PUNE: A day after the date of the Common Entrance Test (CET) for admission to the First Year of Junior College (FYJC) was announced, the market is already filling up with books that promise to prepare the students for the objective-type examination.
However, teachers have urged students to prepare by marking the chapters identified by the board.
“The Maharashtra State Council of Educational Research and Training (MSCERT) has also planned to come out with question banks for each of the four subjects (English, Maths, Science and Social Studies) so that students, who otherwise are trained to write descriptive answers, will have an idea about the objective type questions,” Vikas Garad, deputy director of MSCERT, said.
Bhagwan Pandekar, a mathematics teacher at Laxmanrao Apte Prashala, said with only one month remaining for the examination, it will be best to revise from the textbooks and solve the questions in the exercises there.
“All the questions will surely be based on the chapters specified by the state board. The students actually read those chapters well. Do not think that all questions will be easy. Some might require a good amount of calculation and it will not be wise for the students to only rely on private books,” Pandekar said.
Madhuri Chittewan, principal of Dr Kalmadi Shamarao Junior College, said, “ Since the student has already based his or her entire preparation for the board examination on the textbook, they are already familiar with them. Secondly, the omitted parts are clearly known to the students as they must have been told so at the beginning of the term so it is easier to study the remaining part as marked by the state board for the CET. Lastly, the answers in the textbook are considered final and correct.”
