This was not the only issue spotted in the Term 1 exam for CBSE students. It was reported that CBSE issued an apology for asking the question “The unprecedented scale and spread of anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat in 2002 took place under which government?” The four options in the MCQ based paper were – Congress, BJP, Democratic and Republican. The question appeared in the CBSE’s Sociology test in the Term 1 Board Exams for Class 12.CBSE posted on Twitter: “A question has been asked in today’s Class 12 sociology Term 1 exam, which is inappropriate and in violation of the CBSE guidelines for external subject experts for setting question papers. CBSE acknowledges the error made and will take strict action against the responsible persons.”In a second tweet, it said: “The CBSE guidelines for paper setters clearly state that they have to ensure the questions should be academic oriented only and should not touch upon domains that could harm sentiments of people based on social and political choices.”
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