Kathmandu, March 30:

Students attending the SLC exams were confused today after finding errors in the question papers of the Compulsory Mathematics.

A Whole Square was missing in a Simplification question in the B1 and B2 set of question papers.

“We have instructed most of the district education offices to relay the message of the error in the question and that students can solve the problem by using Whole Square on it, but for those who did not get the message marks shall be awarded as per the marking scheme,” said Controller of Examination Gajendra Lal Pradhan.

In another question there was difference in a number in digits and letters. The figure shows number ‘2’ while the question in words shows number ‘three’.

Pradhan said that a technical team decided to provide marks to all the questions attempted, as it was an error on the OCE’s part.

Another question set, too had, an error. The question has 30 degree instead of 60 degree. Pradhan said that the students who tried to solve the problem using 30 degree or 60 degree would be awarded marks.

“Such types of errors occur due to lack of related subject teachers in the proof reading committee,” said Pradhan, controller at Office of Controller of Examination (OCE).

OCE had demanded formation of committee of related subject teachers to check the errors but the Ministry of Education and Sports denied it due to security reasons.