Govt denies claims of question leak
The government has dismissed allegations of question leak in the ongoing primary terminal examinations, but parents yesterday said they had sample questions reportedly leaked from mathematics paper to be held tomorrow.
The parents claimed they had started getting the "leaked" questions since Thursday night.
"The questions we are getting include two creative, eight short, five subjective and two geometry questions," a guardian from Mohammadpur told The Daily Star over phone.
Asked how he had got the sample questions, the parent who wished to remain unidentified said he had got those from a parent of another student.
"You know many parents and guardians are getting such questions nowadays," he added.
How such sample questions get circulated remains a mystery. "If the samples turn out to be the real questions, it will just destroy the nation," said another guardian from Eskaton.
She said she had also heard reports from other parents about getting such questions.
"We don't know why this is happening to us and our children," she lamented.
Earlier, parents alleged they had got sample questions for Bangla, Bangladesh and global studies, and preliminary science and found significant similarities between those and the real ones after the exams.
Even on Sunday night, a mobile court jailed three teachers for one year each for distributing Bangla questions to the candidates at their respective coaching centres in Bogra.
Most of the public examinations have recently been hit hard by the allegations of question leak. Apart from the primary terminal exams, there were widespread allegations that questions of a number of papers in this year's HSC and SSC examinations had been leaked.
The government even had to cancel the exam for English second paper of the HSC upon allegations of question leak.
Parents alleged sample questions went viral in some Facebook pages before each exam day.
However, the government has kept denying such allegations. On Tuesday, Primary and Mass Education Minister Mostafizur Rahman said they did not get official report on any question leak.
The primary terminal exams began on November 23 with around 31 lakh class V students of schools and madrasas participating.
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