By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Monday introduced the formation of an skilled committee to look at the ‘discrepancies’ within the analysis of Odia paper within the Term – I exams of Class X.
The board assured college students and fogeys that “an appropriate decision will be taken within 24 hours, on the basis of the report of the expert committee.”
Board officers mentioned they determined to contemplate the matter after receiving claims from a college that the reply key of Odia topic in Class X Term I Examination was mistaken.
The Board mentioned it communicated the efficiency of scholars in Class X Term-I examinations to all the faculties by March 11.
“Subsequently a dispute was received from a school regarding the Answer Key of Odia subject in Class X claiming that the answers given in the answer key for some of the questions are wrong,” said the Board in its assertion and clarified that to establish the factual place, “an expert committee has been constituted by the board which will examine the discrepancies raised in the representation.”
The officers knowledgeable that that they had already put a dispute redressal mechanism in place on the day the marks of Class X college students within the Term-I examination have been communicated to Schools to deal with the real problems with the scholars.
After the outcomes have been declared, various college students took to Twitter to lodge their grievance concerning the mistaken reply key within the paper.
“The answer key of Odia question paper had 12 answers wrong. The correction has not been done in the answer key,” claimed a scholar. Meanwhile, members of Odisha Abhibhabak Mahasangh additionally met the officers of CBSE at its regional workplace right here in search of grace marks of 17 for the scholars within the Odia paper.
“Answer of at least 17 questions in the answer key was wrong. This has affected nearly 7,000 students who had taken Odia as their optional paper. The Board should give grace mark of 17 to these students for the faulty evaluation,” mentioned Mahasangh chairperson Basudev Bhatt.
