Kerala Pareeksha Bhavan yet to rectify errors

KOCHI: The fate of hundreds of SSLC students hang in balance with the education department failing to take concrete measures to rectify errors in their results declared by education minister P. K. Abdu Rabb on Monday.

Mr Rabb told Deccan Chronicle that a wrong CD was initially given to the public relations department which led to the confusion and a corrected CD was supplied later. He said that contents of the first CD were uploaded initially.

Director of public instruction Gopalakrishna Bhat, when specific cases of anomalies in what they call revised list was pointed out later, conceded to DC that the grades of over 2,000 students were missing from their scorecard.

He said that such scorecards show RAL (result to be announced later) status and they are being rectified.

He also said that the issue of students not being eligible for higher studies despite having the required grades from D+ onwards have been corrected.

“This occurred due to a linking problem in the software which has been corrected,” Bhat told DC. A random verification by this reporter proved it correct.

Teachers said a large number of such cases were rectified while some remain.

However, sources in the education department said the database of results remain corrupted with anomalies in grades of different subjects, register numbers and the number of schools having 100 percent success.

The DPI said Kozhikode replaced Kannur as the top performing district yesterday itself when the revised CD came.

The education minister first declared Kannur as the top performing district. The same was the case of subject-wise results.

“There are no other anomalies,” he said. Teachers said they were still receiving complaints about several anomalies, especially with regard to awarding grace marks. “I have got information that several answer scripts are still to be valued while the scores of several students are still to be uploaded,” said N. Sreekumar, general secretary of All-Kerala School Teachers Union.