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Wrong questions in Maths paper; SSLC students send petition to State Board

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Bengaluru: Students have sent petitions to the Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board (KSEEB), recently, to deal with wrong questions being asked in Mathematics examinations.

The students have stated that the recent mathematics exam paper had questions that were “not supposed to be asked” in the exam. The students said that they were not prepared for those questions; as they were literally stumped and wonder why every exam board is ‘testing’ students.

The affected students claim that this was in violation of the Karnataka Textbook Society order that has listed 213 ‘tough’ maths problems. The society had asked teachers not to teach them in the class, and indicated to paper setters also not ask those questions in the exam.

Reacting to this, KSEEB director Yashoda Bopanna said, “If there are any specific complaints, we will look into it.”

He noted that the problem started when the revised syllabus for 10th standard that incorporated a few major topics like ‘Probability’, ‘Trigonometry’ and ‘Co-ordinate Geometry’. These topics made up 78 pages out of 434 pages of the new textbook. In contrast, the CBSE 10th standard maths textbook had just 312 pages.

The textbook revision, intended to bring the state maths syllabus on par with CBSE, was alleged to have exceeded the state syllabus featuring an extra chapter on ‘Permutations and Combinations’, which CBSE does not feature.

Experts said that when the state government announced in 2011 that it will follow the CBSE syllabus starting with the revised 8th standard maths textbook in 2012 and ending with the revised 10th standard book in 2014, all were anxious about the changes.

But major changes were not effected in the 8th and 9th standard revisions brought out in 2012 and 2013 respectively, save for one additional topic in the 9th standard textbook on ‘Ratio and Proportion’. This would have lulled many into complacency over the 10th standard textbook revision, thus, surprising them.

 

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