TET: Only 6 questions were wrong, says panel

The bulk of the complaints were received from candidates who had written the paper in Urdu medium.

(Source: Express Archive)

The Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) had drew criticism from candidates who attempted it in December last year over ‘wrong’ questions in the paper. While the education department received over 600 complaints, Maharashtra State Council of Examination has found that only six questions were wrong.

The bulk of the complaints were received from candidates who had written the paper in Urdu medium. Many student organisations, too, had alleged partiality by the exam board. The students were given handwritten question papers, which they alleged had several mistakes and was ‘illegible’. However, an expert committee of the exam council that was constituted to probe the matter found only 6 faults.

There are two examinations in TET — one for teachers from Classes I-V and the other for teacher aspirants from Classes VI-VIII and a minimum of 60 per cent is required to qualify. Without qualification, the candidate cannot be employed as a teacher in any primary school, as per the Right To Education Act 2009.The test is based on respective curriculum for lower and upper primary and was started in 2013 in Maharashtra in three mediums, Marathi, English and Urdu.

“In all, there were 6 questions that were found wrong. This is much less a figure than 20, which was found last time. The first two questions numbered 118 and 119 were wrong in all mediums in paper 1. In paper 2, there were two wrong questions in Marathi (43) and Social Science (127). In English, question number 43 was wrong while in Urdu question numbers 13 and 123 were wrong. While some questions were wrong, some were not right due to printing mistakes. All these questions have been cancelled,”said VB Paimal, commissioner of MSCE. “The results will most probably be out by March-end,” Paimal added.

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