POST 3- A MAIL TO THE CBSE

Here is a mail of mine to CBSE (ce.cbse2014@gmail.com; directoracad.cbse@nic.in) fighting against the cruelty of exam-setters for our math paper!

ir/Madam,
Mathematics is a skill which can only be improved through experience. Such experience cannot be gained in even 15 years (my age), let alone be a year (2015-16), or term (term 2)!!!

In such cases, we students can only hope to solve previous year question papers and NCERT questions to face the claws of Board Examinations. This is what we did. However, to our extreme disappointment, the paper-setters have failed us by not being able to understand our needs or the fact that we can't solve Mathematics for the entire day.

For example, question 27 in set-A/question 26 in set-B/question 22 in set-C has been taken from NCERT Textbook- Optional Exercise 5.4 ("The houses in a row" problem). The last line (footnote) of the exercise CLEARLY STATES- "NOT FROM THE EXAMINATION POINT OF VIEW" Then how can you expect us to know this question. CBSE has clearly deceived us.

The message has already spread to CBSE students, throughout the country and it continues to do so.

Time-Limit: Yet another issue in the mathematics examination is the time-limit. The examination setters, who are experts in Mathematics, believe that what they can do in 3 hours is possible for all students. This is obviously wrong. CBSE, which is a highly reputed organization needs to understand the needs of all sorts of students- week/strong/studious/mischievous!!!

Looks like we 10th standard students weren't the only once disappointed...you would have surely felt the anger of 12th standard students!!!

I expect improvement in CBSE apart from expecting lenient correction and free marks in the above mentioned question

Thank You,

Yours sincerely,
    A Student (that's me!)