Server trouble solved: Students manage to access SSC results
School edu min orders inquiry, MSBSHSE officials quiet on reason behind crash
MUMBAI: After a harrowing experience aided by a server crash on Friday, several Secondary School Certificate (SSC) students managed to access their individual results on Saturday, almost a day after the results were officially announced. Even as state school education department minister Varsha Gaikwad called for a thorough inquiry into this fiasco on Friday, officials at the Maharashtra State Board for Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) refused to divulge any details about the inquiry or the cause behind the official website crashing and remaining unavailable to scores of students for over 10 hours on July 16.
“Every year, students struggle to access results online but this year the situation went out of control. Several schools and experts have time and again pointed to the board the need for separate links to results for each of the nine divisions. This can avoid the rush of students accessing results through the same link, but the board refuses to change their ways,” said the principal of a suburban school in Mumbai.
Board exams for Class 10 and 12 students this year were scrapped in view of the pandemic, and students were marked based on their performance in the current and previous years. SSC was the first of the results to be announced this year with the state recording a 99.75% pass percentage —the highest ever.
State board schools had sent marks of over 1.575 million students to the state board this year, of which over 1.574 million passed the exam. While overall state results were announced by MSBSHSE early on Friday, students struggled to access individual results through the day. After receiving series of complaints from students across the state, board officials called for an impromptu meeting of officials on Friday evening; the details of the meeting however have not been made public yet.
“Several of our students kept trying to check their results till nearly midnight but to no avail. The official results website was up and running smoothly on Saturday morning, which is when most of our students managed to check their individual scores,” said the principal of state board school in Byculla. He added that the school also tried to reach out to the divisional board office in Vashi on Friday but got no clarity or help.
Class 10 students can now start registering for the common entrance test (CET) for admissions to first-year junior college (FYJC) admissions from Monday (July 19). Details about the same are yet to be released by the state board.