Apart from the school candidates, 242 prisoners have written the Class 10 board exam and 133 (54.95%) candidates have cleared it.

As the scale of absentees has unprecedently increased, the school education department has taken the matter seriously and initiated a detailed investigation into the revelation

The development has been going viral and become the talk of the nation after witnessing an octagenarian student clearing the school exams.

School Education Department has suspended Tiruvannamalai CEO S Arulselvam from service in connection to the shocking leakage of the revision exam papers for Class 10 and 12.

The supplementary exams will be held for the students who are not satisfied with their final marks that were awarded based on the criteria.

The students can download the mark sheet, three days after the results- on July 22 from 11 am, by visiting the sites www.dge.tn.gov.in and www.dge.tn.nic.in. 

It must be noted that the colleges and universities in Tamil Nadu will begin the admission process from August 1st. However, the government is yet to announce when the schools and colleges will be fully reopened. 

The statement from the minister has come after holding a discussion with the vice-chancellors of the universities in the state. 

The statement from the minister has come two days after the state government has unveiled the evaluation criteria to award the marks for the Class 12 students. 

Nearly three weeks after the panel was constituted, the state government has on Saturday announced the criteria of awarding marks to the Class 12 students.