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  • Inter board wakes up to its blunder

    HYDERABAD: The Board of Intermediate Education has decided to make its evaluation process more stringent this year to minimise errors. The BIE officials on Wednesday announced that only senior lecturers would be appointed to evaluate the Inter answer papers this year so that the students would not suffer.

    The BIE has been reeling under allegations of several errors creeping into the evaluation of intermediate answer scripts. It was found that over 75 per cent of the answer scripts were evaluated incorrectly by junior lecturers last year.

    At a media briefing here, G Balaramaiah, secretary, BIE, said that since September 2010, eligible lecturers were given special training to ensure that answer papers this year would be evaluated properly. “Even on the first day of the examination, a model answer script and key will be given to each of the examiners so that they can evaluate the students without making mistakes. The chief examiner will value the answer scripts of students who get the lowest marks in each of the spot valuation centres to prevent errors,” secretary said. According to the secretary, 25 per cent of the answer scripts evaluated in each of the centres will be subjected to scrutiny of the chief examiners, a practice which was not followed earlier.

    Interestingly, the BIE officials are also planning to put up an answer key on the BIE website so that students and teachers can send in their suggestions to the board before finalising the model answer scripts.

    “There is a proposal to put up the answer key online. But this will have to be discussed further with stake holders including teachers and students,” said Balaramaiah. He added that five subject experts would prepare the answer key for each subject.

    The board announced that its practical examinations would begin on February 3 at 2,573 centres in the state. A total of 5,92,904 students will appear for practical examinations in both general and vocational streams.

    Stringent monitoring of practical examinations will also be undertaken by the board, secretary said.

    “There will be a total of 11,872 examiners for conducting the exams. Also to check the smooth conduct of the examinations, proceedings in some centres will be videographed and presented before the board,” said the secretary. Jumbling in practical examinations may be introduced from 2011-12 academic year if all the colleges have enough lab facilities.

    Theory examinations will be held from March 7 to 21 at 2,397 centres.

    The secretary requested all political parties from Telangana, Andhra and Rayalaseema regions to allow the smooth conduct of IPE examinations as students from the state will not be allowed to appear for IIT-JEE, AIEEE and other all India examinations if intermediate examinations are not held on time.

    Source : TOI

  • Life skills set to be part of tech courses

    NEW CURRICULUM TO COME INTO FORCE IN JUNE Lack of inter-personal skills has been affecting the employment prospects of most engineering students.

    Inter-personal and life skills will be made part of the curriculum for engineering students from this year. At present, the curriculum for engineering courses is confined to making students “technologically sound” with no focus on developing their inter-personal skills.

    Sources point out that lack of inter-personal skills has been affecting the employment prospects of most engineering students and employers are having to spend 25 per cent of their expenses on training these students on inter-personal and life skills after recruiting them.

    The AICTE has appointed an 11-member committee to examine the issue and devise the new curriculum.

    JNTU-Hyderabad Vice Chancellor, Prof D.N. Reddy, is one of the members of the committee and is also heading the sub-committee on engineering sciences. The committee will draft the new curriculum by March, which would be approved in April. The new curriculum will come into force from the new academic year in June.

    From this year, for the first time, there will be a uniform curriculum for the entire country and all engineering colleges will have to adopt a semester and grading system for exams.

    “Ten per cent of the new curriculum will comprise humanities like inter-personal and life skills. The other 15 per cent will be in basic science subjects like mathematics, 25 per cent in engineering sciences and 40 per cent on core subjects.
    The objective is to integrate humanities into engineering curriculum and to make engineers well-rounded individuals apart from making the course interesting,” said Prof. Reddy.

    He said unlike management students, who are taught inter-personal skills as part of curriculum, engineering students are usually known for their lack of communication skills.

    “During campus placements, most companies complain about the poor communication skills of engineering students though they are technically sound.

    The new curriculum will bridge the gap between the academia and industry,” Prof. Reddy added.

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