SAHIWAL: Around four dozen students protested outside the Sahiwal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education office and the commissioner office on Monday over `wrong marking` of their inter part-1 papers.

Commissioner Babar Hayat met with students and assured them that he would talk to the board management.

Protesters were from the Divisional Public School and College, Concordia College and the Punjab College.

A placard, flashed by one of the protesters, read: `I attempted 70 marks inthe paper but received 96 marks; thank you, Sahiwal Board`.

They alleged flawed marking both in English and Urdu papers.

Abuzar said he got less marks in both subjects while he was expecting more than 75 percent marks in objective and subjective portions of the paper.

Ali Nawaz complained about high rechecking fee.

Board controller Tahir Jaf feri told Dawn that rules stated the paper would be rechecked by the examiner only and no student would be allowed to see their paper. Correspondent