Hyderabad: Errors dogged Eamcet yet again. Much like the previous years, errors crept in Eamcet-2010. A total of three errors were found in the question papers after initial analysis by experts.
According to Eamcet experts, Question No. 99 of Physics (Set A) was found to have two answers, including the second and third option. Question No. 149 of the same set had a printing error where an equation was wrongly printed that could mislead the students. In Maths paper, the only question on ‘match the following’ was found to be wrong as it yielded no answer. The medical question paper also had a few printing errors, experts said.
“Students could definitely be misled by certain questions and they could have ended up spending more time on these. But compared to the previous year, the number of errors has come down,” an Eamcet expert said.
Experts said that while in the previous year, Eamcet committee had to delete 11 questions by awarding marks to all of them, this year students might have to be awarded at least two marks for attempting the questions.
However, several students who appeared for the exam in the city said that the MPC paper was easy with most of the expected question appearing. “The Mathematics paper was a bit lengthy and required more time to be spent on certain questions. Physics and Chemistry papers were easy,” a student said. BPC paper for medicine aspirants were found to be moderately tough with certain unexpected questions popping up in each of the three sections (Maths, Biology and Chemistry). Experts said that the top ranks would be for students who would score between 157 to 160 marks in MPC and 155 to 159 marks in BPC.
Meanwhile, much like the previous year again, several students were not allowed into the examination hall for arriving late at the exam centres. “I had come one minute late and was not allowed inside,” said Ahmed Ali, a student from the city said. Around 20 students in the city missed the examinations, officials said. In engineering stream 3,16,115 students wrote the examination and in BPC stream 49,698. The attendance percentage for engineering stream was 96.1 and in medical stream, 91.05.