Students to get full marks as bonus for out of course questions

PRAYAGRAJ: UP Board’s high school and intermediate examinees of 2022 can look forward to bagging extra marks as a bonus, courtesy errors or questions asked in the exams from the 30 percent syllabus curtailed this time owing to the pandemic.

“Taking note of the slip-ups, UP Board has instructed chief head examiners and examiners busy evaluating answer-sheets of UP Board’s high school and intermediate examinations-2022 to award equal marks to all the examinees for all such questions asked from outside the curriculum in around a dozen subjects of class 12 and seven core subjects of class 10,” said UP Board officials in the know about the development.

The evaluation of more than 2.25 crore answer-sheets of 47,75,749 students, which started at 271 evaluation centres spread across the state on April 23, will conclude on May 5. A detailed six-page “special instructions” have been sent to the deputy head examiners and examiners by UP Board secretary Divyakant Shukla detailing subject-wise instructions that they need to adhere to while evaluating the answer-sheets.

The instructions clearly say that in paper code 301DL of intermediate Hindi, a multiplechoice question of 1 mark had three correct options instead of just one.

Likewise, in the paper code 302DP of General Hindi of intermediate, in the question carrying weightage of 5 marks, the story of “Dhruvtara” was printed in place of “Dhruvyatra”.

For this, all the students will get the marks. In the code number 302DR of the same question paper, questions of 5 marks were from outside the approved course and therefore all students who got this question paper would be awarded its marks.

No different is the case of paper code 329FP of intermediate mathematics in which questions of 10 marks were asked from out of syllabus.

The most interesting case is of intermediate history paper. In this, students who got paper code 321EP will get 44 marks out of 100 as bonus. That is, if a candidate has left the entire answersheet blank, even then they will pass.