Karnataka: Phone in for SSLC students elicits more queries on syllabus than subject

UDUPI: The phone-in programme organised by the office of deputy director, department of public instruction, Udupi on Friday for SSLC students elicited good response. The panel of subject experts that included N H Nagur, deputy director of the department received more than 65 questions in the two-hour programme that started at 5pm. This is the first in the series of weekly phone-in that the department will conduct up to April 16.
Subject for the day was mathematics.The department has organised the phone-in to help the students appearing for SSLC examinations clarify their doubts from the best of subject experts already identified. Interestingly, students and parents from even Thirthahalli in Shivamogga district made use of this initiative of the department. Most of the questions were asked by students from Government Pre-University College, Shankarnarayana.
The question that students were most interested to know was the portion pared from the syllabus. Other question was regarding the question paper pattern. Students also posed queries regarding quadratic equations, questions one could expect in applied trigonometry, arithmetic progression, circles and Thale’s theorem. The exercise was useful in getting the students to clarify their doubts on what to expect for the examinations, Nagur said.
R Narayan Shenoy, one of the subject experts said most of the questions were on the extent of syllabus that the students would have to prepare for the upcoming SSLC examinations. The students also asked Nagur about when the examinations will be held notwithstanding a tentative schedule that the minister S Suresh Kumar has already announced. There were also queries about the resumption of full-fledged offline classes, Nagur noted.