Daily Pioneer:Wednesday, January 04, 2012.
CBSE has failed to comply with the orders of Chief Information Commissioner and directives of Supreme Court to disclose answer-keys of All India Engineering Entrance Examinations (AIEEE) and make these declarations public.
Based on the RTI query of an applicant, CBSE came out with AIEEE 2010 and 2011 answer-keys but without questions. It thus rendered the answer keys useless. Further, the disclosures came after 20 months of the examinations, prompting the coaching institutes to do brisk business.
RTI applicant Rajeev Kumar pointed out that the enactment of RTI Act 2005 coupled with many CIC orders call for the disclosure of answer-keys and question papers to maintain transparency in the conduct of examination.
Most of the examination bodies, including IIT-JEE, State boards, engineering/medical examination bodies as a result disclose publicly the answer-keys of multiple choice questions after the examinations. With such disclosures, a student can assess the correct score. Besides, such disclosures help in detecting errors, which are then corrected before evaluation of the scripts.
Response to the RTI application filed by Kumar revealed that the CBSE which conducts the AIEEE, the largest examination of multiple-choice question type in the country, neither discloses the answer-keys voluntarily nor under RTI requests.
In fact, on a Chief Information Commissioner order for disclosure of the answer keys of AIEEE 2010, CBSE took the pretext of disclosing the answer-keys alone (without accompanying the question papers), and only privately to the RTI applicant after a delay of 20 months.
While the Chief Information Commissioner had passed orders in this regard on September 30 last year, the Supreme Court had in August last year directed “all the examining bodies to permit examinees to have inspection of their answer books”.
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