Lack of transparency in the SCRA Exam

Special Class Railway Apprenctices' Examination (SCRA) is a very prestigious exam and SCRAs are selected through the Union Public Service Commission Examination conducted every year. At present, Special Class Railway Apprentices follow the four-year (8-semester) Mechanical Engineering Degree Course of Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi.

At the successful completion of their course they are awarded the regular BE (Mech) Degree of BIT Mesra. There are limited numbers of seats available for candidates however the way candidates are shortlisted raises lot of questions about the exam.

In the recently declared result of SCRA written test the candidates’ marks are not declared and short listed candidates are supposed to appear for interview which is 200 marks. A final merit list will be prepared by totaling the written marks (600) and Interview marks (200). The problem lies with interview marks which are very subjective in nature and there seems a lot of scope for manipulation in the hands of interview panel. UPSC should get away with interview marks in order to bring complete transparency in the exam. 

IIT JEE NOT TO HAVE WEIGTHAGE OF 12 BOARD

The sources informed that the statistical experts from ISI Kolkata through analysis of Class 12 marks of various boards have concluded that the marks scored across the boards can not be compared as there was hardly any correlation among the marks scored by the candidates from the various boards.

Hence, they have discarded normalization as well as any Percentile (Rank) based Scheme, as used in DST’s Innovation of Science Pursuit for Research (INSPIRE) which unlike JEE is not competitive.

Combining 12^th standard marks in the selection merit will bring the same 100% cut-off fiasco as recently witnessed by DU, as there are many boards, which will start inflating their marks, in such a way so as to neutralize the normalization impact. There does not exist any effective mechanism to normalize the marks, as was witnessed in BITS Pilani, where there were 70% students from a single board despite the normalization.

STUDENTS MOVING TO 12 ARE AT A BIGGER LOSS

An appeal to Mr Kapil Sibal to stop the blatant misuse of the word like “ National” and “Olympiad” by private bodies

 

National word should be used for the exam conducted by the government bodies. However these days observed that this word used by private bodies to meet their vested interest. There are lots of private bodies such as Science Olympiad Foundation. Unified Council and even private coaching which conduct various talent search examinations and used restrictive words like national, Olympiad

CBSE to publish AIEEE answer sheets online

From 2012, students appearing for AIEEE will be able to view his/her answer sheet on the official website a few days after the results are declared.

To ensure transparency in the examination system, Union ministry of human resource development has come up with an initiative of publishing answer sheets online. HRD has directed CBSE to make necessary arrangements for it.

Experts say that thousands of students reappear in the exam every year to score better marks. After assessing their answer sheets, students will be in a better position to evaluate their performance.

All India Engineering Entrance Exam (AIEEE) scheduled on April 29, 2012, will be conducted online.

This move has come after RTI was filled by Mr Nilesh Gupta a RTI activist responsible for bringing major transformation changes in education , AIEEE has never disclosed its official answer key and kept the students in dark for so many years,
CBSE in order to avoid and further embarrassment of CIC has decided to go ahead with move

EDUCATION CITY is not safe for conducting AIEEE-Pritam Singh

AIEEE Director,Mr.Pritam Singh declares Kota is not safe place to conduct AIEEE exam.
Please SMS your feelings to his mobile no.
Pritam Singh - 09968275220

Initially AIEEE exam has been conducted 8 times in Kota without any discrepancy.In past years we have noted the discrepancy in AIEEE conduction at some centers still they are continued for AIEEE centers. If we take the example of last year (2010-11) paper was out and students have to face many problems and re-conduction of exam was also done at some of the centers.
Every years approx 60000 students come to Kota for preparation of AIEEE and at the last moment they have to rush to various cities to take the exam.

Kota is the education hub for engineering and medical aspirants.Kota is the center of most of the exam held by government of India.

CBSE refuses to disclose the answer key of AIEEE

in a reply to RTI asking for the answer key of AIEEE 11 , CBSE has refused the applicant citing larger public interests as a reason, what interest it is going to serve by not coming out with the official answer key is not understood . It seems the apex body of education is not open to transparency and public scrutiny. It is high time the MHRD take serious steps to tighten the officials sitting at CBSE and make them understand that they are accountable to public at large.

Use RTI to find the answer key of AIEEE 11

                                                                                                                                                                        Date: ____June 2011

To,

Public Information Officer
G.L. Mittal
Asst. Secretary (AIEEE)
Central Board of Secondary Education,
PS 1-2, Institutional Area, IP Extension, Patparganj
Delhi 110 092, Phone: 011-22246095,

File Ref No: RTI/AIEEE/1

Sub: Information seeking under Right to Information Act.

Dear Sir,

I am submitting this request exercising my RIGHT TO INFORMATION to provide me following information on AIEEE 11

1.      Please give the official answer key of AIEEE 11 .

2.      Please give the details of the corrections / suggestions/ mistakes reported by email/ post or any other form of communication to you.

Please let me know the expense required for seeking this information. I am already sending the Rs 10/ postal order with this RTI request.

Thanking you

________________________________      (Signature)

________________________________

________________________________            (Name & Permanent Address)

________________________________

Encl: Rs 10/ postal order No. ____________

एआइइइइ के उत्तर नहीं बताएगी सीबीएसई

एआइइइइ के उत्तर नहीं बताएगी सीबीएसई

नई दिल्ली, प्रेट्र : सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने अखिल भारतीय इंजीनियरिंग प्रवेश परीक्षा (एआइइइइ) के नतीजे से पहले परीक्षा में पूछे गए सवालों के जवाब सार्वजनिक करने के लिए केंद्रीय माध्यमिक शिक्षा बोर्ड (सीबीएसई) को निर्देश देने से इंकार कर दिया है। कोर्ट ने इस संबंध में परीक्षा में बैठे कुछ छात्रों की ओर से दाखिल याचिका शुक्रवार को खारिज कर दी। इस याचिका पर सुनवाई करते हुए न्यायाधीश बी.एस. चौहान और स्वतंत्र कुमार की पीठ ने छात्रों से कहा कि वे अपनी मांग के लिए बोर्ड के पास जाएं। छात्रों के वकील सोमेश अरोरा द्वारा रखी गई दलीलें पीठ को संतुष्ट नहीं कर पाई। इससे पहले भी सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने इस प्रवेश परीक्षा से संबंधित एक याचिका खारिज कर दी थी। प्रश्नपत्र लीक होने के बाद सीबीएसई ने दो चरणों में प्रवेश परीक्षा कराई थी। सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने बोर्ड को परिणाम घोषित करने का आदेश देते हुए कहा था कि फिर से परीक्षा कराने पर 10 लाख छात्रों
को परेशानी होगी
for more details log on to
http://in.jagran.yahoo.com/epaper/index.php?location=40&edition=2011-06-04&pageno=1 

Why CBSE does not release AIEEE official answer key ?

when IITs can release the answer key why can't CBSE releases the official answer key of AIEEE . In order to bring more transparency in to this exam CBSE should release the answer key at least one month before the result , should invite objections from the students and general public and then should release the revised answer key after considering all the objections/ suggestion . It seems CBSE is least bothered to improved its image. already the paper leakage has tarnished the image of CBSE and put a big question marks about its competency of conducting such a exam/

Errors in JEE 11 answer key

IIT JEE 2011 question no. 31 ( Paper - 2)

Correct option is only C, but according to the key issued by IIT JEE correct answers are C & D.
In D option according to the question paper-
Work done in moving unit positive charge from point A at potential  V_a to point B at potential V_b is V_b-V_a 
Correct definition must be - 
Work done in moving unit positive charge slowly or without acceleration or against the electrostatic force from point A at potential  V_a to point B at potential V_b is V_b-V_{a
NOTE : Underline words are missing}

IIT JEE- 2011 Paper-II Part-1: ChemistrySection-II

Question No. 12

The JEE answer is: CD

The experts answer is:  ABCD

Explanation:

H2/Ni/Heat can reduce Esters as well as amides in to corresponding alcohol and amines. The reactant given is a saturated compound. So it can undergo catalytic hydrogenation by many catalyst with out requiring any selectivity.  So options A & B should also be the answers.

References in support of above are :

1. W. Carruthers, 3^rd edition, page No. 416, Table No. 7.1
2. Organic chemistry by I.L. Finar (international Sudent Edition), Vol. –I, page No. 179, table No. 6.1
3. Molecules 2010, 15, 5139-5152; doi:10.3390/molecules15085139

http://www.scribd.com/doc/56059637/IIT-JEE-2011-Q12-Correction-by-VPM

AIEEE Petition in Supreme Court

"Dr. AP Sinha, retired professor of NIT Jamshedpur has filed petition in High Court in which HC though has not given the relief of conducting the exam. afresh in view of paper leak,

write your concerns to

send your mail to glmittal.cbse@nic.in,Pitams.cbse@nic.in,secy-cbse@nic.in, how do you feel about AIEEE paper being leaked 
you can also write to our HRD minister who is very busy with reforms on kapilsibal@hotmail.com;kapil@kapilsibal.com;ksibal@sansad.nic.in
you should also write to
Soniagandhi@sansad.nic.in;Smt.SoniaGandhi<10janpath@vsnl.net>;manmohan@sansad.nic.in

mess up AIEEE Contd.

"in the confusion of leakage of paper on 01 may the paper should be started at 12 noon  but at our centre KV rohini sec 8 it started at 1:00 pm and the teachers collect the omr answer sheet from us at 3:30 pm so we had not complete our exam properlly
so what action does take by the aieee at this situation "

Student

AIEEE Paper LeaK - INDIA SPEAKS

India is not now sovereign republic country it became SCAM CORRUPT REPUBLIC country.

BOKARO       das.umeshnarain@gmail.com

it is quite disgusting that it has been postponed for  three hours as there are many students who also have to appear at another exam of AFMC for medical. This will forced the student to choose one either aieee or afmc.It woud have been better for cbse to postpone it for another day.

delhi     akchohan47@rediffmail.com

different timings to students in AIEEE

KV INA colony Delhi School has given only 2.5 hours to candidates on 01 may 2011  to attempt AIEEE where the Ved Vyasa Public School has given 3.5 hours to students appearing from its centers. I have the stories coming from all around India about mis management of CBSE.

AIEEE aspirants get different time to attempt paper

In the utter confusion on 01 May 11 once again the mismanagement of the CBSE has come in to the picture. There is confirmed news from the sources which say that the AIEEE examination which was postponed to 12 Noon was not conducted in the fair way despite the tall claims made by CBSE. There are schools which allowed less than 3 hours to students in some cases not even complete 2 hours were provided to students. There are also reports that few schools have given even 3.5 Hrs to students. With this kind of abnormally CBSE can not call this is a fair exam. CBSE has to still answer how they are going to standardize 2 different tests.

With all such allegation mounting Supreme Court should intervene and detailed inquiry should be ordered till such time AIEEE second examination should be put on to hold

AIEEE leak create issues

Today there is AFMC exam also and thousands of students who opted for both AIEEE and AFMC exam will now have to forgo one of this exam for no fault of theirs. Is any body listening to their woes

MHRD messes up once again

In yet another case of mess up by MHRD. hon'ble  HRD minister who is better known for reforms which have resulted in more chaos in India then actually bringing about the requisite changes. After Last year IIT JEE fiasco, CCE, RTA and this year AIEEE also messed up. It is time to outsource it to some body else who can conduct the exam in the more professional and transparent way while  the MHRD officials sit in their ivory towers on the tax payers money. Right from education, aviation, health care, railways, CW games  every where the govt has proved its incompetency. We never had such consistent track records of mess ups in India before that. All credit goes to Govt.

AIEEE Leaked

The All India Engineering Entrance Examination question paper has been leaked following which the exam was delayed by three hours on Sunday.

The examination which was scheduled for 9:30 am on Sunday will now begin at 12:30 pm. Sources say that the question paper was being sold in the open market in Lucknow.

The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force has arrested one person in connection with the paper leak and are looking for further leads in the case.

This incident puts question mark on the credibility of CBSE , This also raises serious concerns about the modusoperandi of CBSE. People responsible behind this including CBSE officials should be put behind the bar. We also would to hear our erst while education Minister Mr Kapil sibal, a reform Champion , what he has to say about this.
send your mail to glmittal.cbse@nic.in,Pitams.cbse@nic.in,secy-cbse@nic.in, how do you fee about paper being leaked 
you can also write to our HRD minister who is very busy with reforms on kapilsibal@hotmail.com;kapil@kapilsibal.com;ksibal@sansad.nic.in
 

Credibility Erosion of Board of Secondary Education Rajasthan

This is a matter of great shame what has come to notice in the last 3 days regarding how Board of Secondary Education Rajasthan conducts its examination and how the copy checking happens. 

It is ironical despite all this nothing has been done to punish the Board officials.

Last time i wrote about practical examination where Board examiner charge any thing between Rs 200 to 300 from the students for giving marks in the practicals.

it seems nothing seems to be done about the same. Our in capability to take decisive action against culprits have eroded the credibility of the RBSE.


http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_rajasthan-gang-involved-in-tampering-with-board-copies-busted_1525492