Class 12: Grace mark for Bio-Zoology

In a big relief for Class 12 students, who had attempted question number 16 in section-A of Part-II in Bio-Zoology subject, the Madras High Court has ordered that all students, who had attempted the question, should be given one mark each as the multiple choices given for the question were all wrong.

By :  migrator
Update: 2017-04-29 20:08 GMT
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Justice Pushpa Sathyanarayana, passing orders on a batch of petitions, asked the director of government examinations to take necessary steps to award one mark each for students, and/or recompute the marks if the evaluation is already done. 

Petitioners had come to the court stating that for the question: In a new born child, the water content is --- of body weight, the answer given in the text book is 85% to 90%, while the choices offered in the question paper were A. 80 to 90, B. 55 to 60, C. 71 to 78 and D. 80 to 96.

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