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After maths, accounts paper adds to Class XII students woes
After the ‘tough and lengthy’ mathematics paper had students weeping across the country. The accounts paper has followed suit. While students across the country are bitter, the board has asked them to register complains to enable systematic inquiry.
A day after the CBSE Board announced it would take remedial measures before evaluating the "tough and lengthy" mathematics paper, which had students weeping across the country, similar scenes were witnessed outside several examination centres in the Bihar capital as 3 hours proved woefully inadequate to solve the 'lengthy' Accountancy paper for most of the Class XII commerce students on Thursday.
"Unlike maths, we knew how to solve the questions. However, the calculations were so lengthy that many could not even touch questions worth 15-20 marks," noted Ritika Agrawal of Notre Dame Academy. This led to students not even getting time to revise the answers of the questions they attempted.
Subject teachers acquiesced, saying that while average students would have surely found it difficult to solve the Accountancy paper in 3 hours, even the brightest students would have used up exactly 3 hours leaving no time for revision.
Many took to online portals such as 'www.complaintboard.in' to vent their anger and disappointment. One student wrote, "Can the teacher herself complete the paper in three hours?" Another asked, "Board…are you playing with the XII std students this year??? " (sic)
Poddar also complained students in Delhi and south India regions of CBSE were given a relatively shorter paper. "Is it some conspiracy against students in Bihar and Jharkhand?" he asked
While a senior official of the CBSE's Patna region defended the move to supply slightly different papers to different regions so as that in case of disturbances, if any, in one region, exams were not disturbed across the country. He added that, "Students can lodge complaints through their principals, but they need to understand that CBSE does raise the benchmark to filter extraordinary students from the most extraordinary," he said.
Another CBSE official shared that Feedback forms were available with all centre superintendents and students could register their queries/complaints with the Board so that they could be redressed systematically.
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