The state higher secondary council has decided to test the “logical and analytical skills of the students along with their subject knowledge” through multiple-choice questions in the first and third semesters of the new plus-II course.
The council said in a notice on Tuesday that the students, apart from encountering simple questions, will be tested on assertion-reasoning type questions, case-based questions, diagram-based questions, column matching and other types of questions to assess their logical and analytical skills.
A notice signed by the council president says: “Around 50% of questions in these papers will consist of basic and simple questions. Around 30% of questions will be a bit more complex and the remaining 20% will be for the achievers i.e, these questions will be comparatively bit tougher and will test the logical and analytical skills of the students along with their subject knowledge.”
The council has published the syllabi of all subjects, along with the question pattern, of the semester-based plus-II courses which will be rolled out in the 2024-25 academic year.
Of the four semesters, students will be tested entirely on MCQs in the first and third semesters. In the second and fourth semesters, they will be tested on short-answer type and descriptive-type questions.
Each theory paper in the first and third semesters will be of 35 marks for laboratory-based subjects and 40 marks for project-based subjects.
The comparatively tougher questions in the two semesters will include fill-in-the-blanks, rearrangement of sentences and “true-and-false” type questions. “The idea is to prepare the students for the competitive exams. Which is why the council wants to test the logical and analytical skills of the students, along with their subject knowledge,” said council president Chiranjeeb Bhattacharya.