Gujarat: Class X students don't know shape of triangle, but get 90% in Math objectives

by Guest Fri Jul 01, 2016 12:49 pm

They could not tell a triangle from a circle. One of them said a trikon (triangle) has four sides and another student could not point out set two integers on a line bar, while many of them failed to solve two-digit multiplication and subtraction. Some appeared honest and wrote avadtu nathi (do not know) on their answer sheets.
All these 500 Class X students, who gave the these answers to basic questions during a hearing session Tuesday on suspected cases of copying at the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) headquarters here, had scored more than 80 per cent — a few even scoring 90-95 per cent — in the objective section (50 per cent of the total marks) of their mathematics paper in the board exams, results of which were announced on May 24. Also, all these students scored zero in the subjective section.

At the hearing, according to officials, the students revealed a teacher used to stand right below the CCTV camera of the examination hall and tutored them answers. Some of them said they used to hear “voices from outside the window” of the classroom.

http://indianexpress.com/article/education/in-gujarat-many-in-class-x-dont-know-shape-of-triangle-but-got-90-in-maths-objectives-2884686/

by swapna Fri Jul 01, 2016 10:03 pm

Rashmun wrote:They could not tell a triangle from a circle. One of them said a trikon (triangle) has four sides and another student could not point out set two integers on a line bar, while many of them failed to solve two-digit multiplication and subtraction. Some appeared honest and wrote avadtu nathi (do not know) on their answer sheets.
All these 500 Class X students, who gave the these answers to basic questions during a hearing session Tuesday on suspected cases of copying at the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) headquarters here, had scored more than 80 per cent — a few even scoring 90-95 per cent — in the objective section (50 per cent of the total marks) of their mathematics paper in the board exams, results of which were announced on May 24. Also, all these students scored zero in the subjective section.

At the hearing, according to officials, the students revealed a teacher used to stand right below the CCTV camera of the examination hall and tutored them answers. Some of them said they used to hear “voices from outside the window” of the classroom.

http://indianexpress.com/article/education/in-gujarat-many-in-class-x-dont-know-shape-of-triangle-but-got-90-in-maths-objectives-2884686/

perhaps they can't count the sides of a triangle, but maybe they can solve differential equations and costrained optimization problems. they may be our future engineers.

Gujarat: Class X students don't know shape of triangle, but get 90% in Math objectives

Gujarat: Class X students don't know shape of triangle, but get 90% in Math objectives

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