Showing posts with label injso paper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label injso paper. Show all posts

Thursday, March 6, 2014

INJSO paper was porly framed by HBCSE

Several of our students and teachers have problems with the first level examination. To our great dismay we found that the second level examination in junior science (INJSO 2014)  was atrociously bad.  Some obvious errors 

1. on very first page a table of constants are given, several units of quantities (say speed of light) are wrongly given. In Table of chemical elements atomic number is written in place of atomic mass.
2. Data insufficient -  in Que 3 (distances between planets), Que 8 (Ca mass).  There are other. 
3. In Q 3, there is no case iv but it is in the option.
4. Official answers of Que 11, 23, 59 ,56, 60 are wrong.
5. Many questions are out of syllabus. for example Q 16 (photon concept) , 33 (error analysis), 52 (torque). 64 (titration) and many more.
6. Many questions are poorly framed. for example 28, 44, 45, 60,68. Just glance at Q 45-  force curve does not go to zero. Hence none of the answer is correct.

Many questions are based on laughable assertions. Have a look at Q 68 (last question of the paper).

There are many issues with the paper. I urge you to look at the paper and try to solve some of the questions. Therefore we request that this paper which is a shame on Indian science be withdrawn and another exam of INJSO 2014 be  recounducted. There is enough time to  do this since IJSO is to be conducted in December 2014.