Fewer state board students may enter top engg colleges
Their Poor Show In Class XII Gives CBSE Applicants An Edge This Year
Ragu.Raman@timesgroup.com 03.06.2019
Poor performance in the Class XII examination may cost state board students seats in top engineering colleges this year. Only one-fifth of students have scored more than 95% in Class XII compared to last year, an analysis of class XII exam results shows. This puts CBSE students, who secured higher marks, at an advantage and the top colleges may admit fewer students from the state board.
Out of 8 lakh students, 931 got above 575 marks (95%) compared to 5,178 students in the previous year. While 231 students scored above 98% in 2018, only 31 got 590-plus out of 600 this year, results data obtained through RTI showed.
Compared to 2017, the number of centum scorers fell sharply in 2019 with no student getting full marks in biology. In Physics, 14 got full marks while in maths 65 scored a centum. The number of centum in chemistry came down from 1,123 in 2017 to just 80 this year.
Teachers said a new question paper pattern in the Class XII exam led to the poor performance. “Questions resembled those asked by CBSE board exams with many of them application-oriented. The question paper pattern made it difficult for the students to score high marks in the exams,” a teacher said.
Also, in a reversal of sorts, the CBSE and ISC boards called for a ‘liberal evaluation’ of answer scripts owing to which many students scored higher marks and the number of centum was more compared to previous years.
Out of the 1,33,166 students who have applied for engineering counselling this year, 12,000 are from CBSE, up by 60% from last year, and 500 are from other boards. Last year, the number of applicants from CBSE was 7,500.
Career consultants said this would affect the state board students in getting admission to top engineering colleges and other professional courses such as veterinary science and agriculture.
“We can expect 10% to 15% more students from other boards joining top engineering colleges this year,” said Jayaprakash A Gandhi, career consultant. The collective poor performance may bring down the engineering cut-off this year. “It will come down by five marks to 15 marks at different levels,” Gandhi said.
The performance of state board students was a direct result of the directorate of government examinations’ sudden move to change the question paper pattern putting scores of students at a disadvantage. “The pattern was not introduced in the quarterly or half-yearly exams. The students were in for a surprise,” educational consultant D Nedunchezhiyan told TOI.
Schools said due to the new question paper pattern, the CBSE students are better placed for admission this year. “Following the CBSE, state board introduced higher order thinking skills (HOTS) based questions in Class XII exams. But CBSE and ISC had adopted moderation and liberal evaluation which have put state board students at a disadvantage,” a principal of a matriculation school said.
Professor Rita John from department of theoretical physics at University of Madras said even the so-called bright students were not able to answer application-oriented questions due to lack of understanding of the concepts. “Blueprint method has made way for rote learning at schools. The revised textbooks will give students concept-based learning and if properly practised, students would be able to answer all the questions,” she said.
Their Poor Show In Class XII Gives CBSE Applicants An Edge This Year
Ragu.Raman@timesgroup.com 03.06.2019
Poor performance in the Class XII examination may cost state board students seats in top engineering colleges this year. Only one-fifth of students have scored more than 95% in Class XII compared to last year, an analysis of class XII exam results shows. This puts CBSE students, who secured higher marks, at an advantage and the top colleges may admit fewer students from the state board.
Out of 8 lakh students, 931 got above 575 marks (95%) compared to 5,178 students in the previous year. While 231 students scored above 98% in 2018, only 31 got 590-plus out of 600 this year, results data obtained through RTI showed.
Compared to 2017, the number of centum scorers fell sharply in 2019 with no student getting full marks in biology. In Physics, 14 got full marks while in maths 65 scored a centum. The number of centum in chemistry came down from 1,123 in 2017 to just 80 this year.
Teachers said a new question paper pattern in the Class XII exam led to the poor performance. “Questions resembled those asked by CBSE board exams with many of them application-oriented. The question paper pattern made it difficult for the students to score high marks in the exams,” a teacher said.
Also, in a reversal of sorts, the CBSE and ISC boards called for a ‘liberal evaluation’ of answer scripts owing to which many students scored higher marks and the number of centum was more compared to previous years.
Out of the 1,33,166 students who have applied for engineering counselling this year, 12,000 are from CBSE, up by 60% from last year, and 500 are from other boards. Last year, the number of applicants from CBSE was 7,500.
Career consultants said this would affect the state board students in getting admission to top engineering colleges and other professional courses such as veterinary science and agriculture.
“We can expect 10% to 15% more students from other boards joining top engineering colleges this year,” said Jayaprakash A Gandhi, career consultant. The collective poor performance may bring down the engineering cut-off this year. “It will come down by five marks to 15 marks at different levels,” Gandhi said.
The performance of state board students was a direct result of the directorate of government examinations’ sudden move to change the question paper pattern putting scores of students at a disadvantage. “The pattern was not introduced in the quarterly or half-yearly exams. The students were in for a surprise,” educational consultant D Nedunchezhiyan told TOI.
Schools said due to the new question paper pattern, the CBSE students are better placed for admission this year. “Following the CBSE, state board introduced higher order thinking skills (HOTS) based questions in Class XII exams. But CBSE and ISC had adopted moderation and liberal evaluation which have put state board students at a disadvantage,” a principal of a matriculation school said.
Professor Rita John from department of theoretical physics at University of Madras said even the so-called bright students were not able to answer application-oriented questions due to lack of understanding of the concepts. “Blueprint method has made way for rote learning at schools. The revised textbooks will give students concept-based learning and if properly practised, students would be able to answer all the questions,” she said.
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