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Friday, August 15, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 72
Debarghya Das was always curious about the education board and intuitively knew that there was something fishy going on. After all the Cornell graduate had experienced the same system as a student in India. So, he began analyzing the data of thousands of students, he began poking around on the results page after grades were announced and found that the web security was rather lax.
In a few hours, he slipped past the education board’s poorly-designed website, scraped together the results of the thousands of students who had written the exam that year and found potential evidence that the grades were being tampered with.
He found that in six different subjects — English, Hindi, computer application, science, math and history, civics and geography — not one student had scored over half of the possible grades attainable to pass the exam. The tests are scored out of 100 and the minimum score required to pass is 35, which means students should theoretically be able to get any of the 66 numbers between 35 and 100 to pass. However, Das’ data showed 33 missing scores.
Read more on Das's blog http://deedy.quora.com/Hacking-into-the-Indian-Education-System
http://deedy.quora.com/Hacking-into-the-Indian-Education-System
Debarghya Das was always curious about the education board and intuitively knew that there was something fishy going on. After all the Cornell graduate had experienced the same system as a student in India. So, he began analyzing the data of thousands of students, he began poking around on the...
Debarghya Das was always curious about the education board and intuitively knew that there was something fishy going on. After all the Cornell graduate had experienced the same system as a student in India. So, he began analyzing the data of thousands of students, he began poking around on the results page after grades were announced and found that the web security was rather lax.
In a few hours, he slipped past the education board’s poorly-designed website, scraped together the results of the thousands of students who had written the exam that year and found potential evidence that the grades were being tampered with.
He found that in six different subjects — English, Hindi, computer application, science, math and history, civics and geography — not one student had scored over half of the possible grades attainable to pass the exam. The tests are scored out of 100 and the minimum score required to pass is 35, which means students should theoretically be able to get any of the 66 numbers between 35 and 100 to pass. However, Das’ data showed 33 missing scores.
Read more on Das's blog http://deedy.quora.com/Hacking-into-the-Indian-Education-System
http://deedy.quora.com/Hacking-into-the-Indian-Education-System
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