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The Gujarat Common Entrance Test (GUJCET) held for the first
time in the State has run into one more controversy. This
time, a professor from a medical college has claimed that
two of the answers as set in the key-to-GUJCET are wrong,
which would pull down a student?s merit even if he has
marked the correct answers.
The Gujarat Secondary and Higher
Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB), which conducted GUJCET
on April 15, has prepared the key? the answer sheet, on the
basis of which each answer paper will be evaluated by the
computer. But the professor, who has managed to get a copy
of the key, says that it carries two wrong answers in two
different sections.
According to Dr J M Jadeja, Professor &
Head, Physiology Department, B J Medical College, for the
question number 32 in biology section, the answer as given
in the key is not correct. The question: If the potasium
channel is open and sodium channel is closed, what is the
condition of the membrane?
For the answer, there are four options:
(a) depolarisation, (b) resting membrane potential, (c)
repolariation, (d) polarisation. Jadeja says the correct
option is (c), but in the key it has been given as (b).
Similarly, the question number 33 in
physics section has four options but none of them is
correct. The question: The colour of the wave is due to
which quality of the wave? The answer options are: (a)
frequency, (b) velocity (c) vibraton, (d) wavelength. Jadeja
says none of the four options in this is correct, but the
key says option (a) is correct.
The evaluation of the answer paper is
done with help of an optical reader mark, which uses
magnetic chip to read the option selected by the student and
feeds it into the computer. The computer generates the
result and also prepares the merit list. Jadeja says the
inorrect options in these two questions will affect the
students.
??I submitted the correction to the
chairman of the board on April 19 and 20, but no action has
been taken so far. If the board continues with the same key,
it will affect the students badly,?? he said.
He says unless the options are corrected
by the board, the students who might have attempted the
questions correctly will lose ranks in the merit list. ??The
total number of seats in the State medical colleges is 875,
of which 15 per cent is reserved for all-India quota and
49.5 per cent for SC/ST and OBC categories. In this
backdrop, general students will lose out on getting seats,??
Jadeja said.
While GSHSEB chairman was not available
for comments, its secretary V B Nanavati said that they were
checking it. ??We have sent a fax to the exam wing and they
are verifying it,?? aid Nanavati.
The exam co-ordinator, Bharat Upadhyay,
however said that the claims made by the professor were
??not correct??. He said that the board was examining the
things before reaching any conclusion.
A similar case had happened in
Maharashtra in 2004, when the High Court had passed an order
to suspend the admissions and prepare fresh merit list after
doing reassessment.
Jadeja also said that the negative
marking concept in GUJCET would hamper students on the merit
list.
The questions in the three setions are
objective type and each of them carries one mark for correct
answer. But for each wrong answer, the student gets 0.25 as
negative mark. ??But actually, the total mark loss to the
student in case of a wrong answer is 1.25 marks,?? he
opined.
The GUJCET question paper has three
sections, each of which carries 40 marks, making the total
marks 120 for the paper.
News Source:
Yahoo.
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