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Cuttack, March 13: The Board of Secondary Education (BSE) finds itself in a spot after it emerged that several question papers in the recently-concluded matriculation examinations had erroneous questions.
A miffed board sought replies from officials after complaints from students regarding Mathematics, Science and Sanskrit question papers.
Senior teachers said the science paper had three wrong questions:
1) Name the two mediums in which light travels fastest and slowest respectively.
None of the options had the correct answer.
2) Electrolysis is not needed for which medium?
The correct answer was missing from the options.
3) An electron moving southwards would take which direction if it enters into the north pole of a magnetic field?
Experts said the question is incomplete, and therefore wrong.
Similarly in the mathematics paper, one question asked for possibility instead of probability, and in the same paper, another question — Set A (21), Set B (5), Set C (41) – was incomplete.
Some teachers alleged the Sanskrit question paper carried one wrong question (No-37) and about 25 ‘out-of-syllabus’ questions were framed.
Meanwhile, in his report, a senior board official admitted to some erroneous questions creeping into the Mathematics paper.
When asked, BSE president DP Nanda dismissed the allegations and said there was only one wrong question in the Sanskrit paper. However, he said experts have been asked to submit their feedback over the wrong questions.
Experts said such issues are not new to the BSE, which has in the past grappled with question paper leaks, faulty evaluation of answersheets and shoddy conduct of examinations.