After crackdown, 5 lakh students drop out of UP Board exam

More than five lakh students left the ongoing UP Board exams for Class X and XII midway in the first two days due to a massive crackdown on cheating, an official said on Thursday.

This is seen as an outcome of the tight screening and anti-copying measures



implemented by the government which had vowed to ensure there was no copying this year.

Officials in the Secondary Education Department told  that the strictness had led to students aborting the exams midway including in subjects like Hindi and home science.