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HYDERABAD: Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education (TSBIE) on Sunday clarified that the students who committed or attempted suicide, after intermediate results were declared, was ‘purely based on their poor academic performance in few subjects and it was not related to mistakes due to technical & result processing errors’.

The board conducted a comprehensive analysis of answer scripts of students who have committed suicide and found that none of them were linked to error in publication of results.

According to a press release by TSBIE, a committee consisting of subject experts was constituted to verify errors in evaluation, posting and totaling of marks.

“A total of 53 answer scripts of failed students who committed/attempted suicide were re-verified by the selected regular lecturers of respective subjects. It was observed that there was no remarkable change in the result of the students after re-verifying,” stated the press release.

The analysis indicated that of the 25 students who committed/attempted suicide, 10 had failed in one subject, 12 in more than one subject, three despite passing the examination. In total, 22 students committed suicide and three attempted suicide.

The board found that in a particular case, a student committed suicide despite scoring 85% and an ‘A’ grade. In another case, a student committed suicide after writing third paper thinking that she would fail while in fact she had passed in all subjects which she attempted.

Officials opined that in-depth analysis of all cases must be conducted by an expert committee and necessary measures should be initiated to avoid future suicide cases.

Meanwhile, the Telangana State Technology Services selected Data Tech MethodEx Pvt Ltd as the new agency to process re-verification/recounting (RV/RC) results in tandem with Globarena. The RV/RC process is being conducted at 12 spot valuation centres across the state.

“Based on the report of the three member committee, a new agency has been selected by the TSTS to update the data online and process result. The committee has indicated that both Globarena and the new agency will process the result parallelly and independently so that there won’t be any error in result declaration,” stated the press release.

The release further added that the result will be declared by May 10. “Further scanned copy of these answer scripts will be available for download within 15 days of declaration of results,” stated the release.

