PESHAWAR, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: The Peshawar High Court summoned two senior education board officials on Tuesday after a coding error resulted in a ninth-grade student receiving zero marks in Biology theory.
A two-member bench comprising Justice Ijaz Anwar and Justice Babar Sattar ordered the chairman and controller of examinations of the Peshawar Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education to appear personally and produce the student’s answer sheet.
The board’s counsel told the court that examination papers receive computer-generated codes upon reaching the board. The student’s paper was mistakenly assigned a different number, resulting in a zero-mark error for the Peshawar Board.
Although the student’s father told the bench that his individual case had been resolved, Justice Anwar said the court could not treat the issue as closed because other students might have faced similar errors without being able to approach the judiciary.
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Earlier proceedings identified the student as Abdul Moeez Khan. His lawyers told the court that he had secured an A+ grade in other subjects and scored 23 out of 25 in the Biology multiple-choice and practical components before receiving zero in theory.
Justice Anwar said examination mistakes affecting students had become a recurring concern and warned that responsibility would have to be fixed before improvement could occur. The court adjourned proceedings after summoning the two board officials.
