EAMCET 2011 - A Challenge to Students

Students who are going to write Eamcet 2011 might face one of the toughest challenges - of answering erroneous questions. With the decision of higher education department to prepare Eamcet questions based solely on textbooks and question banks prepared by Telugu Academy, the students are in for quite a confusing situation this eamcet, as experts point out that several mistakes have crept into the academy’s prescribed books.

It is for the first time that the Eamcet authorities are considering the use of Telugu Academy’s question bank for selecting questions for Eamcet. Earlier the question bank for Eamcet was made by officials from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU).

According to subject experts of Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Zoology and Botany textbooks, the mistakes in textbooks range from simple spelling errors to change in values and terms. While mistakes are common in all subjects it is in Chemistry and Zoology that the highest number of mistakes were found, experts said.

Experts said that in some of the questions suggested by Telugu Academy, even concepts and theories were not applied correctly. “Till recently questions for Eamcet were prepared by JNTU and now the state government is planning to use substandard questions from the Telugu Academy’s question banks for the preparation of questions for Eamcet. This would force the students to learn wrong answers just to clear Eamcet,” said ESRK Prasad, a former subject expert of Telugu Academy and an Intermediate teacher with 35 years of experience.

Some of the junior college lecturers from the city have been repeatedly petitioning officials of higher education department and even Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) since the past several months asking them not to use material prepared by the academy. Ironically, AP State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE) and Eamcet authorities decided to use a new question bank to reduce errors in Eamcet.

Meanwhile, officials from JNTU, who have been conducting Eamcet since the past one decade, said that the number of errors in Eamcet have been reducing since the past few years and they will maintain the standard even in the coming examinations. According to them, while in Eamcet 2009, 11 questions had to be cancelled for being wrong, in Eamcet 2010 only one had to be cancelled.