The candidates aspiring to become lecturers and research associates gave mixed responses about the question paper after coming out of examination centres of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), National Eligibility Examination (NET) here on Sunday.In the State Capital 6,480 candidates were enrolled for the examination in eleven examination centres.
It is worth mentioning here that the CBSE which took over from the University Grants Commission (UGC) the onus of conducting the prestigious examination last year, made changes like giving a breather of 30 minutes between Paper I and Paper II in the examination. Sujata Bharti of Roorkee, an aspiring lecturer in education while coming out of SGGR School, Race Course, said the Paper I and Paper II were comparatively easy but the III paper was tough. She, however, added that the overall the level of the examination this time was easier than December 2014 when CBSE conducted the examination for the first time.
Her sentiments were echoed by Devi Prasad, a school teacher in Dev Prayag, who too had education subject.Most of the candidates who opted for Hindi were of the opinion that the Paper III was tougher than Paper II this time. Pooja Khana of Niranjanpur in Dehradun was of the opinion that the examining body should device a concept where the standard of examination of different subjects is similar.Coming out of Children’s Academy school Sammeksha Gurung, a candidate for Commerce subject, said Paper III was tougher.
Poonam Kumari of Dehradun who appeared in Education said that the difficulty level of paper III should be reduced for the benefit of students. However most of the candidates inquired expressed their protest on the demand to make Pre- 2009 Ph.D candidates eligible for lectureship without prerequisite NET. They termed it as a retrogressive demand aimed at undermining the importance of NET examination.