CBSE vs Vedant Shrivastava: Class 12 student rejects board’s claim of ‘blatant lies’ | Today’s news
Class 12 student Vedant Shrivastava is still at crossroad with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), weeks after his answer sheet became the subject of the Board’s On Screen Marking (OSM) dispute.
After the CBSE countered Shrivastav, who said he had re-applied for revaluation, the Class 12 student claimed that his overall marks had increased by only two, one in mathematics and one in computer science. However, the board said his physics score had also gone up by 9 points and dismissed his claims of irregularities as a “blatant lie”.
Posting on social media, the student wrote, “Hello cbseindia29, the increase of 9 marks in physics that you are talking about was not increased by the revaluation process, it is my actual marks which you did not give me earlier because you changed my answer sheet and 2 marks were increased 1 each in cs and maths.
His comments followed the rejection of his claims by the Board of Education. Earlier on June 28, he posted a video and said, “I got my revaluation results. I appeared for 11 questions and got only two marks in the revaluation results.”
CBSE vs Vedant Shrivastava
News agency ANI reported that the CBSE later rejected Shrivastav’s claims of irregularities in the revaluation results, calling them “factually incorrect” and a “blatant lie”. The board also noted that 99.7 percent of the applications received for revaluation after the declaration of Class 12 results have been processed and the pending ones are in the final stage of review.
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Responding to the education board’s claim, Shrivastava wrote in another post, “How is this a blatant lie? The increase of 9 marks in physics will not happen after opening the revaluation portal and if the physics answer sheet was not mine, how were my marks awarded on that answer sheet?”
The Class 12 student had earlier drawn attention to himself after he posted on X in May, claiming that his original physics answer sheet had been replaced by another student. The claim sparked an online controversy over alleged irregularities in the evaluation of CBSE Class 12 answer sheets.
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Social media users react
Following Shrivastava’s post, several social media users reacted to the ongoing spat between the two. Several users blamed the central council, accusing it of similar acts in the past. While one user wrote: “There is no point in talking to them logically. They just want to blindly defend their mistakes and hide their misdeeds,” another wrote, “Officials are serial offenders and blatant liars!”
A third user accused the education agency of setting the student on fire by hiding their own mistakes.
Who is Vedant Shrivastava?
Vedant Shrivastava recently found himself at the center of a controversy after raising concerns over an alleged mix-up regarding his Physics answer sheet. On May 13, CBSE declared the Class 12 results and six days later, Vedant said he got unexpectedly low marks in Physics. He claimed that after getting scanned copies of his answer sheets, he found that the physics paper associated with his roll number was not his.
In a post on X on May 23, he wrote: “I studied all year. I sacrificed sleep, peace, trips and everything for these exams. And now I don’t even know if my real physics paper was checked. Do students really deserve this?”
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His post comes at a time when several students have raised inconsistencies with OSM’s grading system. Shrivastava’s post became the subject of online trolling and abuse, with some users calling it “anti-national” and “Pakistani”.
