A number of unsucessful candidates of a school in the city demonstrated before the office of West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education Wednesday demanding re-evaluation of their answer scripts.
About 50 examinees of Ashoknagar High School in Tollygunge area of the city took part in the protest organized by All India Democratic Students Organisation (AIDSO), which is affiliated to the Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist).
They claimed that 130 of them had been declared failed in the recently announced higher secondary results which was unexpected.
A spokesman of the school said 130 of the 150 candidates failed the higher secondary examination this year but refused to comment on the agitation by the students.
The gaurdian of one of the students said the "faulty results" were the fallout of "hasty and improper evaluation by the council."
Expressing support for the candidates, an AIDSO leader said the hasty publication of results without proper evaluation will affect the careers of many candidates.
"We demand that the Council and the state government consider the sad situation faced by many HS candidates," AIDSO state secretary Manishankar Patnaik said on Monday.
Several students of the institute had blocked the road in front of the school building on Monday.
Council sources said there was no complaint about assessment of papers which was done in a scientific manner as per the advise of experts.
The high percentage of successful candidates proved that there was no unfair treatment of the students, he said.
However, if the students individually applied for review of a particular answer script of a subject the council will consider it as per the established norms, the sources said.
An all-time high of 90.13 per cent candidates in West Bengal cleared this year's Class 12 state board examinations, results of which were announced on July 17.
A total of 7,61,583 candidates had appeared for the higher secondary examinations in the state this year. Of them 6,80,057 were successful, the sources said. PTI SUS KK
