2.90 lakh students to write improvement exam

HYDERABAD: With state government relaxing norms, a huge number of Inter students are appearing for improvement exam this year.The relaxation was given following an outcry from the students and parents that the physics question paper was unusually tough.According to sources in the Board of Intermediate Education, a huge number of botany and zoology students are also availing the facility offered by the board. Interestingly, more number candidates have applied for improvement exam in maths rather than physics and chemistry.Out of the 4.23 lakh MPC students, about 2.42 lakh are appearing for maths improvement while 70,000 candidates are taking supplementary examination. Out of total 5.73 lakh Inter students, including BiPC and MPC, 2.90 lakh are appearing for physics improvement while 1.88 lakh are taking supplementary examinations. During the previous years only few candidates (in thousands) used to take improvement exams in the second year as there were restrictions in place.According to earlier norms, a second year student has to write all papers if he wants to go for improvement. The government had relaxed these two norms in view of the physics paper this year.Speaking to Express an Inter second year student, T Harikrishna said that most of them now concentrating  to improve marks in Intermediate which will have direct impact on their Eamcet rank.The advanced supplementary exams will start  from May 16.