Students made to suffer for Invigilators’ error – DNA

A group of candidates who sat the GCE Advanced Level exam in Ratnapura yesterday were kept "under arrest" due to a fault of the exam hall authorities, Parliament was told yesterday.
DNA MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake told Parliament that the invigilators and other officials had by mistake distributed in the morning the English question paper (II) scheduled for the afternoon instead of paper (I).
Later they came to know of their mistake and did not allow candidates to go out of the exam hall during the lunch break and ordered that they sit for the English paper (I) too to avoid the leaking of questions.
That had happened at a leading school in Ratnapura and the candidates had not been allowed to have their lunch or go to the toilet, he said.
Education Minister Bandula Gunawardena said that the examination authorities were humans and it was the nature of humans to err.
The examination authorities had taken appropriate action to prevent the contents of the paper leaking, he said.
MP Dissanayake: Is keeping children under house arrest without allowing them to go to toilet the most ideal action?
Minister Gunawardena said that there was nothing else to be done in such a situation and promised he would look into the matter. (News-The Island)