New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Thursday, issued an apology for an inappropriate question asked in the Class XII sociology board exam paper. The CBSE board exams for Term 1 are in the process now for Classes X and XII. The first major exam of CBSE Class XII was held on Wednesday.
What was the question?
“The unprecedented scale and spread of anti-muslim violence in Gujarat in 2002 took place under which government?”
There were four options in the MCQ-based paper: Congress, BJP, Democratic and Republican.
Here is CBSE’s apology on Twitter:
“A question has been asked in today’s class 12 sociology Term 1 exam which is inappropriate and in violation of the CBSE guidelines for external subject experts for setting question papers.CBSE acknowledges the error made and will take strict action against the responsible persons.”
“The CBSE guidelines for paper setters clearly state that they have to ensure the questions should be academic-oriented only and should be class, religion-neutral and should not touch upon domains that could harm sentiments of people based on social and political choices,’ it further stated in another tweet.
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