HSC English paper goof-up: Students to get six marks

Staff Reporter

STUDENTS of Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) Examination will get 6 marks for the incorrect questions in English paper conducted on February 21, 2023, the very first day of the examination, announced Anuradha Oak, Secretary of Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education. Students who mentioned the question numbers in the paper or attempted the wrong question will be given these marks.

Board had convened a meeting of subject experts and regulators of all nine boards in the State. The meeting studied the report submitted by Joint Committee of the experts that had come to the conclusion that English paper had mistakes. Accordingly, Board decided to give 6 marks against these mistakes.

These marks will given to those students who either mentioned Poetry Section 2/Poetry/Section-2 in answersheet, or attempted to solve other questions in Poetry Section-2 or if the students wrote even the question numbers as A-3, A-4, A-5 in answersheet.

There were 10 marks for Question 3 (A) and 4 marks for 3 (B). In the Question paper 3 (A) had A-1, A-2, A-3, A-4, A-5, all carrying two marks each. Question A-3 , Question A-4, Question A-5 confused students as they were in answer format. According to one teacher, these questions were the specimen answers to be provided to the persons who do evaluation and not the questions.

“The questions were confusing. In fact, they were not the questions but were specimen answers. When students came across those questions, they were perplexed as what to write. I demand that the students who appeared in the examination but did not write the question number should also get all 6 marks. The marks to be given against incorrect questions should be given to all students,” pointed out Sapan Nehrotra, English Expert Teacher, Jupiter Science Junior College.