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Class X students find first paper easy

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, MARCH 3. It may have been their first experience with the much-dreaded Board examination, but for most students appearing for their first Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) conducted Class X examination in Social Science, it seemed a smooth sail.

Barring a small hitch regarding a question in Set III, a majority of students described the paper as an easy one, with many calling it a scoring paper. However, some teachers pointed out that the 14th question in Set III asking students to explain the difference between Kathak and Kathakali dance forms was not mentioned in the NCERT textbook.

"The four-mark question left the students puzzled as they did not know what to write as the NCERT text books did not explain it elaborately,'' said Geetashree, the Social Science teacher at Apeejay School in Sheikh Sarai. But a majority of students did not have any problems. "It was a very easy question paper. And there were no problems with any of the questions,'' said Shilpi Malhotra, a student of St. Anthony's School.

However, one student was caught cheating in a Gita Colony School on Thursday. Accepting that a number of cheating cases had been reported, the CBSE Controller of Examinations, Pavnesh Kumar, said the total number was yet to be compiled. Asked about the confusion regarding the Social Science paper, Mr. Kumar said the Board had not received any complaint about any question being out of course.

Also facing a new challenge were the Class X students at the JPM Senior Secondary School for the Blind on Lal Bahadur Shastri Marg. Writing an exam with the help of a writer for the first time, it was a new experience for both the candidates and the students from Mater Dei who have volunteered to help them.

"It was a good experience and revealing one. I faced some difficulty as the answers had to be written in Hindi, but otherwise there was no problem. Also, I did not know that we would be paid Rs.100 for the job, so I am pretty thrilled to have got paid for doing social work,'' said Sneha Paul, a Class IX student who had written the exam for Hare Krishna.

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