Changing Exam Patterns
1995: answer all questions
2000: answer any five
2005: write either a or b
2015:ONLY read the question
2020:THANKS FOR COMING!!!:)
Padma Bhushan Mr.Yash Pal seems to have suggested
a mind-numbing(literally) idea of scrapping exams.And
Mr.Sibal is playing "race against time" in trying to
implement the mind-numbing idea in just 100 days.
Like the adage goes "pain is inevitable but suffering
is optional" and hence making exams optional!!!Excellent !
just satisfies the law of nature.
But what makes Mr.Sibal think that kids are pressurised
and in his words "traumatised" by exam is something vastly
beyond rugged comman sense!
The obverse is being conviniently overlooked.
kids are not pressurised by exams but by the famine
of oppurtuties in our nation.A lot of them cant deal
with the consequences of exams more than exams.
I hope a proper discourse
goes into this or he will have to come up with an equally effective way of gauging
a students capabilities,by which it doesnt remotely mean that exams ensure fine minds!!
5 comments:
Indian kids like any other kid in the world hate exams, but they are the best when it comes to facing them.
With millions of students, there are bound to be kids of all sorts, even those who are terribly fearful of exams. They end up taking harsh steps. But they should not be taken as an example in place of many other children who face exams with ease.
Scrapping exams will be fatal in the long run.
What exactly is Mr.Sibal planning to gauge students with if he scrapes exams? Instead of scraping exams,he could work on having more subjects included in the curriculum such that each student has the option of choosing the subject of his choice.This would encourage students to pick their fields of interest at a much earlier phase,making them focused at their stream.
Providing a wider range of opportunities would be a better solution than uprooting exams entirely.
Honestly,who gave him the idea anyway?
The exam, as it is today i high school, college or engineering, is really not an exam, it's just a measure of the ability of a person to "break the system". Cracking the exam is the only objective, not testing the knowledge gained in the entire year or half, just the ability to vomit stuff swallowed the previous two days. What's the use in having an exam in java or fluid mechanics, when you can't write a proper program or design a proper pipe?
The entire teaching system, the pedagogy, is oriented more to cracking exams, homework and volume, than quality or content or application of stuff being taught. it's business, big business and big money!
That's not how they assess people in other countries, everything goes in counting the final marks of the student, attendance to class, behavior, attitude, interest and many such things. As far as I've seen my cousins in the US, they love going to school! and frankly, they're a lot more creative and also a lot more intelligent than the same people of our age, who, sadly, can not do much than say multiplication tables from 1 to 20, backwards! It's a sad state!
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