Objectivity in CBSE Questions Make it Easy

Objectivity in CBSE Questions

Objectivity in CBSE Questions Make it Easy to Score More, With the number of students scoring 90% and above crossing 21,000 this year in the Class XII Board results declared by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), experts associated with the process in the past and present feel that the evaluation process is being designed to artificially enhance performance.

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Objectivity in CBSE Questions

According to former consultants, present head examiners and examiners, excessive breakup of a question into small units makes scoring easier. A look at the marking schemes for board exams for Class XII available on the CBSE website bears out this criticism. If one studies the English sample paper, one can see that in Section A: Reading a passage (487 words) consisting of 7 paragraphs is the first question which carries 12 marks. Now, those 12 marks are actually divided among eight questions, four of which carry one mark each while the rest carry two marks each. That’s not all. Three of the questions also give a cue to the candidates as to which paragraph one should refer to for the answers. What more could you ask for!

CBSE provides the guidelines for evaluation and the head examiners undergo a day-long training. We more or less stick to the guidelines. In case of deviation of more than five marks, the head examiners take a call on moderation or reevaluation. For example, in my subject, that is physics, the marking scheme is 1, 2, 3 or 5 marks. But scoring gets easier not because of the marking scheme, but because of the question pattern . A five-mark question is divided into more than two questions and all of them are objective. Answers will be in one word or one sentence.

Source : The Times of India