Pre-university lecturers across the state boycotted the II PU evaluation on Monday saying the English question paper on March 26th was 'full of mistakes'. The PU department realised its folly a week ago when the officials were flooded with messages/mails from lecturers wondering how the PU department can actually prepare a faulty test paper for students sitting to write their crucial boards.
Speaking to Mirror, a PU official said, "We were shocked to receive mails on March 26 (the day exams were conducted). The mails pointed to the 'errors' that started from the instruction itself. The first line in the instruction asked students to follow the prescribed 'unit' while it should have read prescribed 'limit'. Secondly, the prescribed paper format suggested section one would consist of four questions from poetry and eight from prose. However, the question paper had five questions from poetry and seven from prose." According to him, many other sections strayed from the set format.
This was not all. "In question number 22, the entire poem was misinterpreted. In the question number 23, students were asked to write a question for six marks (approximately 200 words). However, the textbook has barely touched upon the topic with some three lines of information. In the comprehension passage, the first and second passages were contradictory in nature, confusing the students. In page number five, the students didn't have the right passive form.
Question number 30 started as an incomplete note. The question with the graph was also wrongly misguided," added the official stating that so many errors worried the PU department since they had no answers. Needless to say, students are worried. "I fear I will be losing some crucial marks. But if grace marks are given, it will be a huge relief," said H Benjamin, a science student in a city-based college.
One of the evaluators who boycotted the evaluation said, "We were confused as to how to evaluate the answer script and there was no clarity on grace marks. Even the scheme sent to us had errors and hence we couldn't continue our work." Despite messages to the PU director - Sushma Godbole, she was unavailable for comments.
This year has been terrible for plus two students. If the English paper was not enough, the math papers were full of errors too. The Math exam held for II PUC on March 28 had two errors. The first error, a six marker in question number 50 (a) was printed as, "Each piece of model B requires 12 labour hours for 'finishing' and three hours for finishing." Experts say that in the first instance, it should have said 'fabricated' instead of finishing. The second instance botched up a question on probability.
Not just the Bangalore University, the CBSE left their students in the lurch. Their Math paper for class 12 held on March 20, had raked up a nationwide controversy with students claiming that not only was the question paper tough but most of it was out of syllabus too.
Speaking to Mirror, a PU official said, "We were shocked to receive mails on March 26 (the day exams were conducted). The mails pointed to the 'errors' that started from the instruction itself. The first line in the instruction asked students to follow the prescribed 'unit' while it should have read prescribed 'limit'. Secondly, the prescribed paper format suggested section one would consist of four questions from poetry and eight from prose. However, the question paper had five questions from poetry and seven from prose." According to him, many other sections strayed from the set format.
This was not all. "In question number 22, the entire poem was misinterpreted. In the question number 23, students were asked to write a question for six marks (approximately 200 words). However, the textbook has barely touched upon the topic with some three lines of information. In the comprehension passage, the first and second passages were contradictory in nature, confusing the students. In page number five, the students didn't have the right passive form.
Question number 30 started as an incomplete note. The question with the graph was also wrongly misguided," added the official stating that so many errors worried the PU department since they had no answers. Needless to say, students are worried. "I fear I will be losing some crucial marks. But if grace marks are given, it will be a huge relief," said H Benjamin, a science student in a city-based college.
One of the evaluators who boycotted the evaluation said, "We were confused as to how to evaluate the answer script and there was no clarity on grace marks. Even the scheme sent to us had errors and hence we couldn't continue our work." Despite messages to the PU director - Sushma Godbole, she was unavailable for comments.
This year has been terrible for plus two students. If the English paper was not enough, the math papers were full of errors too. The Math exam held for II PUC on March 28 had two errors. The first error, a six marker in question number 50 (a) was printed as, "Each piece of model B requires 12 labour hours for 'finishing' and three hours for finishing." Experts say that in the first instance, it should have said 'fabricated' instead of finishing. The second instance botched up a question on probability.
Not just the Bangalore University, the CBSE left their students in the lurch. Their Math paper for class 12 held on March 20, had raked up a nationwide controversy with students claiming that not only was the question paper tough but most of it was out of syllabus too.
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