Cyber cafes across the city were inundated with jittery students queuing up with their parents to check on the much-awaited SSC results on Thursday morning. Since it was reported that marks were scheduled to be out at 11.15am, nervous pupils began gathering outside the cafes from 11 am.
“There were 50 to 60 people waiting for their results. Everyone came by 11am and were sitting outside but I was here by 10:30 am with my friend, so that I could be among the first,” said Gurbakh Singh, a student of Palavi Model School who learnt that he got 64 per cent in his Boards. Gurbakh may have beaten the crowd, but he still needed to do his share of waiting as Mohan Singh owner of Simran Communications Cyber café in Sindhi colony says, “Though the papers stated that results were supposed to be available by 11.15 am and the site, aarvy.com said 11.45 am, marks came out only at 12 noon.” In order to speed up the process most cyber café owners don’t let students monopolise the computer for long. Usually someone from the café sits at the terminal and after looking at a pupil’s hall ticket number, checks the marks and gives the concerned party their much awaited print out. But this doesn’t necessarily smoothen everything out as Deepa Desai a student of St Marks complains that eager students keep pushing and pulling the crowd.