Continued from : The Exams That Were
Another new issue and in a way a new trouble was the OMR sheet for MCQ. Three-fourths of the sheet were occupied by unnecessary information like Name of Medical College (though everyone belongs to the same University), exam session and subject (imagine 1st Prof examinees appearing Medicine or Final Prof students appearing Community Medicine!). The list of medical colleges was an entire mess. The names are conventionally always written in a sequence, arbitrarily chosen for the the Admission Test, and we blindly know that SSMC is in no. 2 just after DMC, but it was not there! We tried to look in alphabetical order but there was no order! Then we tried to visually locate the name "Sir Salimullah Medical College", and there were students who had to seek the invigilators' help — and they also ran through the same sequence of confusion.
Instructions were unclear as to how students with three-digit numbers should fill up the four or five circles for roll and registration numbers, and whether the MCQ question must be returned or retained with the students. All of these problems were only second order, the more significant problem was the reduction of the time for the written paper due to the extra time given to fill in the MCQ circles. At the end of the day, at least one of our students was reported to have her MCQ sheet rejected by the OMR machine because of a roll number error.
Continued in : The Dash at Eye & ENT
Another new issue and in a way a new trouble was the OMR sheet for MCQ. Three-fourths of the sheet were occupied by unnecessary information like Name of Medical College (though everyone belongs to the same University), exam session and subject (imagine 1st Prof examinees appearing Medicine or Final Prof students appearing Community Medicine!). The list of medical colleges was an entire mess. The names are conventionally always written in a sequence, arbitrarily chosen for the the Admission Test, and we blindly know that SSMC is in no. 2 just after DMC, but it was not there! We tried to look in alphabetical order but there was no order! Then we tried to visually locate the name "Sir Salimullah Medical College", and there were students who had to seek the invigilators' help — and they also ran through the same sequence of confusion.
Instructions were unclear as to how students with three-digit numbers should fill up the four or five circles for roll and registration numbers, and whether the MCQ question must be returned or retained with the students. All of these problems were only second order, the more significant problem was the reduction of the time for the written paper due to the extra time given to fill in the MCQ circles. At the end of the day, at least one of our students was reported to have her MCQ sheet rejected by the OMR machine because of a roll number error.
Continued in : The Dash at Eye & ENT
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