Gerakan Youth urged the Education Ministry today to be more accountable in handling the leaks of several 2014 UPSR examination papers.

"The ministry must be more accountable, so that incidents like this will not be repeated," the wing’s national public complaints bureau member Ong Siang Liang said.

Ong said Putrajaya must take firm action, without "fear or favour", against all those who were responsible for the leakages.

"Because of these exam paper leakages, the pupils will have to re-sit these papers. This has caused severe stress and frustration upon them and their parents," Ong ( left ) added.

As of now, four papers have been leaked: English, Science, Mathematics and Tamil language.

UPSR candidates will have to re-sit the English and Science papers on Sept 30, and the Mathematics and Tamil language papers on Oct 9.

Look at all factors

Gerakan Youth handed today over a memorandum to senior ministry officers Ahmad Sabirin Abdul Ghani and Ab Kahar Harun.

Ong, who is also chairperson of Gerakan's Seputeh division, said the leak had tarnished Malaysia' reputation.

"A lot of money is also being wasted by printing exam papers, paying the teachers, and so on," Ong added.

He urged the ministry to look at all factors before deciding to make the candidates re-sit the last two papers on Oct 9.

Ab Kahar, who met reporters at his office, said while he understood the requests, he could not say more as the investigation into the exam paper leak was still going on.

"I cannot comment on this issue because it is still under investigation. I do not want to contradict the ministry.

"They've also asked the ministry to re-evaluate the standard operating procedures of the examination board.

"Even then, I cannot say much because the ministry has already done so," Ab Kahar said.

He said this in reference to the appointment of former chief justice Zaki Azmi ( right ) to head a nine-member panel review board tasked to review the management of public examaminations.

The panel was set up after the first two UPSR papers were leaked on Sept 10.

Police have arrested 14 people so far, all of whom have been released on bail.