URGENT CONCERN REGARDING THE RESULT OF QUALIFIER PROCESS- I
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Jitendra Sharma
Dec 4, 2020, 10:24:21 AM12/4/20
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Dear Team,
This is the issue to raise that if IITM agrees to the fact there are all level of student writing any exam and hence this exam too (as mentioned in the email regarding post qualifier FAQs dated Nov 29) then why it is being ignored that a question paper has to be set in the same way too such that it is feasible to all.
If we take into consideration, the question paper of Statistics, particularly in shift 2nd, we find that most of the questions were from Week 4 content which was toughest amongst all. Isn't it the irrational distribution of questions? Having such a set of questions implies that one who is at the top level of intelligence will only get the qualifier pass whereas the students which are good at Week1, 2 and 3 accounting 75% of the course will be eliminated just on the ground that they are weak at Week 4 content which accounts only 25% of the total four week course.
For example, I had obtained an average of 88% in the graded assignments in Statistics implying that I am good enough regarding the contents from Week 1,2 and 3. However such an excellent score drops down to just 30% when it comes to qualifiers just because of the reason that most of the questions in the qualifier exam were from Week 4. If there had been an even distribution of questions from all four week content, my score would have definitely been good enough to cross the qualifying criteria.
Secondly, as mentioned earlier, if the qualifier content was to be treated as only the BASE, then a student can never expect a question paper containing questions which are deep peculiar to a subject. If we have a look at the question paper of Statistics, it merely contains CONCEPTS based questions. It should had to contain a fair fraction of conceptual questions which could at least make one pass in the qualifier examination. If the design of the question paper had been in accordance with that of Mock tests, the rationality in the DISTRIBUTION IN WEEK WISE CONTENT AND DEPTH would definitely had been maintained.
Conclusively, it is not fare to judge a candidate as FAILED just on the performance in a paper set almost completely ON JUST ONE FOURTH AND THE TOUGHEST part of the course in spite of the fact that the student had been excellent at rest three weeks, the fraction of which, was fairly ignored in the qualifier question paper.
The team is supposed to do some needful in the favour of students.
Jitendra Sharma
This is the issue to raise that if IITM agrees to the fact there are all level of student writing any exam and hence this exam too (as mentioned in the email regarding post qualifier FAQs dated Nov 29) then why it is being ignored that a question paper has to be set in the same way too such that it is feasible to all.
If we take into consideration, the question paper of Statistics, particularly in shift 2nd, we find that most of the questions were from Week 4 content which was toughest amongst all. Isn't it the irrational distribution of questions? Having such a set of questions implies that one who is at the top level of intelligence will only get the qualifier pass whereas the students which are good at Week1, 2 and 3 accounting 75% of the course will be eliminated just on the ground that they are weak at Week 4 content which accounts only 25% of the total four week course.
For example, I had obtained an average of 88% in the graded assignments in Statistics implying that I am good enough regarding the contents from Week 1,2 and 3. However such an excellent score drops down to just 30% when it comes to qualifiers just because of the reason that most of the questions in the qualifier exam were from Week 4. If there had been an even distribution of questions from all four week content, my score would have definitely been good enough to cross the qualifying criteria.
Secondly, as mentioned earlier, if the qualifier content was to be treated as only the BASE, then a student can never expect a question paper containing questions which are deep peculiar to a subject. If we have a look at the question paper of Statistics, it merely contains CONCEPTS based questions. It should had to contain a fair fraction of conceptual questions which could at least make one pass in the qualifier examination. If the design of the question paper had been in accordance with that of Mock tests, the rationality in the DISTRIBUTION IN WEEK WISE CONTENT AND DEPTH would definitely had been maintained.
Conclusively, it is not fare to judge a candidate as FAILED just on the performance in a paper set almost completely ON JUST ONE FOURTH AND THE TOUGHEST part of the course in spite of the fact that the student had been excellent at rest three weeks, the fraction of which, was fairly ignored in the qualifier question paper.
The team is supposed to do some needful in the favour of students.
Jitendra Sharma
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Koyal Patra
Dec 4, 2020, 11:04:35 AM12/4/20
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Pankaj Kumar
Dec 4, 2020, 11:55:28 AM12/4/20
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I strongly agree. Candidates who appeared for this exam come from different academic backgrounds. I am from arts background and presently working as a BA and I want to upskill myself in coding to transition into data analytics/science domain. The sole purpose of me appearing for this exam is to upskill myself and I did fine in subjects other than maths. I studied really hard to grasp maths concepts and it is really difficult as I never studies maths after class 10. Exam paper should have been prepared in such a way that it is feasible for all students especially those who are coming from non math background.
Or IITM should revise eligibility criteria for this course to include class 12 math as must.
My thoughts only.
Pankaj Kumar
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