Lecturers claim flaws in PU answer key, boycott valuation

The second day of valuation of II PUC answer scripts in Mysuru, Bengaluru and Dharwad was ridden with glitches as a section of the evaluators sat on protest,complaining that the answer keys given to the English paper had several flaws and even the question paper had several mistakes.

The lecturers had demanded up to 13 grace marks.While they attended the valuation work in the morning, they boycotted it in the afternoon.

Teachers’ refusal
On conditions of anonymity, a lecturer said, “Lecturers have refused to go ahead with the valuation until the lacunae were set right. Several questions in the paper were confusing this time.”

This comes on the close heels of lecturers pointing out similar mistakes in Mathematics paper too. Two questions were said to be ambiguous, making it tricky for students to even attempt them.

Scheme of valuation
Meanwhile, Director of Department of Pre University Education (DPUE) Sushama Godbole said the scheme of valuation was as per the syllabus and there was no ambiguity.

However, a revised version of answer keys would be given to lecturers on Tuesday to resume the valuation. Further, Godbole said until now none of the lecturers had given an official complaint regarding the problem. Valuation would resume on Tuesday and disciplinary action would be initiated against those boycotted the valuation.