With Eamcet-III imminent, the new Convenor and the Chairman of the examination now face a big challenge of identifying new examiners to set the question papers ensuring that they don’t repeat questions from AP-Eamcet, TS-Eamcet-I, TS-Eamcet-II and also the Eamcets of 2014 and 2015.
The examiners hired by the conducting authorities have to ensure that they cannot also copy from any guide available in the market. It means they have to create new questions and it will be a huge exercise, more so with increasing scrutiny of parents, students and the media.
The exercise of preparing the paper is quite elaborate. People with experience and integrity have to be identified for creating quality questions and also maintaining the secrecy. Another condition is that none of them should be in service and not associated with any coaching centre. They also have to give an undertaking that none of their relatives will be appearing for the test. “It is difficult to find quality paper setters fulfilling the criterion in the present circumstances,” a professor associated with Eamcet earlier said.
As per the practice, two subject experts from each subject – chemistry, physics, botany and zoology – are called by the Eamcet chairman and convenor to a secret location and asked to prepare 160 questions to accommodate them in four sets. They have to reframe questions, even the four choices given also have to be bit different from the previous papers except the right answer.
The process is monitored by the chairman and convenor personally. The questions are handwritten, adjusted in each set to make it a full-fledged paper and immediately sealed. Neither the convenor nor the chairman gets to see questions. Out of the four sets the chairman blindly picks up two sets that are taken by the convenor to the printer.
