Summary:
After several Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) students complained of a 'tricky' question in the Class 12 Maths paper, evaluators received a circular from the board asking them to grant marks for a 'confusing' question. It may be mentioned here that students get admissions in colleges based on the marks they score in Class 12 marks. In a corrigendum released on March 30, the CBSE told the evaluators to follow a different marking structure for question number 29 (set 1 and 2), question 27 (set 3). Shailendra Salvi, chairman, General Education Institute, a trust which runs three CBSE schools in Mumbai fixed the accountability on the paper setter. The circular states that a six-mark question from the linear programming chapter could be comprehended and solved in two ways..