There is much hue and cry over the fact that a lot of students were unable to pass the Physics II paper of the Intermediate Exams of AP state.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/article2995458.ece
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gKXKTZ1Wyn8
The paper is being considered tough because it contained questions that were not in the previous years papers and were also not found in the Question Banks/Guides that many of these private educational institutions make their students study. The paper is completely ordinary and did not even had any subject matter that was not present in the standard text books, in fact the questions were picked up straight from the text books. The parents say that students should be awarded 10~15 grace marks so they can attend EAMCET or IIT JEE exams. The educational institutions say that paper should be set in such a way that every student can handle them easily. Leave alone asking any question on the subject covered, they don't even want questions form the text books. They want questions to be from small subset of the subject and easily present in the guides/question banks that they provide. The students want liberal evaluation of the papers and marks to be awarded freely so that no student fails.
Is this what education is reducing to in our country? What are exams for? are they not to gauge how far the student has understood the subject and its practical applicability? What is the use of a exam whose aim is to allow all students to pass just by getting stuff by heart form a guide or question bank without any real understanding of it?
Just for the record there are many students who scored a cent in this paper and there are many who failed despite which they have a total of 900+ out of 1000... yes that's a 90%. Is there any meaning to that 90% or to the means they obtained that?
Whose fault is it. Is it the Boards that they gave a paper that did not meet the expectations of the students despite there not being a single question that was not present in the standard text books. Is it the fault of the educational institutions and their methods? Is it the fault of the parents that they force their children into the rat race for high marks regards of the method rather than getting them an education. Is it the fault of the students that they go along with all this? What ever it is, its the students and the country that stand to lose in the end.
Guy's your thoughts and opinions....
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/article2995458.ece
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gKXKTZ1Wyn8
The paper is being considered tough because it contained questions that were not in the previous years papers and were also not found in the Question Banks/Guides that many of these private educational institutions make their students study. The paper is completely ordinary and did not even had any subject matter that was not present in the standard text books, in fact the questions were picked up straight from the text books. The parents say that students should be awarded 10~15 grace marks so they can attend EAMCET or IIT JEE exams. The educational institutions say that paper should be set in such a way that every student can handle them easily. Leave alone asking any question on the subject covered, they don't even want questions form the text books. They want questions to be from small subset of the subject and easily present in the guides/question banks that they provide. The students want liberal evaluation of the papers and marks to be awarded freely so that no student fails.
Is this what education is reducing to in our country? What are exams for? are they not to gauge how far the student has understood the subject and its practical applicability? What is the use of a exam whose aim is to allow all students to pass just by getting stuff by heart form a guide or question bank without any real understanding of it?
Just for the record there are many students who scored a cent in this paper and there are many who failed despite which they have a total of 900+ out of 1000... yes that's a 90%. Is there any meaning to that 90% or to the means they obtained that?
Whose fault is it. Is it the Boards that they gave a paper that did not meet the expectations of the students despite there not being a single question that was not present in the standard text books. Is it the fault of the educational institutions and their methods? Is it the fault of the parents that they force their children into the rat race for high marks regards of the method rather than getting them an education. Is it the fault of the students that they go along with all this? What ever it is, its the students and the country that stand to lose in the end.
Guy's your thoughts and opinions....