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  • ‘75% Inter answer scripts evaluated incorrectly’

    HYDERABAD: Seventy-five per cent of answer scripts of Intermediate Public Examination-2010, were evaluated incorrectly by junior lecturers, revealed a report prepared by the Board of Intermediate Education (BIE). Alarmingly, the report has raised several doubts about the Inter evaluation process and has come out just a month before the commencement of IPE-2011.

    Around 1.10 crore answer scripts of 18 lakh (first and second year) students are evaluated every year by the Intermediate Board. And the report revealed that over 75 per cent papers were evaluated carelessly by lecturers.

    According to the report which was prepared by an internal committee of BIE officials, in 45 per cent of the answer scripts, students were given zero marks for right answers. Also, in 40 per cent of answer scripts, several answers were not awarded marks. The report also stated there were tabulation errors in 20 per cent of the answer scripts.

    With the report stating that 16 to 24 per cent of the lecturers who evaluated answer scripts have done wrong assessment of students performance, the students from junior colleges petitioned BIE stating the lecturers who committed errors should not be allowed to evaluate scripts this year. “We are worried that our Eamcet ranks would suffer,” said Deeksha Charan, a student of a private junior college in the city. The report also stated that 25 per cent of examiners did not evaluate parts of the answer scripts of several students.

    As intermediate marks are considered while awarding ranks to students who write Eamcet, the error report is expected to be taken seriously by Damodar Raja Narasimha, minister of higher education and technical education. Sources said that the minister is already reconsidering the introduction 25 per cent weightage for Inter marks in Eamcet.

    Interestingly, according to the review, while most students were marked low, some of them were even marked high by them.

    When asked about the evaluation errors, BIE officials said that they are conducting special training sessions for inter evaluators at the state and district level to prevent such discrepancies. “Since the past 15 days BIE has been conducting training sessions for junior lecturers,” a BIE official said.

    However, members of government junior college lecturers association said that evaluation errors can be avoided only if the number of evaluators increase. While there is a requirement of 80,000 evaluators only 35,000 are currently available with the board. “Each of the evaluators are forced to go through several scripts in a day and they commit errors,” said Madusudan Reddy, secretary, government junior college lecturers association. He added that only lecturers with three years of teaching experience should be allowed to value the scripts.

    A high level cabinet committee is currently going through the report submitted by the board to decide whether, 25 per cent weightage need to be retained in the state’s education system.

    Source : TOI

  • Private college reps in Inter exam monitory bodies.

    HYDERABAD: District examination committees set up as monitory bodies for the conduct of Intermediate Public Examination (IPE) are now allegedly having illegal tie ups with private junior colleges. In four districts in Telangana __ Karimanagar, Ranga Reddy, Adilabad and Mahbubnagar __ several committee members are now alleged to be representatives of private colleges.

    Just one week before the commencement of IPE’s practical examinations, the committees might get dismantled for their alleged tie-up with private parties, Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) officials said.

    Junior college lecturers have submitted petitions to BIE officials complaining that not only were the committees constituted arbitrarily but also junior teachers were recruited as against senior ones. Most of the teachers chosen had tie ups with private junior colleges, lecturers’ associations alleged.

    While some of the lecturers selected in the DECs had earlier been rendering their teaching services in private junior colleges some are even known for their private tuitions.

    Sources said that while in Ranga Reddy district examination committee, a junior lecturer was selected even when there are over 14 others who are senior to him. In Karimnagar, the seniority of 10 senior lecturers were superseded by one junior lecture who was favoured by private managements.Interestingly, there are around 15 such cases in the districts.

    According to government college representatives who have taken up the matter with G Balaramaiah, secretary, Board of Intermediate Education, some of those selected do not have a clean track record of service.

    DEC is responsible for the conduct of intermediate public examinations in each of the districts. It deputes chief examiners for valuation of answer scripts and even constitutes the flying and sitting squads which are in charge of checking malpractice during the examinations.

    A similar instance of seniority violation in 2007 had led to an intermediate question paper leak in Ranga Reddy district.

    “The board is doing the same mistake all over again and is allowing people without clean track records to conduct public examinations,” said an office bearer of the Telangana Government Junior Lecturers’ association. As the DEC is also in charge of conducting theory examinations which will be held in March, the lecturers have asked the BIE to reconstitute the committees as soon as possible.

    When asked about the issue, G Balaramaiah said the matter was brought to his notice three days ago. “The seniority matter in Ranga Reddy is settled. If there are more districts with such a problem, we will reconstitute the committees. But there is no chance of any rigging or other such malpractice to take place,” said Balaramaiah.

    Source : TOI

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