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More ‘mistakes’ in EAMCET

Objection to 9 questions in engineering and medical papers

New ‘mistakes’ in addition to the six already accepted
‘Ambiguous questions will affect government college students’

HYDERABAD: Teachers of private colleges have raised objections to nine questions in both the engineering and medical papers of the EAMCET this year.

These questions are in addition to the six mistakes already accepted by the EAMCET Committee through its initial key that was released on Saturday.

K.V. Raghunath, Academic Director of Narayana Educational Institutions, said that question number 102 in the physics paper and 158 in the chemistry paper of engineering stream too were wrong and they too should be deleted.

In the medical stream too six questions in the physics paper were either ambiguous or were from out of syllabus while question number 31 in botany paper had two correct answers and both should be considered correct.

Incorrect option

In the physics paper there was no correct option given for question number 88. In question number 89, statement given in assertion was out of syllabus while question number 94 was framed wrongly so there can be no correct answer for a wrong question though students could attempt the question.

Question number 98 was also from outside the prescribed book of the Telugu Akademi.

While question number 104 was wrong, the data given in question number 107 was also wrong leading to a negative answer.

Dr. Raghunath said most of these questions could be answered by the students of corporate colleges as they have access to study material from outside but students in Government colleges and rural areas who stick to the Telugu Akademi books will lose out due to these ambiguous and out of syllabus questions.

Change in key

He said there was also a change in the key released to the media and the one put on the website for reference. This was related to question number 102 in physics paper. He argued that entrance tests are also about time management and because of ambiguous questions students would have wasted lot of time, which could affect their overall performance.

The EAMCET-2008 Convenor, E. Saibaba Reddy, however, welcomed the observations and said they would be looked into by the subject experts.

He said the key was prepared by a committee of experts who were not paper setters.

Similarly, the objections raised and observations made by teachers and students on the initial key would be studied by another group of experts who will finalise the final key.

He said last year 15 objections were raised but none of them stood the scrutiny of the subject experts.

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