UP Board Exams 2025: UPMSP finds 9 students using unfair means, 14 impersonators so far

NEW DELHI: The Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad (UPMSP) found nine candidates using unfair means and 14 dummy candidates in UP Board Class 10, 12 board exams 2025 held on February 24. UPMSP conducted 10th, 12th board exams 2025 in two shifts. Class 10 Hindi paper and Class 12 military science papers were held in shift 1 while Class 10 healthcare and Class 12 Hindi papers took place in shift 2.

A total of 48,76,219 candidates appeared for the UP board exams 2025 on day 1 with 24,74,862 in the first shift and 24,01,357 in the second shift. More than 51.49 lakh students had registered.

UP Board Exams 2025: Day 1

In the first shift of the UP Board 10th exam 2025, six students were caught using unfair means in Farrukhabad district and one student in Pratapgarh district. In the second shift of the UP Board Inter exam 2025, one student each was caught in Bijnor and Mirzapur districts.

In UP Board exam 2025 day 1 shift 1 exam, six impersonating examinees were caught in Farrukhabad district, four in Ghazipur district, and one each in Kannauj, Jaunpur, Firozabad, and Pratapgarh districts, respectively. The board found, in total, 14 dummy candidates.

UP Board Exams 2025: No criminal action against students

UPMSP reminded that the preamble of the Uttar Pradesh Public Examination (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act 2024 clearly states that examinees will be exempted from criminal liability in view of their future. Additionally, Section 3 of the Act clearly states that "Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act, the provisions related to discipline or penalties under this Act will not apply to those examinees who are appearing in a public examination for obtaining any academic, technical, vocational, or other qualifications."

However, if such an examinee is found using or involved in the use of unfair means to answer any paper in a public examination, the answer sheet for that particular paper will not be evaluated, and the examinee’s result will be declared by the examination authority in the prescribed manner.

“Therefore, you are expected to take the above-mentioned action in the case of examinees found using or involved in unfair means. Additionally, decisive and strict action should be taken under the relevant provisions of the Act against individuals other than the examinee, as described in Section 8,” the board secretary Bhagwati Singh told the education department.