Errors in VTU exam question papers
The Hindu
Some students have complained that there were errors in the question papers for management and engineering examinations conducted by Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) on Saturday.MBA student
Some students have complained that there were errors in the question papers for management and engineering examinations conducted by Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) on Saturday. MBA students in a private college in the city complained that they got an old question paper for the fourth semester examination. Candidates of Public Relations subject of the fourth semester MBA realised that they had been given an older question paper. They informed the invigilators who called the centre head who, in turn, spoke to the VTU officers. They replaced the paper with a new version. But the students suffered anxiety and much of their time was lost. In the seventh semester Civil Engineering branch examination, the second question was missing.Several principals of government and private schools in Delhi on Tuesday said the Directorate of Education (DoE) circular from a day earlier, directing schools to conduct classes in ‘hybrid’ mode, had caused confusion regarding day-to-day operations as they did not know how many students would return to school from Wednesday and how would teachers instruct in two modes — online and in person — at once. The DoE circular on Monday had also stated that the option to “exercise online mode of education, wherever available, shall vest with the students and their guardians”. Several schoolteachers also expressed confusion regarding the DoE order. A government schoolteacher said he was unsure of how to cope with the resumption of physical classes, given that the order directing government offices to ensure that 50% of the employees work from home is still in place. On Monday, the Commission for Air Quality Management in the National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) had, on the orders of the Supreme Court, directed schools in Delhi-NCR to shift classes to the hybrid mode, following which the DoE had issued the circular. The court had urged the Centre’s pollution watchdog to consider restarting physical classes due to many students missing out on the mid-day meals and lacking the necessary means to attend classes online. The CAQM had, on November 20, asked schools in Delhi-NCR to shift to the online mode of teaching.