Powers and Duties of Examination Committee

(1) Subject to the provisions of the Act and the Rules made thereunder, the Examination Committee shall have the following duties and functions, namely:- (i) to consider and forwarded its observation to the Academic Council on any proposal to amend the Schemes of the final Examination as set out from time to time; (ii) to recommend to the Executive Council, the rates of traveling allowance, remuneration or honoraria for various items of work connected with the final examination; (iii) to recommend to the Executive Council qualifications and disqualifications of and rates of remuneration payable to Paper-setters, Translators, Moderators, Examiners etc.; (iv) to recommend to the Executive Council, general principles to be followed by the Board, in regard to the preparation of panels and appointment of Paper-Setters, Moderators, Translators, Examiners etc.; (v) to generally review the results (after they are declared) of the final examinations and submit its observations to the Academic Council; (vi) to recommend to the Executive Council suitable forms of certificates and provisional certificates to be issued to successful candidates and statement or memorandum or marks to all candidates in respect of the final examinations. (1) Application for appointment as paper-setters etc. shall ordinarily be invited by the Board in such manner and by such dates as may be determined by the Board. (2) (a) All such applications shall be scrutinized by the respective Boards of Studies for determining the eligibility or otherwise of each applicant for appointment as paper-setter ,etc. in accordance ,with the qualification ,teaching experience ,etc .prescribed under the Rule 27 and disqualifications prescribed under the Rule 28 and a list of all applications eligible under the said rules shall be prepared and submitted to the Examination Committee for consideration. (b) The Examination Committee shall then prepare panel of paper setters, translators in such manner as may be determined by the Board and recommend names of suitable experts as the Chairman of Panel of Paper-Setters (other than those who are applicants referred to in sub-clause 1) above for setting and moderating the question papers and arrange the panels of Moderators, Senior Examiners and Examiners proposed in such manner as may be determined by the Board and recommend them with or without modifications. 1) The Executive Council shall consider the panels referred to above and appoint the requisite number of Paper-Setters, Translators, Chairmen of the Panels of Paper-Setters and Examiners in such manner as may be laid down by the Board. Duties and responsibilities of the paper-setters, etc. 1) Chief Paper-Setters: - In addition to his original duty as one of the paper-setters he will co-ordinate the work of paper-setting within specified time and see that question papers finally set is completely free from any mistake or error in general and incorrectness of the subject matter in particular. 2) Each paper-setter appointed for setting a question paper in a subject will be responsible for evolving a question paper along with its model answer as per approved pattern or design given by the Board. 3) Translator will be responsible for translating the question paper in a correct and unambiguous language, without the least deviation from the original question paper set in English. 4) Examiner will be responsible for assessing the answer scripts allotted to him strictly in accordance with the model answer and subject to instructions given to him by his moderator for his work. He will prepare the mark-list himself. 5) Moderators will moderate a prescribed quota of answer scripts assessed by the examiners allotted to him by ascertaining that assessment is being carried out by each examiner according to the scheme of marking and the model answer .He will also co-ordinate their work. 6) Dy. Moderator – He will supervise and control the moderation work of the moderators allotted to him and will himself moderate prescribed quota of answer books. Deputy Moderators will in turn work under the general control and supervision of the Chief Moderator who is finally responsible to the Board for timely errorless assessment of the answer books in his subjects and submission of mark lists to the Board’s office. (1) The Board shall specify norms to be followed for appointment of qualified persons for the confidential work of the examination, to work as chairman of paper Setter’s panel (CPSP),Paper Setters, Translators, Conductors, Deputy Conductor, Supervisors, Chief/ Senior/Associate Moderators, Moderators, Senior Examiners, Examiners, Internal Examiners, External Examiners, etc. and the other administrative staff. (2) The Secretary shall collect the information from the school in requisite proforma for the purpose of appointment of staff for examination work by the end of July every year. (3) Each Board of Studies shall scrutinise the subject-wise list of the teachers vis-à-vis the conditions of qualification and prepare the subject-wise list of eligible persons in order of priority for various types of examination work which would be approved by the Examination Committee and the Executive Council. (4) The Chairman shall select the persons from the lists approved by the Executive Council for various types of work and appointments shall be sent to the concerned persons by the Secretary of the Board. The Chairman shall competent to appoint the person on addition to the person from the approved list, if the list is insufficient to meet the requirement. (5) The heads of recognised institutions shall make the service of the persons available for the work of public examination whenever requisitioned.