Bengaluru: As usual, comic answers that grace the SSLC answer sheets, especially the maths paper are doing the rounds on Whats app. That in itself is surprising when Mobile phones are supposedly, not allowed inside the evaluation centers. But then, the evaluators and the general public itself, do get a sense of comic relief from the drudgery of evaluating thousands of answer scripts written in difficult to read hand writing!

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Some make fervent pleas to make them pass and others even write prayers to the Almighty. This year, a perhaps hungry evaluator found a detailed recipe of a “tasty” chicken curry in response to question 27 of the mathematics paper. Incidentally he had eaten this ‘chicken sambar’ a week before the exam.

One student justified his plea for at least 60 marks thus: “I don’t understand maths. But still, I made an effort to wake up at 5.30 a.m. every morning to solve maths problems, but to no use. I feel these problems are not at all relevant and useful,” he reasoned, and said that the evaluator would be blessed by god, as he would pray for their well being.

One classic answer threatens black magic and suicide for failure. He said he would be scolded by his family if he failed the exams and added that he was good in all other subjects, except maths.

Manjunath H.K., president of the Karnataka State High School Assistant Masters’ Association, said photographs of these answer scripts were doing the rounds on various WhatsApp groups. He said it was a routine phenomenon every year, but questioned how they were being circulated on WhatsApp as phones are banned from evaluation centres.

Director of the Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board, Yashoda Bopanna, said the answer papers were likely to have come from Ballari.