You could always reproduce the answer sheets in your support.
How bad your scribe has written for you.
New Delhi: Examination answer sheets must be made public under the Right
to
Information (RTI) Act, the Supreme Court has ruled.
"This will be applicable to all examinations by public agencies in India,"
said lawyer Divya Jyoti Jaipuriar, who argued on behalf of two
non-governmental organizations after a student who filed the case lost
interest in sustaining the litigation.
On Tuesday, a bench comprising justices R.V. Raveendran and A.K. Patnaik
dismissed petitions filed by various public examination agencies while
upholding a 2009 judgement of the Calcutta high court.
The move will help make the education system more transparent and
administrators more accountable, said Sobha Mishra, head of education at
industry lobby Ficci.
"If someone sat for an exam, he should not be denied the right to see his
answer paper once the result is out. No institute or exam-conducting body
should ever resist such disclosure," she said.
In 2007, Pritam Rooz, a student of University of Calcutta, filed an RTI
application seeking the disclosure of his answer sheet. His request was
denied due to university policy.
He then approached the high court, where a single judge and a two-judge
bench ruled that the university should release the answer sheets.
The Central Board of Secondary Education, the West Bengal Board of
Secondary
Education, the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education, the
University of Calcutta, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India,
the
West Bengal School Service Commission and the Assam Public Service
Commission appealed against the high court's ruling in the apex court.
Rooz, however, did not pursue the case in the Supreme Court. Mazdoor Kisan
Shakti Sangathan, a society that had campaigned for transparency in the
form
of the RTI law, and Joint Operation for Social Help, a student help group,
took on the case.
Subsequently, other institutions that conduct tests also joined the case
and
opposed the disclosure of corrected answer sheets.
They argued that evaluated answer sheets are not covered under
"information"
as defined in the RTI Act, and that releasing these papers will lead to a
collapse of the system.
The court noted that several universities that disclose corrected answer
sheets on request haven't faced such a collapse. It also said it is the
duty
of public authorities to allow maximum disclosure as envisaged by the RTI
Act
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Amit Bhatt" <misterbh...@gmail.com>
To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in>
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 11:06 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] problem in examinations:
Hello Vidhya,
We understand your problems and the pain you are suffering with.
Akhilesh, we should also include such example before producing the
representation.
Our Examination system has lot of errors and unnecessary barriers I
believe.
The fight has been begun and let us move forward step by step.
Regards,
Amit Bhatt
----- Original Message -----
From: "vidhya y" <vidhya....@gmail.com>
To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in>
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 8:07 PM
Subject: [AI] problem in examinations:
Dear sir/madam,
previously I had introduced myself that I am studying Bca first sem
in Christ University Bangalore.
I have 8 subjects, out of which 2 are practical subjects.
At first everything went on good but now I am not able to get good
result for my efforts.
In Christ university Rules prescribed by the UGC are being followed,
the rules state that the scribe must be one grade lower than the
student and if seniors they should be from a totaly different
stream.
1: I have Mathematics which is advanced and cannot be dictated to
any of the juniors, and its difficult to train a junior as they also
have to concentrate on their studies.
2: Digital computer fundamentals is fully based on circuits and
calculations which cannot even be dictated to a junior computer
science student.
3: electronics is full of diagrams and circuits which is tricky and
needs a lot of hard work.
4: C programming this subject is quite simple but it becomes complex
when dictated to a non computer science student:
I have just finished the midsem exam, when i was dictating symbols
in C like \,{,},||,&&,# etc my scribe was not able to understand.
generally in english we write sentences by giving space between every
word, but in c every space makes a difference.
while declaring variables space is not permited, but in printf and
scanf statements its permited but how would I know what my scribe
must have understood when I told any statement?
when I told my scribe to write %d in symbols she had written
percent D in words but how do I know that?
5. only English and Statistics can be easily conveyed to my scribe.
when I tryed to explain to the examination office in the college,
They are very strict about rules of UGC.
every day I study till 11.30 pm and work so hard, but what is the use
when I am not permited to write what ever I know?
When I try to explain people about that, I always receive the same
answer:
" science is difficult you should have taken other cources!?"
"why do you worry when you are able to get more than 85% marks in most
of the suhbjects inspite of the difficulties why do you want more in
all subjects?"
but my question is Why shouldn't I want more when i have studied
everything?
this is really discouraging and I felt to change the course!
the rules cannot be made general for all subjects
in my 12th I had taken commerce I had no probblem if any science
stream student wrote exam for me because Accounts could be easily
explained if I had practiced a little.
Does it mean that Science is not for Vi students?
Why should I loose marks where I actualy should not loose?
Can any one give me a selution for this?
If people doubt that seniors who know the subject can write all the
answers and we get more marks, why dont they think if juniors write
the exam They wont even be able to read the question paper and we
unnecessarily loose marks?
waiting for any valuable suggestions.
Thankyou.
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