Education department plans question banks for state boards

RANCHI: Matriculation and intermediate students across the Ranchi district will be given the chance to get access to curated question banks and sample papers to help them gear up for the various board examinations this year.
With a goal to consolidate the vast amount of study material available online for students, Ranchi District Education Officer (DEO) Rajnikant Verma on Saturday said he has formed several teams of teachers who will put together and assemble these sample question banks for students in all subjects at both matriculation and intermediate level.

The study materials are expected to be ready by the last week of November. While talking to TOI, Verma said, "The goal is to form a complete data base of questions that will help the students with the preparation for the board exams. There is a huge database of content available online and the effort is to make use of all these available useful content in the form of a booklet format."

Ranchi's results in the 2017 examination which was conducted by the Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) board have not been as impressive as was expected. While the pass percentage in matriculation was 72.93%, the pass percentage in science and commerce streams were 52.17% and 75% respectively. The overall pass percentage in matriculation in the state saw a 13-year low with only 59.48% of the appearing students making the cut out the many hundreds who appeared for the examination.

"Around three to four teachers have been assigned to help conduct the research on relevant content for the sample papers for each subject at matriculation and intermediate level," Verma said.

Once the content is ready, it will be distributed among all the students who are going to appear their matriculation and intermediate examinations across the district. The main goal of this project is to improve and help the students attain a pass percentage which will uplift the district. This will also help ensure them of performing better as they will be more prepared this time with the help of these study material," he added.