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HC awards 20 marks to NEET candidate
Somdatta.Basu TNN
Kolkata 28.12.2018
: The Calcutta high court, in a recent order, awarded 20 marks to a NEET 2018 candidate after Calcutta University informed the court that Bengali translations of five questions appeared erroneous.
The candidate, Wasim Akram Hossain, had attempted all these five questions and got four answers wrong. The HC, in its order passed on December 20, ruled that Hossain be given 16 marks for the four wrongly worded questions and four more marks to offset negative marking on those questions.
“Denying him marks on the contention he ought to have compared with the questions set in English would be unjust. Firstly, because an examinee, in examination to find out depth of knowledge, will not readily think the question is wrong. Second, comparison would then present such an examinee with more difficulty,” Justice Arindam Sinha observed while passing the order.
However, the candidate, who took the NEET (undergraduate) test in Bengali, now plans to move the HC division bench pleading that not just five, but 98 out of the 180 questions were wrongly translated.
Justice Sinha raised specific queries regarding the erroneous Bengali translation of the five questions.
For instance, question 14 in the English questionnaire specifically mentioned unpolarized light, while the Bengali translation said only light. In the light of this question, Justice Sinha asked the CU and CBSE to clarify whether reflection and refraction of light, incident on a plain surface, is possible in both cases.
On the second question (no 30), the HC pointed out that while the English question asked for rate of production of heat, the translated question asked for the measure of kinetic energy.
HC awards 20 marks to NEET candidate
Somdatta.Basu TNN
Kolkata 28.12.2018
: The Calcutta high court, in a recent order, awarded 20 marks to a NEET 2018 candidate after Calcutta University informed the court that Bengali translations of five questions appeared erroneous.
The candidate, Wasim Akram Hossain, had attempted all these five questions and got four answers wrong. The HC, in its order passed on December 20, ruled that Hossain be given 16 marks for the four wrongly worded questions and four more marks to offset negative marking on those questions.
“Denying him marks on the contention he ought to have compared with the questions set in English would be unjust. Firstly, because an examinee, in examination to find out depth of knowledge, will not readily think the question is wrong. Second, comparison would then present such an examinee with more difficulty,” Justice Arindam Sinha observed while passing the order.
However, the candidate, who took the NEET (undergraduate) test in Bengali, now plans to move the HC division bench pleading that not just five, but 98 out of the 180 questions were wrongly translated.
Justice Sinha raised specific queries regarding the erroneous Bengali translation of the five questions.
For instance, question 14 in the English questionnaire specifically mentioned unpolarized light, while the Bengali translation said only light. In the light of this question, Justice Sinha asked the CU and CBSE to clarify whether reflection and refraction of light, incident on a plain surface, is possible in both cases.
On the second question (no 30), the HC pointed out that while the English question asked for rate of production of heat, the translated question asked for the measure of kinetic energy.
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