Incomplete details in a question in class 10 board exam upsets students

Updated on: Thursday, March 28, 2013

Lakhs of students who took the Class 10 state board exams under the Samacheer Kalvi syllabus were left confused and upset over a compulsory five mark question in the Tamil 2 exam on Thursday.

Question number 38 asked students to fill the particulars in an enclosed bank challan, but failed to give a challan. School teachers said that when such a question is asked, usually the bank challan is given, so students were confused about what to do.

Some schools said that they received a call from the district educational officer to inform the students that they should at least attempt the question to get full marks. Some others had no such luck. A city school said that when they spoke to department officials and the Directorate of Government Examinations (DGE), the officials pleaded ignorance.

In such cases, when representations are made to the DGE, full marks are awarded for that question if students just attempt it. But, there was no way of verifying whether this was the case. "So, we used the school public addressal system to tell students to draw a challan as best as they could, and fill the particulars", said B Purushothaman, Senior Principal and correspondent of Everwin Matriculation Higher Secondary School in Kolathur.

"Time management becomes an issue in language papers. So, we asked the students to at least fill an incomplete form. This could have caused confusion," said Purushothaman.

As many as 10.68 lakh students are writing the Class 10 board exams this year. A majority have opted for Tamil as the second language.

Incomplete details in a question in class 10 board exam upsets students

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