Barisal Govt Girls' School Admission Test
<i>Scrutiny turns results upside down</i>
Frustrated over revised results in the class-III (morning shift) admission test of Barisal Government Girls' School, children accompanied by their guardians demonstrate in front of the deputy commissioner's office in Barisal yesterday demanding reinstatement of the previous results. Photo: STAR
Frustrated children accompanied by their guardians surrounded the Barisal deputy commissioner's office yesterday after revised admission test results of class-III (morning shift) of Barisal Government Girls' School showed 35 earlier allowed children as failed and 35 earlier failed ones as allowed. The district administration declared the fresh admission test results yesterday, after scrutiny following serious complaints of irregularities regarding the admission test results announced on December 27. After the revised result sheets were put up at Barisal Government Zila School campus at 11:00am under police and Rab protection, the 35 'frustrated' children broke into tears, while their guardians became agitated. They brought out a procession on city roads and later besieged Barisal DC office demanding a fresh admission test or maintaining the earlier declared results. However the law enforcers moved them away from the spot. Talking to journalists, the aggrieved guardians claimed that the district administration and school managing committee in the name of re-scrutiny did more irregularities and victimised 35 children and their guardians. They vowed to go to court against the decision of the district administration. Barisal Deputy Commissioner SM Arifur Rahman said the problem was created due to fault during data entry of the result in the computer. Following complaints of irregularities from many guardians, the district administration decided to re-scrutinise the examination papers of class-III (morning shift) admission test of Barisal Government Girls' School and found that 35 children scoring 83-96 marks were declared as failed while 35 others scoring 5-20 declared as passed in the test. "We decided to revise the result as there was mistake due to technical faults during data entry in computer," the DC said, adding, "We are transparent. Guardians are also allowed to check the examination papers by paying a fee of Tk 100 within seven days of publication of the result."
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