President orders relief to students affected by Z score
Higher Education Minister S.B. Dissanayake yesterday said President Mahinda Rajapaksa has offered maximum relief to the students who may have been subjected to injustice due to the Z score issue, by facilitating the admission of some of these students to the universities.
The President has ordered the minister to provide him with details of how many such students could be accommodated in a single university and the number of students who could be admitted to all the universities.
Minister Dissanayake said these details are being obtained from universities immediately on the directive of President Rajapaksa.
He said the university intake will be increased as a solution to the Z score issue.
The minister said the Department of Examinations has already given an opportunity to these students to reapply for the AL examination and those who fail to gain university admission this time would be afforded an opportunity to gain university entrance through a special Cabinet paper.
The government and the Higher Education Ministry are making every possible effort to offer maximum relief to students who may have been subjected to injustice due to the Z score issue and the necessary guidance and funds are provided by the President. The Z score issued by the Ministry was annulled by the Supreme Court and the new Z score marks were released on the directive of the Supreme Court.
Courtesy: Daily News
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Y he wait till President’s order?
This is a simple statistical analyse of what happened…..
New syllabus
means and S.Ds for physics ,chem and Bio
Phy-37.1,,,15.17
bio-43.7,,,15.2
chem-35.17,,,15.7
Old syllabus
means and S.Ds for phy,chem, and Bio
Phy-41.1,,,16.2
bio-52.8,,,15.3
chem-39.5,,,15.6
Ex… “A” student New syllabus…
marks… Phy..75 bio 75 Chem 75
Z = X-y\S.D (y= means)
Z(A) = 2.4983
“B” student Old syllabus
Mrks Phy 75.. bio 75 Chem 75
Z(B)= 2.0925
*SD = Standard deviation
This is the reason why 2nd shy students get a lower rank while 1st shy students getting a higher rank. Though the student “A” & “B” got same marks for the subjects, old syllabus student “B” got a lower Z score due to their higher Mean, & lower SD.