CBSE Class 12 Economics re-exam 2018: Students say paper easier than before

NEW DELHI: About six lakh Class 12 students of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) across the country appeared for the re-examination for economics paper today. The examination was held at around 4,000 centres across the country.

As per initial reports, today's paper was easier than the paper conducted on March 26.

"Students said the paper was much easier than the previous one," said Kalpana Diwedi, principal, St Joseph High School, Panvel.


"The paper was trickier than last time. It took a while to get some answers and had to search for them in the questions," said Yogesh Bhadauria, Bal Bhavan Public School, Delhi.

Mamta Bhattacharya, Principal, KV, IIT Powai, said, "Good question paper, we hope everyone will Good marks. Direct questions and not very difficult."

"This paper was definitely better than the last one. Though the number of tricky questions this time were the same as last year — meaning the difficulty was the same — children are definitely happier,"said Akanksha Gosain, TGT Economics, Bal bhavan Public School, Delhi.

The CBSE Board had earlier cancelled the Class 12 Economics exam after the question paper got leaked. The foreign students had been exempted from appearing in the examination as the board in its investigations found that the paper leak did not put any impact on their results.

As per IANS report, the CBSE board has taken some extra security measures for the conduct of the re-exam, which, for the sake of security, cannot be revealed. The Board has also instructed center heads to take some extra precautions for the class 12 economics re-test.

Most of the students were not happy with CBSE's decision of re-examination.