<p class="title rtejustify">The Central Board of Secondary Education will conduct a re-test of Class XII economics paper on Wednesday, nearly a month after it was leaked triggering widespread outrage and confusion among students across India.</p>.<p class="rtejustify">"The candidates will appear (for the exam) from the same allotted centres using the same admit card," a board official said on Tuesday.</p>.<p class="rtejustify">For conducting the re-test of the economics paper, the board had said "Class 12 exams are a gateway to higher education and various professional competitive exams which have limited seats... Therefore, giving undue advantage to a handful of beneficiaries of the alleged leak of the economics paper would not be in larger interest of the students."</p>.<p class="title rtejustify">Earlier this month, the CBSE had said it found no impact of the Class X mathematics paper leak after an assessment.</p>.<p class="CrossHead rtejustify"><strong>The history</strong></p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">After reports of the leak surfaced on March 28, the CBSE announced it will re-conduct the examination on April 25.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">Then, there were also reports of the CBSE's Class X mathematics paper being leaked, but the board decided against a re-test of the paper, saying the examination was "largely an internal segment" of school education system.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">The reports of leak of the CBSE papers had caused disappointment among students across the country last month.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">In Delhi, students held protests, accusing the CBSE of negligence and demanded immediate action against the guilty.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">Investigators made arrests in several parts of the country in connection with the case, including in Jharkhand and Himachal Pradesh.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">They claimed to have arrested the main conspirators behind the leak from Una town in Himachal Pradesh. The three people were staffers at a school in the town.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">The Class XII economics paper was leaked on March 23— three days before the scheduled date, according to Delhi Police.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">The leak was exposed after an envelope containing four images of the hand-written economics paper was delivered to the CBSE Headquarters in Delhi on the evening of the scheduled date of examination— March 26.</p>
<p class="title rtejustify">The Central Board of Secondary Education will conduct a re-test of Class XII economics paper on Wednesday, nearly a month after it was leaked triggering widespread outrage and confusion among students across India.</p>.<p class="rtejustify">"The candidates will appear (for the exam) from the same allotted centres using the same admit card," a board official said on Tuesday.</p>.<p class="rtejustify">For conducting the re-test of the economics paper, the board had said "Class 12 exams are a gateway to higher education and various professional competitive exams which have limited seats... Therefore, giving undue advantage to a handful of beneficiaries of the alleged leak of the economics paper would not be in larger interest of the students."</p>.<p class="title rtejustify">Earlier this month, the CBSE had said it found no impact of the Class X mathematics paper leak after an assessment.</p>.<p class="CrossHead rtejustify"><strong>The history</strong></p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">After reports of the leak surfaced on March 28, the CBSE announced it will re-conduct the examination on April 25.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">Then, there were also reports of the CBSE's Class X mathematics paper being leaked, but the board decided against a re-test of the paper, saying the examination was "largely an internal segment" of school education system.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">The reports of leak of the CBSE papers had caused disappointment among students across the country last month.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">In Delhi, students held protests, accusing the CBSE of negligence and demanded immediate action against the guilty.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">Investigators made arrests in several parts of the country in connection with the case, including in Jharkhand and Himachal Pradesh.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">They claimed to have arrested the main conspirators behind the leak from Una town in Himachal Pradesh. The three people were staffers at a school in the town.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">The Class XII economics paper was leaked on March 23— three days before the scheduled date, according to Delhi Police.</p>.<p class="bodytext rtejustify">The leak was exposed after an envelope containing four images of the hand-written economics paper was delivered to the CBSE Headquarters in Delhi on the evening of the scheduled date of examination— March 26.</p>