Ganguly opposes admission test for eleventh standard

New Delhi, June 23 (UNI) Condemning denial of admission to a topper in a public school here, CBSE Chairman Ashok Ganguly today opposed admission test by schools for eleventh standard, saying students, who clear class ten examinations, should not be asked to write the test.

''It is wrong on part of schools to conduct an admission test for class eleven when a candidate has already cleared the Board examinations,'' Mr Ganguly said.

He said the practice of parents also being interviewed was wrong.

Sixteen-year-old Garima Godara, daughter of a police constable, had scored 97.6 per cent in her class X examination but was allegedly denied admission by a public school in Dwarka in South West Delhi.

The girls was allegedly denied admission on the grounds that she had not scored well in English in the test conducted by the school and that her father could not afford to pay the fees.

The Delhi Government is inquiring into the case.

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