Ever since i was a kid i always used to wonder why am i giving exams...what does it prove..i never found the examination system fair be it my kinder garten, my junior school, my high school, my engineering college or my specialisation i pondered over just one thing-what are exams meant to check? Does it check how much hard work you have put in? I know scores of people who hardly studied and still got the same marks as the ones who strived and slogged throughout.So that point goes out of question.
So does it check how intelligent you are? Here again i know many who are very intelligent by default, solving each and every question and problem they come across with utmost pleasure and determination sometimes even correcting teachers but then what happens in exam is a mystery..they somehow end up with very average marks. While on the other hand a lucky fella just back from his hulliganism and play studies a selected few topics and by the vigour of his lucky charm ends up getting all or most of the questions from the same topic and bingo he is the smart guy.
So are exams meant to test our luck and smartness? But then what are lotteries and matka supposed to do.
Can't we do away with this biased system which fools us all..We already have ample examples to show that day to day monitoring of the students in class assignments and in casually organised competitive events such as quizes and workshops would yield much better results and a much exposed generation. Free the already burdened new generation of the exam phobia and stop testing them for their mugging skills.
Such a good phrase of "each one teach one" was coined to spread education among the children who r not so privileged..Why cant we apply it at school level, senior students can be asked to take classes for the students of junior classes it will help the senior refresh his old knowledge and improve his personality and build his confidence besides helping him try and understand his topic thoroughly so that he can teach..it helps i am speaking out of experience here.
The students can also be made a part of a workshop wherein they are made to teach illiterate people in nearby underdeveloped areas and small schools..This again has multiple advantages where in the children from all economic classes can come together and interact and help build up each other as a student, a person and as a responsible citizen of the country. Start monitoring the students on these basis and we might end up saving young students from illnesses like sleeping disorder, stress , hypertension, hair loss, early aging and in the most brutal cases - suicide.
Many medical Colleges have made it mandatory for their students to work in rural areas for their house surgeonship phase,according to me its a great step.At least now we have doctors in these areas who are spreading the much required awareness about mortal diseases like AIDS, Hapetitis etc etc.Similar steps need to be taken on grounds of education to uplift it from its present level we need to follow these young doctors and try and make radiacal changes so that we can spread education and curb illiteracy one of the biggest bane of India.
Instead of written examinations why cant we have practical projects development classes which would help us get new evolutions at a much younger stage.. What good is it knowing V=I*R if i die of an electric shock not knowing how to protect myself from current hazard. But again that is what I feel and would like to imbibe among my students when I open my school not an A/C one but yes a school, i dont guarantee toppers but yes there will be scholars. India is a free country and we can all have views this is mine ,I will be happy if you agree with my opinion and even happier if you differ with your own.
