The fate of thousands of Intermediate second year physics students who had missed the “improvement exam” on May 16 due to lack of hall tickets is uncertain in spite of the AP High Court directing the Board of Intermediate Education to conduct a re-exam for them a week ago. Students are tensed as there has been no resp-onse so far from either the state government or the BIE over conducting a re-exam. With the Eamcet ranks set to be announced by June 15, where 25 per cent weightage will be given to Inter marks, these students will be at loss as a majority of them had scored low marks in physics. The BIE also has fresh plans to appeal in the HC against the earlier order.
Many of these students had failed or had secured fewer marks than they thought they would score in the physics paper. The failure rate for the subject had been 31 per cent. Due to protests from students and parents, the government had been forced to give a second chance to students who were allowed to appear for an “improvement exam”. Over 1.9 lakh students had applied for the re-exam. However, thousands of candidates could not take the re-exam on May 16 as they had failed to download the hall tickets from the BIE website.
While the BIE blamed the college managements for not remitting the exam fees on time, the managements blamed technical problems in the BIE’s online system that made uploading the fee details of the students tough. Ultimately, it resulted in over 30,000 students failing to take the re-exam.