Chandigarh, January 5
The CBSE will not upload the answer keys for the next All-India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT) as well. Last year’s undergraduate medical entrance exam had as many as seven ambiguous questions, following which students and teachers demanded uploading of the answer keys before the declaration of results to confirm their answers.
While the board uploaded the OMR sheets of the candidates, it did not upload the answer keys.
Apprehending some scope for ambiguity for the AIPMT to be held on May 4 this year, there has been a continuous demand of students and teachers to upload the answer keys before the results.
However, replying to an RTI query, the CBSE said the calculation sheet, along with the keys, would be provided to the candidates only after the declaration of results and that too under the Right to Information Act (RTI), 2005.
Local academician Dr Arvind Goyal, who filed the RTI, said many errors had crept in inadvertently in the CBSE PMT in recent years despite the best effort by the board. Last year’s National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET), now called AIPMT, had seven ambiguous questions, which led to major confusion among students and teachers.
“The CBSE, therefore, must evolve a system that can allow students and teachers to send objections to the board and corrections, if any, can be made in the answer keys before starting of evaluation of the OMR sheets,” he said.
Uploading of answer keys was the first step towards transparency and the CBSE must take some initiative in that direction rather than turning it down, he said.
Parkash Gupta, a PMT aspirant from the city, said the Chandigarh Pre-Medical Test had the provision of inviting objections from the public regarding the ambiguous questions or erroneous answers within a stipulated time period. Panjab University, Chandigarh, which used to conduct the Chandigarh PMT, also used to upload the answer keys before the declaration of results.
“The CBSE must have similar mechanism to address the ambiguous questions. In the absence of such a system, thousands of students suffer every year. They remain confused about the possible answers of the erroneous and ambiguous questions, which many a times has more than one option as correct answers,” he said.
The CBSE will not upload the answer keys for the next All-India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT) as well. Last year’s undergraduate medical entrance exam had as many as seven ambiguous questions, following which students and teachers demanded uploading of the answer keys before the declaration of results to confirm their answers.
While the board uploaded the OMR sheets of the candidates, it did not upload the answer keys.
Apprehending some scope for ambiguity for the AIPMT to be held on May 4 this year, there has been a continuous demand of students and teachers to upload the answer keys before the results.
However, replying to an RTI query, the CBSE said the calculation sheet, along with the keys, would be provided to the candidates only after the declaration of results and that too under the Right to Information Act (RTI), 2005.
Local academician Dr Arvind Goyal, who filed the RTI, said many errors had crept in inadvertently in the CBSE PMT in recent years despite the best effort by the board. Last year’s National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET), now called AIPMT, had seven ambiguous questions, which led to major confusion among students and teachers.
“The CBSE, therefore, must evolve a system that can allow students and teachers to send objections to the board and corrections, if any, can be made in the answer keys before starting of evaluation of the OMR sheets,” he said.
Uploading of answer keys was the first step towards transparency and the CBSE must take some initiative in that direction rather than turning it down, he said.
Parkash Gupta, a PMT aspirant from the city, said the Chandigarh Pre-Medical Test had the provision of inviting objections from the public regarding the ambiguous questions or erroneous answers within a stipulated time period. Panjab University, Chandigarh, which used to conduct the Chandigarh PMT, also used to upload the answer keys before the declaration of results.
“The CBSE must have similar mechanism to address the ambiguous questions. In the absence of such a system, thousands of students suffer every year. They remain confused about the possible answers of the erroneous and ambiguous questions, which many a times has more than one option as correct answers,” he said.
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