Hello friends, for the convenience of readers, i have written this article point wise.(9 points)
1)Corporate and Allied Laws has become a paper where many students of CA final may feel cheated.
The questions of this paper has been very smartly & apparently very cunningly brought down to 4mrks per question. (MPQ)
This means a student has to attempt more questions. So if a Student has to attempt 100mrks, he has to write atleast 25Q.s.
Please remember that this being a Theory Paper they never give full marks inspite of writing the answers perfectly & giving Correct Section-reference. A maximum score of 3 out of 4 can be expected.
2)Now what does this mean ?
It means that straightaway your Scoring Prospects are brought down to 75marks.
(This is because, they usually deduct 1mrk per Question(MPQ) anyhow, under the guise that this is a Theory Paper.
Has anyone ever got 4 on 4 in a Law answer?
3) At the same time students won’t be able to compromise on the length of the Answers, as this will lead to further marks being deducted. So finally the student ends up in a fix as to whether attempt maximum questions or to go for perfection of answers.
4)The even bigger problem is that the suggested answers given by the Institute contain so many points that it is humanly impossible for anyone to incorporate all such points within the given 3Hrs.
If any student writes all points of an answer, i am sure that he wont be able to write beyond 84-90marks and if they don’t write all those points , then they get a maximum 2/4 inspite of writing the answer with proper referencing & conclusions.
So students have to compromise on the Length of their answers. This in turn, leads to deduction of marks under the guise that ‘all points of the answers have not been written’. So a student may get only 2 out of 4 in such cases even if he has given
5) It must be noted that the subject of Corporate & Allied Laws is quite Vast and humongous.
It takes so much time to understand & assimilate each & every provision.
Any CA student will agree that, No one can do ‘Fekam-feki’ (write own points randomly) in Law.
One has to study so many Sections, so many Limits(Turnover criteria , Applicability Dates, etc.).
and only thereafter will a person be able to write a proper answer with logical conclusion.
After putting in blood & sweat a student writes the answers for the questions.
6) I feel in a Professional Exam’s Paper Atleast 3/ 4 marks if a student has written the following (IRRESPECTIVE OF THE LENGTH of their Answers), if they have written the answers with
i)Proper Introduction
ii)Facts of Question – Correlating it with the relevant section
iii)Proper logical Conclusion
And Yes, Full marks(i.e. 4/4) must be awarded if a student has given Proper reference of the relevant Section No. as well.
Kindly refer to what Sir CA TN Manoharan had said about paper correction in the video – ‘ICAI TIPS-How to prepare for CA Exams and Score High by CA T.N.Manoharan’ on the link given below
(If there is paucity of time, then watch directly from 1.11.23 to 1.12.30 - Just about 1minute)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECpaQoenY4o
I’m sure that all the students who have appeared for the Law paper will feel that,
what he said is surely not being practiced by Law examiners.
7) Even one of the Renowned Professors of Law , CS Tejpal Sheth , has termed the Corporate & Allied Laws Paper of May 2016 as ‘Pathetic’. See Link below
/forum/primary-report-on-ca-final-law-paper-358618.asp
He has also given the reasons for the same.
I fully agree with him in this regard. A lot of vague questions were asked in this attempt, where no one could write perfect answers. So this gives a lot of scope to the examiners to give marks as per their discretion.
8) Friends, I have appeared for Law Paper 6 times and have scored above 50 , 5 times.
I strongly feel that either we must be given full (4/4 marks) where we write answers with proper referencing, conclusions (as well as section no.s)
I have found that it has been made very very difficult for students to score with the given paper pattern and paper correction to score beyond 55.
And Law is a crucial paper for scoring in Group I because FRM is always lengthy
& Sfm is always tough.
9) I sincerely request the Examiners to please give fair marks to the students commensurate to answers (by keeping in mind the efforts put by them even to write a single answer of Law properly).
And if many students have given good answers then why not give them all good marks?
After all, they have written those answers after putting in so many hours of hard work and toil to recollect and reproduce those answers.
You do not know how much pain they and their families have to undergo when they feel that they are not being given a fair chance ,to complete the paper and not being awarded the marks, they deserve.
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