MUMBAI: Tuesday's foundation course exam for company secretariat (CS) was cancelled after the paper leaked a day before at a centre in Faridabad. Close to 40,000 students have registered for this exam across India.
'Elements of Business Law and Management' was last of the four papers that students had to take for the exam that started on June 2. In a notice to students, the Institute of Company Secretaries of India that conducts this licentiate programme said the exam had been cancelled "due to administrative reasons beyond our control".
This professional programme draws the largest number of commerce students after chartered accountancy; each year, close to 1.33 lakh candidates sign up for the course at various levels.
Nesar Ahmad, president of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, said the superintendent at a school in the Faridabad-NCR region, inadvertently opened Tuesday's question paper packet on Monday and distributed the paper to about 250 students in that exam centre.
"A few minutes later, students in that exam centre alerted the supervisors about the wrong question paper that had been handed out to them. Following that, the school's head informed us about the error that had occurred at the distribution stage," said Ahmad. While the school was asked to take back the question papers and give out the correct question paper, the institute decided to cancel Tuesday's exam as it felt that some students could have a privilege over several others. "This was a human error and we were forced to cancel the exam."
The exam is being held at 117 exam centres and it was difficult for the institute to deliver new question papers within a few hours. Delhi has the largest pool of exam-takers at 4,524 students, followed by Kolkata where the exam was being taken by 2,504 students; Mumbai has 1,976 students who had signed up for the foundation course. "We will announce the new date for the exam in a day or two," Ahmad said.
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