Bihar class 12 toppers to re-appear for test today

June 03, 2016 08:47

A day after the Bihar School Examination Board put on hold the results of the toppers of Arts and Science streams of class X11 examination, the first seven rank holders of the two streams will re-appear for test today following media expose on some of their purported inability to answer basic questions.

"A total of 14 toppers, first seven rank holders each of Arts and Science streams have been called for a written exam as well as interview by a team of experts on June 3 to verify the truth of the results. Their results were also put on hold," BSEB Secretary Harihar Nath Jha said, adding that the decision was taken on Wednesday evening.

Those summoned for re-exam includes Arts topper in the state's current plus-two examination Ruby Rai and Science stream topper Saurabh Kumar, he said.

Some news channels had earlier shown the girl who topped the state government's plus two examination in Humanities had purportedly pronouncing 'Political Science' as 'Prodigal Science' and describing it as a subject related to cooking. Similarly, the boy who topped in Science was purportedly unaware of electron and proton.

Both toppers hailed from the Bishun Rai college in Bhagwanpur in Vaishali district. The institution had courted controversy last year as well when the then Education Minister P K Shahi had ordered withholding its results following complaints of large-scale irregularities.

Image: Hajipur's Ruby Ray has scored 444 out of 500 marks in her intermediate exams but she was clueless when asked some basic questions about her core subjects. "Prodigal (read political) science is about cooking ," she said when asked what political science is all about.

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