CBSE posts AIEEE papers online, omits answer keys

Around 11 lakh students across India were able to view their engineering test answer sheets on Monday, but were unable to verify if their answers were correct.

Updated on: Jun 5, 2012, 01:12:37 IST

Hindustan Times | By Chetan Chauhan, New Delhi

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Around 11 lakh students across India were able to view their engineering test answer sheets on Monday, but were unable to verify if their answers were correct.

The CBSE, for the first time, posted the optical reading sheets (ORS) of students who appeared for the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) online. The AIEEE is the entrance test for most engineering institutes in the country, with the exception of the IITs.

The CBSE move came after the IITs, in May, placed the ORS on its website for students to evaluate their performance. However, unlike IITs, the CBSE did not post answer keys online, preventing students from evaluating their performance.

As compared to just five lakh students who appeared for the IIT Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), around 11 lakh appeared for AIEEE. Placing the ORS of so many students took a lot of space on the board’s server.

Nevertheless, placing answer keys — even provisional ones — would have helped students gauge their performance. Answer keys help ascertain the correctness of the question papers. The IITs had admitted to including four wrong questions in the JEE test this year after the answer keys were posted online.

Besides this, the CBSE refrained from placing the previous year’s question papers — with answers keys — in the public domain. This has increased the students’ dependence on coaching centres, even though the government has been trying to ensure that entrance tests evaluate students on the basis of their educational skills.

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Chetan Chauhan
Chetan Chauhan is the National Affairs Editor looking into all aspects of news and features from across India. A Chevening scholar with over three decades of experience in reporting and news management, Chetan has extensively covered all important aspects of the social sector, political economy, environment and climate change nationally and internationally. He did a journalism course at the Reuters Institute of Journalism in Oxford and Digital Media training at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He started as a reporter with The Statesman in 1996 and joined the Hindustan Times in 2000 in the metro bureau covering environment, crime and Delhi politics. He covered hot local news, from the Jessica Lal murder case to the rebellion of Delhi Congress MLAs against then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, to the replacement of toxic vehicle fuel with cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG) in the national capital. Some of his stories on air pollution became part of the Supreme Court’s landmark MC Mehta versus Government of India case in the National Capital Region (NCR), forcing the government to take corrective measures. As part of the national political bureau since 2004, he covered important central sectors such as environment, education, social justice, labour, rural development, water resources, renewable energy, agriculture, broadcasting and the Planning Commission for more than a decade producing several exclusive and investigative breaking stories. His specialisation is the environment, having covered at least a dozen United Nations global conferences on climate change, biodiversity and wildlife including climate summits in Paris, Copenhagen and Bali. He also covered India’s two five-year plans ---11th and 12th and reported on drafting and execution of right based laws such as Right to Education, Right to Information and rural job guarantee law, MG-NREGA, now being introduced in new format as VG-RAM-G Act. He has in-depth knowledge of social sector issues. He was one of the first to report on tigers vanishing from Sariska and Panna wildlife reserves in 2004 and 2008, respectively, leading to the setting up of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the introduction of stringent penal provisions for poaching. He has written extensively on the rising human-animal conflict in India and the degradation of India’s biodiversity hotspots because of mining and other activities. Since 2004, Chetan has covered Parliament comprehensively and participated in training on the nuanced coverage of Parliament proceedings. He has travelled extensively across India to cover national and provincial elections since 1998, especially in the Hindi heartland states, considered India’s road to power. He writes a regular column for Hindustan Times, Ecostani, on important national politics, economy, Himalayan ecology and environmental issues. His other responsibilities include providing inputs for edits and edit page articles for the publication, apart from managing news flow from across India.Read More

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