Misprint in HSC papers gives full marks to students

 Here is some good news for HSC students. All students, who attempted questions of chemistry, physics-II and fisheries having printing errors, will get full marks.

For physics-II, the misprint was worth almost 10% of the total marks. Debashis Bhowmick, vice-principal of Nuva College and a PhD in physics, said, "Question number five was about finding the shortest wavelength for Paschen and Brackett series in hydrogen atom. However, instead of mentioning the symbol for angstrom, they printed a symbol which made no sense."

Sanjay Charalwar, principal of Mohota Science College, said, "The board has committed an error in printing and the usual practice is to give full marks to students who have either attempted the question or even written the question number in the paper."

There were two such errors in the chemistry subject, with one mistake each in paper-I and II. SS Goyal, lecturer at VB Junior College said, "In the first paper, there were numericals to be solved using Hess' Law but the data was wrong. They had printed H2O gas whereas H2O liquid should have been mentioned. The board has decided to give full four marks to anyone who attempted the question."