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Students find SSC science paper too HOT(S) to handle

Several of the 3 lakh-plus students appearing for the SSC exam were taken aback when a gruelling Science and Technology paper, designed on the new syllabus pattern, was presented to them.

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Several of the three lakh-plus students appearing for the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination on Monday were taken aback when a gruelling Science and Technology paper, designed on the new syllabus pattern, was presented to them.

After this ‘extremely difficult’ paper, several students are now understandably apprehensive about their upcoming Mathematics papers, designed on similar lines.

For the first time this year, the state board has introduced new elements in the curricula, such as High Order Thinking Skills (HOTS).  The questions in this section are apparently demanding enough to make the most intelligent students lose sleep.

Moreover, students had no precedents to fall back upon, since they were the first batch dealing with the new syllabus.

On Monday, students emerged from the exam halls seemingly dejected and disheartened. For most of them, section B, which consisted of biology and organic chemistry, was tough, while section A, comprising physics and compound chemistry, was relatively simpler.

Abhishek Nagwekar, a student from Andheri, said he was not confident of doing well in section B.

“The paper was very tough. The numerical problem was hard. I am worried whether I will even pass this paper. Section B was extremely hard. The pattern was also different from the ones we had been taught in school and coaching classes,” he said.

Surprisingly, students said they found the objective questions the hardest. Neha Jain from Thane said, “I am going to lose a lot of marks in the objective questions. This year they included questions such as ‘Odd man out’ and ‘Find the correlations’ in sections A and B. Generally these are restricted to biology and not compound physics. The small questions were tough.”

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