On the first day of Madhyamik 2024, a student reported sick and had to be taken to hospital minutes after receiving her paper while another student wrote the exam from hospital bed.
The examinee failed to write her first language test.
Ramanuj Ganguly, president, West Bengal Board of Secondary Education, said the student can appear for the other papers but her results would be declared incomplete. “Any student who misses the first language test will have to clear it the next year,” he said.
Sabah Salim, 16, a student of Belgachia Urdu High School, whose exam centre was at Ultadanga Sarada Prasad Girls School, had left home without any complications.
“She was fit when she left but after some time we were informed by the school that she had fallen sick,” said her cousin, Mohammad Amanat Khan.
Sabah had shown signs of a neurological problem in her right hand a few weeks ago and was finding it difficult to write, said Khan.
“We requested the school to provide her with a writer, but we were told that the requisition for a writer had to be done much before,” Khan added.
Sabah was released from RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in the afternoon.
Another examinee, Raja Roy, a student of Guptipara High School for Boys in Hooghly, who is undergoing treatment in the haematology department of the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital wrote the Friday’s paper from his hospital ward.
Roy has been in hospital since December 26.