The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) reportedly confronted a Class XII student who said he had applied for re-evaluation. While the student, Vedant Shrivastava, claimed that his overall marks increased by only two marks – one in mathematics and one in computer science, CBSE said his marks in physics also increased by nine marks.
“I got my re-evaluation results. I applied for 11 questions and got only 2 marks in the re-evaluation results,” Shrivastava said in a video he shared on Sunday.
According to the news agency that IThe CBSE later rejected Shrivastava’s latest claims of irregularities in the revaluation results, calling them “factually incorrect” and a “blatant lie”. The Board also stated that 99.7 per cent of the applications received for re-evaluation after the announcement of Class 12 results have been processed and those pending applications are in the final stages of review.
Vedant counter for CBSE
After reports of CBSE rejecting Vedant’s claims surfaced on social media, the student made another counter, saying that the nine-mark increase in physics that the board was referring to had not been increased through the re-evaluation process.
“These are my real marks which you did not give me earlier because you exchanged my answer sheet and two marks were increased by one mark each in Computer Science and Mathematics,” Vedant said in a tweet.
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Who is Vedant Shrivastava?
Vedant Shrivastava was recently earlier at the center of another controversy after he reported an error in a physics exam paper. CBSE released the Class 12 exam results on May 13. Days later on May 19, Vedant said he had received “unexpectedly low grades” in physics and claimed that when he received scanned copies of his papers, he realized that the physics answer sheet linked to his name number did not belong to him.
“I studied for a whole year. I sacrificed sleep, peace of mind, outings and everything for these exams. And now I don’t even know if my actual physics paper was checked or not. Do students really deserve this?” he said in a post on X on May 23.
His post appeared at a time when several other students were pointing out inconsistencies with the On-Screen Marking (OSM) assessment system. However, his post became the subject of offensive comments online, with some users even calling it “anti-national” and even “Pakistani”.
However, the marks given to him soon received an online backlash and Vedant received massive support, including from Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, who said: “A 17-year-old boy, whose answer sheet was wrongly graded, took to social media in the hope of justice. But instead of help, he was abused – the BJP’s IT cell called him ‘anti-national’, described him as a ‘Soros agent’, and part of the ‘deep state’.”
Vedant claims on physics paper
As he claimed on Sunday that his grades increased by only two marks after the revaluation results, he also referred to the CBSE paper which he had previously claimed was misplaced. “In the answer sheet that was exchanged, my marks did not go up at all. The only two marks I got in addition to that were in my mathematics and computer science papers,” Shrivastava said in the video.
CBSE has announced the phased release of Class 12 verification and re-evaluation results on June 21.
