Tribune News Service
| The CBSE officials have however claimed that there is nothing to worry, as according to DR
Yadav, Regional Head, CBSE, Panchkula the mistake has been registered and needful will be done during the evaluation of papers. |
Chandigarh, March 22
Discrepancy in one of the questions of the CBSE Class XII Board’s Maths examination, conducted today left thousands of students from across the region baffled. Confusion gripped the examination centres when students pointed out that question number 26 of set number 3 was incomplete. The question asking students “to find intervals where the following functions were strictly increasing and decreasing” was of six marks and allegedly lacked both “interval” and “functions”.
“The question was incomplete and when we brought it to the notice of our invigilator he initially asked us to continue the paper but when more students came forward, he talked to the high-ups. We kept on waiting till the last moment but even the centre authorities didn’t say much as they were waiting for CBSE’s intervention,” said Sugandha Singh, a student appearing in a Sector-45 based centre.
“The students panicked as the question carried a lot of weightage. They brought it to our notice and we immediately referred it to the superintendent. While we tried to make students keep their cool but delay in information from the CBSE created tension. We suggested that the students should put the question number and copy it on the answer sheet,” revealed an invigilator.
Interestingly, though many schools tried to get touch with the CBSE officials verbally, they on
their part had failed to fill and submit the performa introduced this year by the CBSE.
As per the initial directive, a centre official is suppose to fill this form with the details of any discrepancy cited in the paper and send it to the CBSE within 24 hours. “We had read about the performa in a paper so asked the centre officials to do so but they asked us to mind our own business. Even if the question is right so many students have expressed doubt that they should take action,” asserted a student.
