Official sources confirmed the move, but said the proposal was still in an embryonic stage and had to be discussed with higher-ups.
Pre-university students may soon have to cultivate the habit of restricting themselves to one main answer-script while writing examinations.
The department of pre-university education is contemplating implementing a ‘no additional sheet’ system in both I and II PU examinations.
Official sources confirmed the move, but said the proposal was still in an embryonic stage and had to be discussed with higher-ups. “After discussing with the higher officials, we will send the proposal to the government for approval,” they said.
The officials also made it clear that the main objective of the proposal was to crack down on malpractices as additional answer sheets are prominently used for doctoring marks during evaluation.
“There are students who misuse additional sheets. They take extra sheets in the exam hall but don’t write in them. But later during evaluation, these sheets will be filled up in collusion with evaluators,” said an official.
The official also said that there was another category of students who made false claims before their parents about the number of additional sheets they had used while writing the exam. “When confronted by their parents over the poor marks they have obtained, these students claim that the additional sheets they had used in the exam had gone missing,” he explained.
The department is considering doing away with additional sheets to leave no room for all these malpractices. The ‘no additional sheet’ system exists in Andhra Pradesh and a team from the state PUE department recently visited the neighbouring state to study the system.
“Before implementing the system, the Andhra Pradesh government had conducted a three-year study among the students who had scored 100% in the final exams. The study revealed that the students who excelled in examinations used a maximum of 24 pages in every subject,” said another official who was in the team that visited Andhra Pradesh.
Currently, each main answer-script provided in the state has 14 pages with 26 lines in each page. “If we bring in the ‘no additional sheet’ system then we will have to increase the number of pages in the main booklet itself. At this stage, it is being felt that the main booklet should have 26 to 30 pages,” said an official with the examination wing.
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