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An Indian student has been sent to jail for cheating after she failed a retest.
Ruby Rai, 17, ranked first in the Bihar state exams - but said in a video interview that her main subject political science was about cooking. After the video went viral, Ms Rai was made to re-sit her exams, and was arrested after she failed and had her original results cancelled. Examiners who retested Ms Rai told reporters they were "shocked" by her performance. When asked to write an essay about the Indian poet Tulsidas, she only wrote "Tulsidas ji pranam (Salutations to Tulsidas)".
Meanwhile, arrest warrants have been issued for several other students who performed well in the exams, including Saurabh Shrestha who topped the science stream, but later could not say that H2O was water. Last year, parents of students in the state were photographed climbing school walls to pass on answers.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36639321 [bbc.com]

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