Six candidates have been booked for adopting unfair practices in the ongoing board examinations of Uttarakhand Vidhyalayi Shiksha Parishad (UVSP) till Friday.
On Friday, a student of class X was found cheating by the flying squad in Udham Singh Nagar district.
The Secretary of UVSP, R D Sharma told The Pioneer that two candidates were found adopting unfair means in the Physics and Geography question papers of Class XII examination of board on Thursday.
He said that incidences of copying have reduced in recent years due to increased vigil in the examinations.
It is learnt that Uttarakhand board is keeping extra precautions in Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar districts as these districts have a history of students retorting to unfair means in the examination.
The board secretary also informed that his office has also initiated the process of evaluation of the answer sheets of the students.
The board adopts
stepwise method of
awarding marks in the examination.
The Board examination started on March 03 and would continue till April 04. A total of 168022 and 135650 candidates are enrolled in class X and XII examinations respectively and 1317 examination centres are set up for the purpose.
The UVSP has declared 245 examination centres as sensitive while 26 are under hyper sensitive category.
The UPSV is taking services of more than 22000 teachers who are deployed as invigilators in the biggest examination.
To prevent the incidences of malpractices both the education department and the Uttarakhand board have set up flying squads headed by top officers.
The district administrations have also constituted flying teams in the district and block level.