The General Education department has barred 12 higher secondary Chemistry teachers from preparing question papers and answer schemes for five years.
The order comes in the wake of the department finding that the answer scheme for the Plus Two Chemistry question paper of the 2022 annual examinations prepared during the scheme finalisation held in Ernakulam could lead to students getting more marks than they deserved. However, the department order does not mention any action against the teacher who is said to have prepared the question paper and its answer scheme that reportedly contained anomalies.
A controversy had surrounded the valuation of the Chemistry answer scripts after teachers boycotted the valuation camps and the department warned of disciplinary action against them. The Chemistry teachers had alleged that the question paper was tough and confusing. For instance, a question did not provide any correct options as answers. Following this, an answer scheme was prepared by 12 teachers during the scheme finalisation but when the teachers reached valuation camps for answer script valuation, a different answer scheme was waiting for them. The teachers then boycotted valuation seeking that the answer scheme prepared during scheme finalised be used for valuation.
