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Dear Parents of Children Who Recently Gave CBSE and/or NEET exams,

This is a difficult time for many of you. I sympathise. As an educator, I too understand the levels of stress you and your kids must be experiencing.

As if giving CBSE Class 12 board exams and the subsequent race to enter a good college weren’t stressful enough, you are now having to also grapple with the fallout of CBSE’s sudden switchover to onscreen marking. It is now painfully obvious that this new system of scoring test sheets online was not adequately thought through nor prepared for. 

Far too many students are finding they have not received the kinds of marks they should have. Their scanned answer papers are blurry and unreadable and have been scored wrongly or arbitrarily. Add to this the opposition’s grave allegations of impropriety regarding the selection of the company conducting the onscreen marking. (Most strikingly, some of the earliest concerns about the legality and validity of the process came from school students themselves, who identified significant procedural lacunae.)

Things are not much better with the NEET exam papers which have been leaked yet again, causing massive distress for over 22 lakh students.

This may not be easy for you to hear but in many ways you, dear parents, have played a significant role in bringing about the sorry state of affairs your children find........

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