MBBS, BDS form confuses many

ARUN RAM

CHENNAI, JUNE 12: The information furnished here is `ture.' While the Oxford English Dictionary may not contain such a word, the misspelt `true' appears in the MBBS, BDS application form, confusing thousands of aspiring doctors.If confusion is, as medicine says, too many responses to one stimulus and one response to too many stimuli, the application form qualifies as its perfect cause. Had it been just the spelling mistake in the solemn declaration to be signed by the candidates who have taken the Tamil Nadu Professional Courses Entrance Examinations- '99, the candidates would have taken it for a printer's devil. But there are more; and worse.

A sample: Seriel number 17 asks for one's ``weighted total marks for a maximum of 200 percentage in biology.'' Does 200 per cent mean doubling of marks? Or does it indicate the marks out of a total of 200? There are no answers yet. Doubling the marks will exaggerate one's aggregate, while the second option puts the candidate at the risk of lagging behind competitorsfor no fault of his.

One is asked to encircle one's code to denote one's preference of medium of instruction (Sl no. 13). There are three boxes, for Tamil, English and `others.' The only thing missing here are the codes. Even if one codes it as 01, 02 and 03 respectively, the options come in a different order in another sheet. Seriel number 16 C has a relatively harmless mistake: ``Marks is select subjects.''

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