A TEENAGER'S RESOLVE AMIDST A GRAVE ERROR COMMITTED BY THE EDUCATION BOARD Recently, Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education (TSBIE) has been in the news for wrong reasons- fiasco in declaring the results, where several students have been wrongly failed or marked absent. This had led to disappointment among students as well as their parents, in some cases, resulting into suicides of some failed students. https://www.news18.com/news/india/telangana-result-fiasco-parents-worried-as-21-students-commit-suicide-in-10-days-2120021.html This takes me three decades back to May 1989, when a similar error was committed by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). In the "Marks Statement" issued by the CBSE in May 1989, you can see the marks in Physics theory- 23/70 (which happens to be the bare minimum marks needed to pass). Compared to this, marks in Chemistry theory- 63/70 and biology theory- 62/70. The minimum overall (theory + practical) pass marks was 50...