Gujarat board fails 670 students in Class 10 exams after finding large-scale discrepancy in marks

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat school examination board has failed 670 students who appeared for Class 10 exams in March, after finding large scale discrepancy in marks obtained in objective and descriptive questions. While these students were found to have obtained over 80 percent marks in objective type questions — or 40 and above out of 50 — their marks in descriptive type questions in the same subjects were less than 5 out of 50. These 670 students were found to be lacking in basic knowledge in their subjects in which they got high marks in objective type questions, following which the GSHSEB failed them in those subjects. “As many as 670 students obtained more than 80 per cent marks in objective type questions, but scored less than 4-5 marks out of 50 in descriptive type questions.