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Confusion marks exam day in schools

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Posted: Feb 09, 2008 at 0248 hrs IST

Chandigarh, February 8 Confusion reigned supreme after a number of errors were noticed in the Class VIII Mathematics exam paper. The students were forced to wait for more than an hour, before the mistakes were rectified by department officials. Education department officials said that five marks will be provided to all the students.

The confusion began after the question papers were distributed. Amreek Singh, a student from Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 22, said, “Math’s is a scary subject. Such errors only helped compound the tension.”

Shikha, another student said, “ I forgot whatever I had studied. We also lost out on time due to the confusion.” Sources said that nearly five questions had errors. One of the three marks question had incorrect figures. Similar errors were reported in the other questions also.

The Director Public Instructions (schools) S K Setia, “We have received a lot of representations from the parents. We have decided to give all the students five marks.”

He added that an inquiry will be initiated to fix the responsibility and action would be taken against those responsible for the errors. Setia added said that no copying cases were reported from centers in the city.

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