TYBA exam paper completed on phone
French Paper Incomplete, Setter Dictates Extra Question
Mumbai: Final-year Arts students appearing for the travel and tourism exam in French on April 18,were handed an incomplete question paper.Worse,when informed of the gaffe,the paper-setter dictated the additional question over phone to a student who was asked to relay it to others.
French Paper Incomplete, Setter Dictates Extra Question
Mumbai: Final-year Arts students appearing for the travel and tourism exam in French on April 18,were handed an incomplete question paper.Worse,when informed of the gaffe,the paper-setter dictated the additional question over phone to a student who was asked to relay it to others.
Since there are few students pursuing the course and only 20 were appearing for
the paper,there was only one centre for the exam.Students at the centre
realised there werent enough questions in the 100-mark paper and informed their
supervisor about the same.Ruia College,where the exam was being held,called the
universitys exam house which realised that the paper-setter had goofed up.
What followed was even more surprising.When the gaffe was pointed out to the
paper-setter,he immediately dictated an additional question of 5 marks over the
telephone to make up for the rest of the marks.A parent,who informed this paper
about the error,said she was shocked at the manner in which the university
handled the matter.When the question was being dictated on the phone,the staff
could not comprehend what was being said in the foreign language.So a student
was asked to volunteer.My daughter said a student from her class took the phone
and came back and dictated the question to the others, the mother of a student
who did not want to be identified,said.
Other students said they just went by what was announced by the student and
hoped that she had heard the question correctly over the phone.First,the
university sends an incomplete question paper.Instead of rectifying it,they
call out the question on the phone.They should have typed out the question and
faxed or emailed it to the college, said another parent.
Ruia college principal Suhas Pednekar confirmed that a complaint was filed with the university authorities about the incomplete paper and a question was promptly given over the phone.
QUESTION PAPER PUZZLE
THE MISSING MARKS
Final-year arts students appearing for the travel and tourism paper in French on Thursday realised that the question paper was incomplete
GAFFES IN THE PAST
This year,another paper setter had goofed up.On Saturday,post-graduate students across nine exam centres received the question papers of an exam that was scheduled 10 days later.First-year MSc students were handed over the environment science Paper-IV instead of Paper-I.The goof-up took place because the paper-setter wrongly put Paper-IV in the envelope that was meant for Paper-I
ACTION TAKEN NOW
The university will raise the matter in the board of examinations and ask the paper setter to explain
Times View: Total lack of accountability
Its a new low for the university.What happened is inconceivable even in a school internal examination.The recurrence of goof-ups points to a total lack of accountability among a section of teachers and officials.The university is fortunate that this has happened in a subject that not too many students opt for;there would have been far more grief had it been a subject that needed multiple exam centres.But that does not detract from the gravity of the error.The university needs to deal with this in such a manner that would act as a precedent and preempt a recurrence.
Ruia college principal Suhas Pednekar confirmed that a complaint was filed with the university authorities about the incomplete paper and a question was promptly given over the phone.
QUESTION PAPER PUZZLE
THE MISSING MARKS
Final-year arts students appearing for the travel and tourism paper in French on Thursday realised that the question paper was incomplete
GAFFES IN THE PAST
This year,another paper setter had goofed up.On Saturday,post-graduate students across nine exam centres received the question papers of an exam that was scheduled 10 days later.First-year MSc students were handed over the environment science Paper-IV instead of Paper-I.The goof-up took place because the paper-setter wrongly put Paper-IV in the envelope that was meant for Paper-I
ACTION TAKEN NOW
The university will raise the matter in the board of examinations and ask the paper setter to explain
Times View: Total lack of accountability
Its a new low for the university.What happened is inconceivable even in a school internal examination.The recurrence of goof-ups points to a total lack of accountability among a section of teachers and officials.The university is fortunate that this has happened in a subject that not too many students opt for;there would have been far more grief had it been a subject that needed multiple exam centres.But that does not detract from the gravity of the error.The university needs to deal with this in such a manner that would act as a precedent and preempt a recurrence.
Source; TOI Mumbai
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