The Education Ministry has decided to prepare school
term test papers themselves from next term. The decision was taken
following serious errors in the last term test papers prepared by the
Provincial Education Departments islandwide. However, Provincial
Education Departments will continue the printing and distributing of
papers.
Education Minister Susil Premjayantha said that there
wouldn’t be any error in question paper if the papers were prepared by
the Provincial Education Departments or Education Ministry. However,
Premjayantha claimed some political parties are trying to take political
mileage by criticising the government on the issue. This is a shame.
A large number of factual and spelling mistakes in the
mid term papers given to school children in several provinces, have
placed students in a quandary. A vulgar word had been printed in some
papers. The mistakes in meaning of words in most question papers set by
the Provincial Council Education Departments of the North Central and
Central Provinces, have been noticed by students. The questions have
been wrongly phrased making it difficult for students to understand,
while in one instance, students were asked to answer (4) questions but
only three (3) had been given in the paper. In the Southern Province,
the answer sheet too had been provided with the English Question papers.
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