It is really puzzling: a mistake is recognized – but since it was done by a person whose job is to check others’ mistakes, the mistake is authorized.
Can it be really true?
My wife’s niece appeared for her 12th in Tamilnadu State Board exam this year. When she got her marks, she was worried and surprised, since she was surely expecting more. So, after a lot of deliberations, she applied for re-evaluation (or whatever) of a few subjects.
When she had a look at the xerox copy of one of the papers, she was relieved to realize that the totalling was wrong and the correct totalling would yield an additional six marks.
End of the story?
No.
She has been informed by the Board that the mistake cannot be accepted since the special invigilator (who verifies a few papers at random to see if the teachers who correct the paper do the job correctly) has cleared the correction – and hence
NO CORRECTION CAN BE DONE ANY MORE.
Can we believe it?
