The Uttar Pradesh Board Examination results were declared on Sunday. Many schools have got the ‘zero result’ tag.Yes,150 schools scored the ‘perfect zero’ – meaning no student studying in these schools in Class 10 and Class 12 was able to pass the exam.Of these 150 government as well as aided schools, total 98 schools failed to clear the exams in the high school class, while as many as 52 schools failed in Class 12 exam.
The main reason behind this rare phenomenon is the strict measures that were taken this time by the government for keeping a vigilance, CCTV cameras were installed at centres. The sources reported that due to such stringent measures, many teachers also did not indulge in fraudulent practices this time and a lot of students dropped the examinations due to the fear of getting caught.
The district with the maximum number of schools getting the ‘zero result’ tag is Ghazipur.The list is followed by Allahabad and Azamgarh, where six each school reported zero results. Other districts that reported zero results included Hardoi, Bahraich, Mau and Mirzapur, Agra, Aligarh, Lucknow, Kannauj, and Gorakhpur, etc.
The UP Education Board for the first time implemented strict anti-copying measures this year, forcing those who totally depend upon copying to either quit from appearing in the exam or failing in it.
The government had installed CCTV cameras across 8,000 examination centres all over the state and had constituted a special task force to mitigate the chances of mass copying.
Rajnish Shukla of Fatehpur and Akash Maurya of Barabanki secured the first position with 466 marks each (93.2 percent) in the Class-12 exam, while Anjali Verma topped the Class-10 exam with 96.33 percent.
