LUCKNOW/ALLAHABAD: Over 2.15 lakh examinees skipped the UP board exams on second day (Wednesday), taking the drop out tally to 5.05 lakh in just two days. The number of students caught copying rose tremendously — by 16 on day one to 128 on day two. While Mathura leads the pack with 25 cheating cases, 19 cases of cheating by students were reported from Ballia. Both the districts have been marked as `sensitive’ for copying by the Uttar Pradesh Secondary Education Board. With nine cases, Aligarh stands at third place for cheating cases.Figures released by UPSEB showed that Hardoi district dominates the list of absentee students with 15,796 examinees skipping high school and intermediate exams on Wednesday. This is closely followed by Azamgarh with 15,388 and Hathras, with 6,077 examinees leaving the exam. Due to high number of students dropping out of the exams, UP’s deputy chief minister Dinesh Sharma paid a surprise visit at six centres in Hardoi on Wednesday.According to UPSEB officials, Sharma visited Government Inter College and Government Girls' Inter College in Hardoi, apart from some other centres in remote areas. In Alipur village, Sharma, said UP board secretary Neena Srivastava, reprimanded centre superintendent of RML Inter College for not conducting the exams smoothly. In rural centres, the CCTVs surveillance were found inadequate and non-functional.In Kaushambi district, district inspector of school (DIoS) recommended debarment of Sardar Patel Intermediate College after students were found to be engaged in mass copying at the centre. For students who appeared at this centre, the Hindi paper for class X will be held again.