CBSE puts secret plan into action

Updated on: Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Every exam leak is normally followed by weeks, sometimes months, of investigations. Committees study the causes, analyse the consequences and issue fresh dates for examinations but not in the case of AIEEE. The Central Board of Secondary Education might take a while to probe the disaster, but its initial response was lightning fast.

As soon as exam halls across the country were vacated, the CBSE passed on a confidential address to its coordinators in their respective city. In some cases, the address was a public sector bank; for others, it was a nearby college or a school where the second set of question papers was stored.

“We keep backup sets of question papers in strategic locations. Furthermore, there is more than one set of question papers that is kept. The locations are confidential and no one person has the exact list of all the locations,” CBSE chairman Vineet Joshi told TOI.

Sources said that the CBSE, in preparation for contingencies, had printed more than thrice the number of booklets that were required for the 11.18 lakh aspirants registered for AIEEE.

“Also, at the CBSE headquarters, we have a few copies of different question papers that can be faxed or scanned and sent to all exam centres where they can be printed in case all the sets sent nationwide get leaked,” said a source.

CBSE puts secret plan into action

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