Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Nov 10: “From this academic year, we will be affecting certain changes in the SSLC question paper. Written answers will be given more prominence, with the purpose of improving the writing skills of the students,” said M N Baig, director of Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board, said.

He was speaking after inaugurating the workshop on ‘SSLC Examination Question Paper – 2010’, held on Monday November 9, at the Milagres High School auditorium, under the aegis of the Dakshina Kannada zilla panchayat, department of public instruction and the Dakshina Kannada District Association of Heads of High Schools and PU Colleges.

The design and master blue print of the model question paper have been sent to all the schools. Workshops like this have already been conducted in some of the districts, where the model question papers have been analyzed in detail. Such workshops are aimed at creating awareness about the question papers among the teachers and to imbibe skills of preparing the question papers among them, he explained.

Deputy director of the district department of public instruction, C Chame Gowda, president of the said Association and principal of Milagres PU College, Fr Lawrence D’Souza, resource persons, A P Gundappa and Aravind Katti, were present at the dais.

SSLC Examination district nodal officer, Ramachandra Gowda, welcomed. Block education officer, Jayashekhar Moses, proposed vote of thanks. 86 teachers of the district participated in the workshop.