Lahore:March 13:The recent paper of Chemistry (Class-X) in the ongoing Matriculation Annual Examination 2014 of the Lahore Board was replete with grammatical mistakes and typing errors, exposing the absence of any mechanism to check such issues.
The essay/subjective type paper of Chemistry (New Scheme, Group Second), a copy available with The News, exposes the little attention the paper setter/s paid in designing the said paper. For example, one of the questions reads: “How detergents pollute water?” instead of “How do detergents pollute water?”
Some other examples of such questions are: “Why pesticides are used?”; “How Acid rain increases the Acidity of soil?”, “Where Ozone is found?” and “How sodium carbonate is prepared by Solvay Process?” etc. Similarly there are mistakes in the use of article “the”.
Veteran educationist Zafar Mehdi Zafar while talking to The News expressed strong concern over the grammatical mistakes and the typing errors in the question paper, saying quality aspect should not be neglected while setting a question paper.
The essay/subjective type paper of Chemistry (New Scheme, Group Second), a copy available with The News, exposes the little attention the paper setter/s paid in designing the said paper. For example, one of the questions reads: “How detergents pollute water?” instead of “How do detergents pollute water?”
Some other examples of such questions are: “Why pesticides are used?”; “How Acid rain increases the Acidity of soil?”, “Where Ozone is found?” and “How sodium carbonate is prepared by Solvay Process?” etc. Similarly there are mistakes in the use of article “the”.
Veteran educationist Zafar Mehdi Zafar while talking to The News expressed strong concern over the grammatical mistakes and the typing errors in the question paper, saying quality aspect should not be neglected while setting a question paper.
According to Mehdi, who has been attached with the teaching profession for around four decades now, one of the questions was completely wrong in the paper. The question reads: “Name the main product obtained when acidified KMnO4 react with ethane.” He claims it should be actually “ethene” and not ethane” in the said question.
When contacted, Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education (BISE) Lahore Chairman Dr Muhammad Nasrullah Virk said he would look into the issue and take action against those responsible.The news.
When contacted, Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education (BISE) Lahore Chairman Dr Muhammad Nasrullah Virk said he would look into the issue and take action against those responsible.The news.
