marks in theory and 38 in practical.

PHE lecturer Kuldeep Singh was on leave today, while he could not be contacted on his mobile phone.

“It is for the first time that several students have flunked the physical education exam. We have written to the PSEB for reviewing the result as we believe there’s a typing error in the result,” said RK Singla, school principal.

Class XII re-appear exam on June 23

Chandigarh: State Education Minister Aruna Chaudhary on Wednesday announced that the re-appear exam of Class XII would be conducted on June 23 with a view to “saving the precious year of the students getting compartment”. The minister said 63,000 students had failed in a subject and have got compartment result. The minister said that earlier only science stream re-appear exam used to be conducted early, but this new decision would be applicable to students of all streams of Class XII. The result would be declared in 10 days and the exam centres would be made at the sub-divisional level. TNS