The CBSE on Monday disclosed the Optical Response Sheet (ORS) of the AIEEE 2012 without giving away the answer keys. This has drawn flak from the students who claim that such a disclosure is meaningless as they will not be able to ascertain the correctness of answers and calculate their scores.
Contrary to CBSE, the ORS at the recent IIT-JEE was accompanied with the answer keys, which enabled the students to assess their performances.
Even the State boards of UP, Karnataka, Kerala, West Bengal make available the answer keys. The coaching institutes too declare the answer keys on the same day of AIEEE examination, reminded the sources.
Sources pointed out that CBSE is hesitant about disclosing answer-keys even after over a month of examination, because there is fear of getting caught with wrong question answers.
In the past, many errors in the official keys were pointed out by the teachers, parents and other stakeholders in other exams, including in IIT-JEE too.
They pointed out that to check the correctness of the answer keys and bring in more transparency to the evaluation system, provisional answer keys should be released first. Then, based on the feedback, the answer keys should be frozen for final evaluation. State Boards of UP, Karnataka, Kerala, have been doing it for the past many years. While West Bengal has recently started such a process.
Further, even as CBSE provides question papers of previous years of Class X & XII boards on its website it does not make available this basic facility in connection with AIEEE. Lakhs of aspirants are thus compelled to depend on private publishers or coaching Institutes for past years to get AIEEE question papers and answer-keys.
Contrary to CBSE, the ORS at the recent IIT-JEE was accompanied with the answer keys, which enabled the students to assess their performances.
Even the State boards of UP, Karnataka, Kerala, West Bengal make available the answer keys. The coaching institutes too declare the answer keys on the same day of AIEEE examination, reminded the sources.
Sources pointed out that CBSE is hesitant about disclosing answer-keys even after over a month of examination, because there is fear of getting caught with wrong question answers.
In the past, many errors in the official keys were pointed out by the teachers, parents and other stakeholders in other exams, including in IIT-JEE too.
They pointed out that to check the correctness of the answer keys and bring in more transparency to the evaluation system, provisional answer keys should be released first. Then, based on the feedback, the answer keys should be frozen for final evaluation. State Boards of UP, Karnataka, Kerala, have been doing it for the past many years. While West Bengal has recently started such a process.
Further, even as CBSE provides question papers of previous years of Class X & XII boards on its website it does not make available this basic facility in connection with AIEEE. Lakhs of aspirants are thus compelled to depend on private publishers or coaching Institutes for past years to get AIEEE question papers and answer-keys.
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