Chennai: The new question paper pattern for plus-1 board exam suggested by the expert committee will face the ‘field test’ before being finalised for the public exam.
The state government has converted the plus-1 exam as board exam from coming the academic year (2017-18) to prompt students to understand plus one subjects better and not to skip it.
As per the new exam pattern announced by the government, the plus one exam will be conducted for 600 marks and each subject will have a maximum of 100 marks. Of the 100 marks, 90 marks awarded for the written exam and 10 marks for the internal evaluation. For the subjects which have practical exams, the written exam marks would be 70 and practical marks would be 20 besides the internal marks.
A committee headed by former director of government examinations K. Devarajan was formed by State Council for Educational Research and Training (SCERT) to draft new question paper pattern for plus one board exam.
“The committee has submitted the new question paper pattern. We are planning to test the new pattern with model question paper among plus 1 students before finalising it,” said G. Arivoli, director, SCERT.
After reducing the subject marks from 200 to 100, the school education department also reduced the exam duration from three hours to two and half hours. “We will check whether the students are able to finish the question paper in two and half hours. If they face any difficulties while writing the exam, we will change the pattern accordingly,” he said.
The test would be an open book exam and students from select schools will write it. It is learnt that the new pattern has three types of questions namely knowledge based, understanding type and application-oriented questions.
According to sources, it will be very difficult for students to secure 100 per cent marks in board exams. “The question paper pattern would be as such that it would be easier up to 50 marks and the students need to be good at the subjects to score more than 50 marks,” a source added.
