J&K Student Committed Suicide After Failing Exam, Declared A Topper After Re-Evaluation 4 Months Later

Four Months after Mohammad Adnan Hilal committed suicide because of failing in exam, the news about him declared a topper after re-evaluation will do no good to his family. Rather this re-evaluation of papers has left them numb.

17-year-old Mohammad Hilal, who was an electronic engineering student at Government Polytechnic College in Srinagar was declared ‘failed’ in Physics, his favorite subject, which became the reason for his suicide. He got 28 marks in Physics, a subject his friends and family claimed he had mastery over, and a student require a minimum of 33 marks to pass the exam. During the re-evaluation, not only he got 48 marks in Physics but he was also declared a topper of the class with an aggregate percentage of 70.

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Adnan’s father, Hilal Ahmad Gilkar recalled the day of the exam and said:
“When Adnan returned in the evening on the day of his examination, he informed me that he did well in Physics paper. He told me there was no continuation sheet at the examination center so he had to write the rest of the answers on another answer sheet. He was confident that he had done well.”

Mr. Gilkar further said that it is not a suicide but a “murder” as he was forced to take the extreme step by the callousness of some people in the system. More importantly, it is the attitude of Jammu and Kashmir State Board of Technical Education (JKSBOTE) to watch out for. When they were asked about it, they said, “it is a ‘mistake’ and such things also happen in other universities as well.”

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It is high time that we must fix the flaws in our education system otherwise the whole purpose of education will be defeated. We must ensure that what happened to Mohammad Adnan Hilal should not happen to anyone else.

 

News Source: Indian Express

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