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03-09-2010, 09:08 PM
With the annual examinations on, many Class IX students from several city schools are these days busy collecting question papers from schools in the same area.
The CBSE is setting up question papers for Class IX this year, after the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) scheme was introduced last October, and many schools reported that they got the same question papers in at least two subjects: English and Mathematics.
The problem: the schools had scheduled their exams on different days.
So, students of Apeejay School, Pitampura, who had seen the English paper for Bal Bharti, Rohini, discovered they had struck a goldmine when they sat for their exams on March 4: the papers were the same.
Ishaan Gulati, of Class IX at Apeejay School, Pitampura, said most of his classmates knew the English question paper beforehand. “There are six schools within a half-kilometre distance from our school,” Gulati said, “and all students are going to these schools, or calling up friends to try and get the paper for other subjects as well.”
Bal Bharati Public School in Rohini held its English exam for Class IX a few days before Apeejay, Pitampura.
Three Pitampura schools — New State Academy, Crescent Public School, Guru Nanak Public School — and Bal Bharati, Rohini, had the same question papers.
Students from St Thomas’ School, Mandir Marg, also reported having got the same paper as Carmel Convent, which had its exam two days before.
The CBSE this year has come up with 300-odd question papers in each subject for 10,000-odd affiliated schools. This was done to bring in uniformity in the way schools conduct the summative assessment — or standardisation of tests and question papers in different schools. The papers were sent to schools in CDs, and only principals could access them with a special password.
Ishaan’s mother Seema Gulati, a homemaker from Paschim Vihar, called it a “very sad” development, and many teachers agreed. Anjali Aggarwal, principal St Mark’s School, Meera Bagh, said the CBSE “should have come up with a common date sheet”, like it does for Board examinations.
Apeejay, Pitampura, principal D K Bedi said CBSE should either allow schools to conduct exams on their own or fix a common date sheet for all schools.
CBSE chairperson Vineet Joshi said, “We will verify and incorporate changes as and when problems surface. It is not possible to prepare 11,000 separate question papers (one for each school).”
According to officials, CBSE might ask schools to prepare their own question papers from next year.
Source: Indian Express
The CBSE is setting up question papers for Class IX this year, after the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) scheme was introduced last October, and many schools reported that they got the same question papers in at least two subjects: English and Mathematics.
The problem: the schools had scheduled their exams on different days.
So, students of Apeejay School, Pitampura, who had seen the English paper for Bal Bharti, Rohini, discovered they had struck a goldmine when they sat for their exams on March 4: the papers were the same.
Ishaan Gulati, of Class IX at Apeejay School, Pitampura, said most of his classmates knew the English question paper beforehand. “There are six schools within a half-kilometre distance from our school,” Gulati said, “and all students are going to these schools, or calling up friends to try and get the paper for other subjects as well.”
Bal Bharati Public School in Rohini held its English exam for Class IX a few days before Apeejay, Pitampura.
Three Pitampura schools — New State Academy, Crescent Public School, Guru Nanak Public School — and Bal Bharati, Rohini, had the same question papers.
Students from St Thomas’ School, Mandir Marg, also reported having got the same paper as Carmel Convent, which had its exam two days before.
The CBSE this year has come up with 300-odd question papers in each subject for 10,000-odd affiliated schools. This was done to bring in uniformity in the way schools conduct the summative assessment — or standardisation of tests and question papers in different schools. The papers were sent to schools in CDs, and only principals could access them with a special password.
Ishaan’s mother Seema Gulati, a homemaker from Paschim Vihar, called it a “very sad” development, and many teachers agreed. Anjali Aggarwal, principal St Mark’s School, Meera Bagh, said the CBSE “should have come up with a common date sheet”, like it does for Board examinations.
Apeejay, Pitampura, principal D K Bedi said CBSE should either allow schools to conduct exams on their own or fix a common date sheet for all schools.
CBSE chairperson Vineet Joshi said, “We will verify and incorporate changes as and when problems surface. It is not possible to prepare 11,000 separate question papers (one for each school).”
According to officials, CBSE might ask schools to prepare their own question papers from next year.
Source: Indian Express