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Putrajaya to challenge dyslexic student’s lawsuit over UPSR leaks
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 12 — The federal government and the Malaysian Examinations Syndicate (MES) will defend themselves in a lawsuit file by dyslexic student Ananda Krishnan Menon over leaked UPSR examination papers that required him to be retested.
The student’s lawyer, V. Rajadevan, said the two parties — who were sued over their alleged negligence in handling examination papers for some UPSR subjects — will be contesting his client’s claim. “Today, the defendants came and asked for another date to file their defence,” the lawyer told Malay Mail Online.
He confirmed that the government’s lawyers must file their defence by next January 6, which was also fixed as the next case management date. Following the MES’ confirmation in September of the leakage of test papers for four subjects, Ananda’s mother, K. Mangala Bhavani, filed the civil suit on his behalf at the Kuala Lumpur High Court registry.
In his suit filed on October 13, Ananda claimed that the defendants had failed to put in place a system that would have prevented any leaks of examination papers.
He also sued them for failure to supervise their employees and agents to avoid the leaks. The 13-year-old said that he has special needs as a sufferer of the learning disability — dyslexia — also claiming that he had experienced stress, frustration and demotivation when he was forced to re-sit certain papers of the UPSR examination.
Ananda, who was studying at the Sekolah Kebangsaan Taman Tun Dr Ismail 2, is now seeking compensation. The UPSR examination was set to run nationwide from September 9 to September 11 for close to half a million primary school students, but the MES postponed a few papers and ordered resits for the rest of the papers that were leaked.
In what is likely the largest scandal over leaked examination papers in Malaysia’s history, the UPSR English papers carrying the code of 014/1 and 014/2 were annulled after students had sat for the papers on September 11, while the examinations for the Science 018, 028 and 038 papers were postponed before the pupils could sit for them on the same day.
These English and Science papers were then set for a fresh test on September 30, while the MES confirmed in late September that the Mathematics and Tamil papers with five paper codes were also leaked.
At the time of confirmation, students had already sat for both the Mathematics and Tamil papers on September 10, but they were asked to be re-take the same papers on October 9.
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Post time 24-10-2014 04:47 PM
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