High school teachers evaluating SSLC answer scripts are surely having the much-needed comic relief.
While heartfelt pleas to make them pass are an every year phenomenon, what has left some evaluators laughing is an answer script with a detailed recipe of a “tasty” chicken curry. A student answering question 27 of the mathematics paper has written a detailed recipe of ‘chicken sambar’, which he ate a week before the exam. Another student has appealed to the evaluator to at least give him 60 marks. “I don’t understand maths. But still, I made an effort to wake up at 5.30 a.m. every morning to solve maths problems, but to no use. I feel these problems are not at all relevant and useful,” he reasoned, and said that the evaluator would be blessed by god, as he would pray for their wellbeing.
Yet another student’s answer to question 19 of the maths paper is a classic of sorts.
The answer starts with a threat of black magic, if he is not passed, and ends with another threat that he will commit suicide. He said he would be scolded by his family if he failed the exams and added that he was good in all other subjects, except maths. Manjunath H.K., president of the Karnataka State High School Assistant Masters’ Association, said photographs of these answer scripts were doing the rounds on various WhatsApp groups. He said it was a routine phenomenon every year, but questioned how they were being circulated on WhatsApp as phones are banned from evaluation centres. Director of the Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board, Yashoda Bopanna, said the answer papers were likely to have come from Ballari.
Photographs of
these answer sheets are doing the rounds
on various
WhatsApp groups
