Students claim mistake in exam paper,Jamia says will look into it

School Principal Tariq Habib said he will look into the matter.

One of the students said,“Question No: 21 had two values for power and aperture of a given lens. The value of aperture of a lens was given as ‘15 am’. The same value for other lenses was given in the unit of ‘cm’ (centimetre).The value,am,does not mean anything in the given equation. (The aperture has a different unit of measurement).”

Another question asked the students to “deduce an expression for the torque acting on an electric dipole placed in a uniform magnetic field.” Students said the term ‘magnetic’ should have been replaced by ‘electric’ for the question “to make sense”. But in the absence of their teacher,they could not make these changes themselves as it was a Board exam.

Students said that “if a teacher had come around and told us to correct this mistake we would not have lost marks.”

“We tried to tell our invigilators about the mistakes in the paper but they said they were from other streams and could not help us,” a student said.

Many students did not attempt the questions with such confusions while some “assumed” values and attempted the questions.

In a certain question where the values were provided and had to be verified,students alleged that none of the values corresponded to the given data. A student said,“We are at the risk of losing at least 15 marks. This is an important exam in our lives and we cannot afford to take it lightly.”

Students protested outside the Proctor’s office from 9 am on Wednesday and the Proctor finally accepted their complaint in the afternoon.

The students have submitted a list of all questions with mistakes to the school principal and the Proctor of the Jamia Milia University demanding that they be given full marks for those queries. The school follows the syllabus prescribed by the Jamia University Board,which is autonomous,but subscribes to NCERT textbooks.