29 May 2026

Corruption

Recently there was news about NEET Exam question paper leak. 

Professionals who have worked as Centre Superintendents of CBSE Exams know that CBSE follows strict security measures in it's exam system. Usually CBSE Exam Centre Superintendents are Principals of the schools alotted as Exam Centres. Students of these schools go to other Centres to write the exams, and vice versa. 

Question papers are kept in lockers of designated National Banks amidst tight security. On the day of each exam, Chief Superintendent goes to the Bank and collects the question papers with 100% security. This happens just before the exam begins. From this time onwards, the Principal and school staff who are assigned exam duties are neither allowed to go to other parts of the school building nor allowed to mingle with other school staff. 

After the exams are over, the answer scripts are sent to the Office of the Regional Deputy Director of CBSE amidst tight security. 

Only after the person who delivered the answer scripts returns to the school, the Chief Superintendent and his team are allowed to leave the area. I know these as a former Superintendent of CBSE Exams.

With such strict rules and regulations, I don't understand how question papers can leak, unless corrupt officials and workers are involved.

I think that the culprits should be given harsh punishment such that they would not even imagine comitting offence ever again.



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I am a retired K-12 Education Management Professional. I have worked at different levels in K-12 school systems, textbook publishing, elearning and Education NGOs. I have held memberships in The Association for Science Education (UK), American Association of Physics Teachers and The Malaysian Institute of Physics. I hold a 1st class B Sc Degree in Physics followed by B Ed [English and Physical Science] and M A [Childcare and Education] degrees. My published works include 59 articles in teacher development magazines in India and the US and a book entitled `Creative Classrooms and Child Friendly Schools' (listed in Amazon). This book is almost an anecdotal account of my professional experience in six countries (including Cambodia where I worked as Technical Adviser to the Ministry of Education, Youth And Sports). I served as mentor in the Certificate of Teaching Mastery Program offered by Teachers Without Borders.