cuttack the orissa high court on wednesday directed the central board of secondary education cbse to reevaluate the answer sheets of 18 class xii students who had filed petitions alleging faulty evaluation by the board the court also asked the board to inform the students about their results by june 10 the vacation bench of justice biswanath rath has directed the 18 students to apply for reevaluation at the cbses regional office in bhubaneswar by 2pm on thursday the cbse authorities have been directed by the court to form an expert committee reevaluate the answer sheets of the 18 students and intimate them about their respective marks by june 10 asim amitabh dash one of the counsels appearing for the students saidthe 18 students had filed petitions in the high court this week alleging largescale discrepancies in their class xii results which were announced on may 28 in their petitions the students claimed that many of them have been given single digit marks in some subjects while they scored more than 80 and 90 in other subjects the students said the discrepancy would affect their careers and despite repeated appeals cbse was not ready to reevaluate their answer sheets they then sought the high courts intervention we highlighted the delhi high courts recent order in which it had directed the cbse to continue with the moderation policy for 2017 as the policy was changed by way of a notification after the exams for the year were held hence it was unfair to implement it this year we also argued that when students had registered for the class xii exam the reevaluation process was in place and scrapped later hence the students should get its benefit said pitambar acharya another counsel who appeared on behalf of the petitioners