Exams Dept. worker among 3 arrested over O/L paper leak
December 24, 2012 02:13 pm
Three suspects including an employee in the printing section of the Examinations Department has been arrested over the leaking of the G.C.E. Ordinary Level (O/L) Science exam paper.
The suspects are to be presented at the Kaduwela Magistrate’s Court today (24).
The CID on Friday had arrested a tuition teacher and an accomplice suspected of leaking the science paper and were remanded till December 28 after being produced before the Kaduwela Magistrate.
The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) had launched investigations after receiving a complaint on December 15 that several questions included in the O/L science paper were contained in a model paper provided at a tuition class.
It had been revealed that several questions included in the Science “Part – I” paper, handed out to students during the exam, were discussed by the tuition teacher via a model question paper before the O/L exams had commenced.
The suspects are to be presented at the Kaduwela Magistrate’s Court today (24).
The CID on Friday had arrested a tuition teacher and an accomplice suspected of leaking the science paper and were remanded till December 28 after being produced before the Kaduwela Magistrate.
The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) had launched investigations after receiving a complaint on December 15 that several questions included in the O/L science paper were contained in a model paper provided at a tuition class.
It had been revealed that several questions included in the Science “Part – I” paper, handed out to students during the exam, were discussed by the tuition teacher via a model question paper before the O/L exams had commenced.
