West Bengal HS exam in separate answer scripts, council reverts decision

Section B comprising a separate question paper with multiple choice and objective type questions will have to be answered in the question paper itself, as was the earlier practice, and tagged on to the main answer script, Das said. The notification said, the decision was taken following a directive from the education department.

The council had said in July that from 2020, there would be a new Question-cum-Answer Booklet (QCAB) system, on which answers for all the questions would have to be written in the space provided below. State Education minister Partha Chatterjee said, “The council president had not taken the consent of the ministry before arriving at the decision to introduce the QCAB system, which had created confusion.

“The exams will be held as per the old format,” the minister said. The Council’s new notification was addressed to Head masters of Higher Secondary educational institutions and students.

The previous notification which was posted on the Council’s website since July now stands cancelled with immediate effect, Das said. Till this year, answers to essay type questions had to be written in separate answer sheets while answers to multiple choice and objective-type questions had to be penned on the question paper itself and clubbed with the main answer sheet.