Karnataka: Second year PU Chemistry re-exam on March 31
Bengaluru: March 25, 2016, DHNS:
The Department of Pre-University Education (DPUE) on Thursday said the re-examination for II PU Chemistry paper will be held on March 31, instead of March 29 as announced earlier.
The re-exam will be held between 9 am and 12:15 pm. The department rescheduled the dates after a high-level meeting chaired by Legislative Council Deputy Chairman Marithibbe Gowda unanimously decided against holding the re-examination on March 29.
Students had demanded that the re-exam should not be held on March 29 as the Kannada paper is scheduled for March 28, so they would not get enough time to prepare for the Chemistry exam.
Primary and Secondary Education Minister Kimmane Rathnakar, IT and BT Minister S R Patil, and several members of the two Houses of the Legislature participated in the meeting.
Grace marks
At the meeting, legislators from various political parties demanded that grace marks be given for the “out of syllabus” questions in the Mathematics paper held on March 14.
Rathnakar said that a committee of experts would be formed to look into the issue and a decision would be taken based on the panel’s opinion. Many students and parents had claimed that question numbers 3, 13, 16, 20, 30, 47 and 49 B were not part of the syllabus.
Earlier in the day, Principal Secretary (Primary and Secondary Education) Ajay Shet had said that the Maths question paper was prepared based on the blueprint and new syllabus of the National Council of Educational Research and Training.
‘Not out of syllabus’
“None of the questions were out of the syllabus and could have been answered well within the given time,” he said.
Shet also pointed out that though question numbers 3, 13, 16, 20, 30, 47 and 49 B were “concept based”, they were on similar lines of examples given in the text book and hence within the syllabus.
Shet’s announcement at a press conference that the Chemistry re-exam would be held on March 29 as announced by the DPUE had led to confusion among students.
The re-exam will be held between 9 am and 12:15 pm. The department rescheduled the dates after a high-level meeting chaired by Legislative Council Deputy Chairman Marithibbe Gowda unanimously decided against holding the re-examination on March 29.
Students had demanded that the re-exam should not be held on March 29 as the Kannada paper is scheduled for March 28, so they would not get enough time to prepare for the Chemistry exam.
Primary and Secondary Education Minister Kimmane Rathnakar, IT and BT Minister S R Patil, and several members of the two Houses of the Legislature participated in the meeting.
Grace marks
At the meeting, legislators from various political parties demanded that grace marks be given for the “out of syllabus” questions in the Mathematics paper held on March 14.
Rathnakar said that a committee of experts would be formed to look into the issue and a decision would be taken based on the panel’s opinion. Many students and parents had claimed that question numbers 3, 13, 16, 20, 30, 47 and 49 B were not part of the syllabus.
Earlier in the day, Principal Secretary (Primary and Secondary Education) Ajay Shet had said that the Maths question paper was prepared based on the blueprint and new syllabus of the National Council of Educational Research and Training.
‘Not out of syllabus’
“None of the questions were out of the syllabus and could have been answered well within the given time,” he said.
Shet also pointed out that though question numbers 3, 13, 16, 20, 30, 47 and 49 B were “concept based”, they were on similar lines of examples given in the text book and hence within the syllabus.
Shet’s announcement at a press conference that the Chemistry re-exam would be held on March 29 as announced by the DPUE had led to confusion among students.
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