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`Errors' in EAMCET question papers

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Exam below expected level, say bright students

STAYING COOL IS THE MANTRA: Students slaking their thirst before entering JNTU exam hall in Hyderabad for writing EAMCET on Friday. — PHOTO: Satish H.

HYDERABAD: "A few confusing questions and a paper below the expected level," was how the students described the Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test (EAMCET) conducted on Friday.

Lecturers of corporate colleges who did a thorough study of the papers said some questions of ambiguous nature were given in the Chemistry and Mathematics papers of the Engineering stream. Chadrasekhar, lecturer of Chemistry in Sri Chaitanya College, said that a question in the Chemistry paper on electricity and conductors had two answers to choose from applying different methods.

"In the Mathematics paper, the framing of two questions was wrong as the student had the choice of applying two different methods to arrive at two different answers," according to Shanker Rao, Mathematics lecturer in Sri Chaitanya College. These questions appeared from Trigonometry and Vectors chapters.

Similarly, in Zoology paper under Medicine stream, one mistake was found. "One of the questions carried the word Systematic instead of Symptomatic," said Satyanarayana, Zoology lecturer at Narayana Junior College, Kothapet.

According to teachers, good students found the paper very easy. "It should have been a bit tougher so as to separate good students from the better ones," remarked a lecturer.

EAMCET-2007 Convenor E. Saibaba Reddy told The Hindu that the test was conducted smoothly all over the State barring a few stray incidents of latecomers being denied entry into the examination hall. The attendance in Engineering was 97 per cent while it was 96 per cent in the Medical stream.

He said the subject experts would examine the paper on Sunday and the key released either on Sunday evening or Monday morning.

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