The ninth-grade examinations have literally become a ‘joke’ as three question papers leaked on the first day of the board exams on Tuesday, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.

The question papers of Sindhi language, Urdu and computer science went viral on the instant messaging platform WhatsApp as the students sat for the exams.

Despite all the checks and balances by the education authorities in Sindh, the cheating mafia managed to get leaked the question papers of subject ‘Sindhi’ on WhatsApp groups in Larkana initially and then it went viral in Shikarpur and Shaheed Benazirabad also. The computer science paper was leaked in Karachi.

At many examination centres the invigilators were reported to have become facilitators of the students as they openly committed cheating by using guides and other means.

The mafia men were active in these WhatsApp groups and sharing all types of answers, short, long and objective MCQs.

Also, despite the claims of no loadshedding at examination centres, the electricity authorities almost forgot to ensure uninterested supply of power as Larkana examination centres where ninth grade students are appearing in, were facing kind of outages.

The electricity supply to Government girls schools was completely off due to the loadshedding while the female students urging the administration to solve the issue.

Reporters Abdul Khaliq Mugheri, Abdul Jabbar Abro