Karnataka: Principal's son writes how to play PUBG in Economics answer-script, flunks

BENGALURU: A year after he fared fairly well in his class X board exam, Sharath was in despair as he wrote his first year PUC examination recently. All that the boy could jot down in the answer-script of the Economics paper was how to play the PUBG, the fad among youngsters addicted to mobile phones.
According to sources in the department of pre-university education, shocked valuators brought the matter to the notice of the private college in Gadag town where Sharath, son of the principal of another college.Sharath’s college alerted his parents.
Officials said that Sharath, who had secured 73% in SSLC lost track of his studies once he began using mobile phone and got addicted to playing PUBG, even as his parents assumed he might be chatting with friends.

Sharath continued to play but realized that he had lost a lot of time when only 10 days were left for the final exams. He went to the economics exams held on February 2 and wrote how to play PUBG, with images of the battle lines of the game haunting him. Sharath has been declared failed in the exam.
Sharath's parents have now taken him for counselling as appeared to be under. A valuator said students who don’t know answers write film songs or movie dialogues or explain their ordeal, besides pleading that they be given marks. “But I haven't come across such things personally till date," he added.
The sources said that the boy had explained on how to play PUBG, beginning from downloading the application from Play store. In the answer sheet he also explains how to be careful in the blind spots and how and from where to attack better from the blind spots.