Anxious CBSE students who wrote the difficult and lengthy Class 12 Mathematics examination are now hoping that the board will show some mercy while valuing their answer sheets.
Many youngsters had left the exam halls in tears after they could not crack what teachers had termed one of the toughest Maths question papers in recent times. The difficulty level had gone up considerably when compared to the previous years.
A teacher of Mathematics in a city school pointed out that the questions were above average level. They said that at least five to six questions were really tough. Even the high-performing students were not satisfied with the questions, she said. Terming the paper as lengthy and comprising of twisted questions, faculty members said that the application-based questions made the exam difficult for many students. An average 30 per cent difficulty level is expected but this time it was much higher, they said.
Anxious parents said the higher studies of their children would be affected because of this. The performance in Maths was crucial, especially in competitive examinations for professional courses, they said.
Indira Rajan, general secretary, Kerala CBSE School Management Association, said the organisation would forward a report to the board based on the feedback from expert Maths teachers for follow-up action. Class 12 exam results were crucial as it remained the key in the selection of students for various professional courses and other related programmes, she said.
The legacy of S. Anantha Narayanan, who demitted office as director of defence laboratory NPOL last month, is a host of institutional structures brought about under his leadership to foster innovation, strengthen partnership with the end-user (Navy) and to hand-hold local public sector firms into defence production.
If the Creativity and Innovation Cell set up at NPOL encouraged out-of-the-box thinking and harnessing world-class technology, the Centre for Global Business and Collaboration founded to map the lab’s capability in the geopolitical context catapulted NPOL into the global market where it began exporting sonar variants through Indian industry partners. The export variant of the lab’s most successful hull mounted sonar array (HUMSA) is now fitted on offshore patrol vessels of Myanmar.
The Naval Training Support Council launched two years ago was instrumental in bringing greater synergy between naval personnel and the lab’s scientists. The Technology Cell, in the meantime, facilitated popularisation of DRDO technology spin-offs in the civil sector in Kerala. It was during Mr. Narayanan’s tenure that PSUs like Keltron and HMT Machine Tools were encouraged and supported by the lab to manufacture sub systems and components of sonar systems and underwater communication equipment designed and developed by it.
