Fair examinations: Cases registered against 10 students and invigilators

BISE implementing stricter invigilation strategy, say officials.

LAHORE:

Ten students and invigilators have been caught employing unfair means during board examinations in raids by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Lahore staff at various examination centres.

BISE Lahore public relations officer Qaiser Virk said the raids were part of a stricter invigilation and inspection policy.

He said the arrests were made in the first six days of the Intermediate Supplementary Examinations 2012.

He said students were now hiring impersonators to sit exams in their stead, due to which the board decided to inspect centres.

Four unregistered people were caught sitting the exam on Monday at the Lawrence Road examination centre. Virk said unfair means cases had been registered against all those involved.

He said around 50 inspectors were conducting surprise raids at centres. He said some of the raids were led by the board chairman himself.

He said the board had instituted stricter checks to ensure the inspectors also catch invigilators aiding the use of unfair means. He said a number of invigilators were caught accepting bribes from students during this year’s supplementary matriculation and intermediate examinations.

The BISE Lahore examinations controller on October 2 had said the invigilation staff given to the board were incompetent.

BISE Lahore responded by organising stricter invigilation training for the matriculation supplementary examinations which commenced on October 3.

BISE Lahore has also provided their inspection teams and invigilation staff a photo of each student.

BISE Lahore Chairman Nasrullah Virk said the board was determined to not allow anyone to “weaken the examination system.” On November 12, BISE Lahore reported that 5 FIRs had been registered against individuals using unfair means at examination centres at the Civil Lines police station. These include both students and invigilators.

A Civil Lines police official said both the impersonator and the person being impersonated are nominated in such an FIR. “The impersonator is taken into custody and presented before a magistrate the next day for legal proceedings,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 16^th, 2012.