The state board’s processes are far from error-free, as mid-day’s front-page report on Thursday (‘SSC board fails school topper, turns out she scored 94%’) amply demonstrated.

To ensure that they haven’t been victims of similar errors, hundreds of SSC and HSC students have been lining up at the Mumbai divisional board office in Vashi to get photocopies of their answer sheets, which is the first step in the rechecking process. Nearly 277 SSC students applied for photocopies yesterday alone “I have always scored well in my English paper.