The question papers of two more SSC subjects — biology and higher mathematics — under the Dinajpur education board were leaked onThursday. The board soon scrapped the questions prepared for the biology and higher mathematics exams but did not postpone the exams as they have enough time to set new questions within the scheduled dates. Earlier on Wednesday, it postponed four exams of mathematics, physics, agriculture studies and chemistry — after question papers for English exams were leaked at a centre in Kurigram’s Bhurungamari upazila.
The board announced new dates for the four exams that were postponed on Wednesday. Police on Wednesday arrested three teachers of the school for their alleged involvement in leaking the question papers. Police said all those who were involved with the leak would be brought under the purview of the law.
The leaking out of question papers, in any public recruitment examination, is not new in the country. It has become a common phenomenon in all public examinations that questions are leaked prior to the exam. A group of people manage to leak these questions through their political and economic connections. It is an unethical practice spreading out in our society day by day. Students who are passing their exams by help of leaked question papers are cheating themselves as well as the nation. First of all, they are passing exams without study and hard work and getting good results, whereas the really talented students are going through the rigour of preparation to get good results. This is a direct form of discrimination. The students who pass through cheating are getting jobs in important sectors that are in need of qualified personnel, not these cheats.
We must say the recruitment of honest teachers is the main propeller of ensuring quality education. Suspected persons related to question leakage should be fired from jobs immediately and criminal cases should be filed. Both the leakers as well as the receivers are culprits. Network jamming devices should be used to protect illegal use of electronic devices in the area of the examination hall.
