Bringing an evolution in the Indian Examination system

I don’t ever remember being nervous when ever I received my results for a particular test or exam. I’m not bragging it’s just I distinctly remembered being lectured on the way we wrote our answers and getting bored and thinking to myself ‘Oh, lets get done with this shall we’. Studying in an ICSE school we were asked to write to the point, but it was a different situation in my college, essay questions needed an introduction, the answer and a conclusion, unlike school were in the essay questions we just answered specifically to the question. I know it is a duty of the student to evolve with the demands of the institution but the constant lectures on how the answer wasn’t written the way it should have been can become mundane and not to mention boring moreover tests and examinations also tend to have a tedious effect on teachers too.

“Correction is the worst part of being a teacher”, I have been often told and it says something because I always reckoned that handling unpredictable, moody and temperamental teenagers was the worst part. When me and my friends got the examination blues when decided to start a petition to ban examinations, as it was waste of natural resources (paper), time and money. Since then we have realized that examinations is a very sad reality for our life and there is no escape. Coming back to the topic of ‘Correction’, not only it is the worst part of a teaching career but teachers have been accused over and over again of un-fair correction and some rare situations these accusations have even been proven true.

The ultimate solution to all these problems is to revive the Indian Examination system of national and state levels into Multiple Choice Form. Students are subjected to such form of questionnaires when they apply to colleges in India and abroad. It will only give them more practice and skill. Looking on a more practical side MCQ type examinations are easy to answer and correct. In the initial parts preparing an MCQ type questionnaire may prove to be taxing but it will be only a matter of time in which teachers will get a hang of it. MCQ gives the teacher the liberty to cover a wide range of topics reducing selective study before examination and it will increase concentration since children will be paying close attention to what they are reading.

Any suspicion of personal prejudice can be brought to a minimum. Since preparation is required the whole year round, tests can be substituted with graded assignments like project and essay submissions. Criticism may arise that the system is too westernized, but it is the only way of evolving today’s youth for tomorrow’s future. The educational system needs continuous evolving. New teaching methods are being used on a regular basis, this system may bring about a great improvement. Another criticism maybe that such a method may reduce creativity and writing skill which is why essay and project form of assignment should be implied. Educationists may also say that such a method of examination will not reduce cheating then let me state a plain fact, with every step taken to reducing cheating, kids take two steps to evolve new cheating methods. My suggestion would be to make the paper lengthy so that there is no chance given to students to cheat. If any other criticisms arise then instead of doing away with such a system, it is much better to evolve it.

Bringing an evolution in the Indian Examination system

I don’t ever remember being nervous when ever I received my results for a particular test or exam. I’m not bragging it’s just I distinctly remembered being lectured on the way we wrote our answers and getting bored and thinking to myself ‘Oh, lets get done with this shall we’. Studying in an ICSE school we were asked to write to the point, but it was a different situation in my college, essay questions needed an introduction, the answer and a conclusion, unlike school were in the essay questions we just answered specifically to the question. I know it is a duty of the student to evolve with the demands of the institution but the constant lectures on how the answer wasn’t written the way it should have been can become mundane and not to mention boring moreover tests and examinations also tend to have a tedious effect on teachers too.

“Correction is the worst part of being a teacher”, I have been often told and it says something because I always reckoned that handling unpredictable, moody and temperamental teenagers was the worst part. When me and my friends got the examination blues when decided to start a petition to ban examinations, as it was waste of natural resources (paper), time and money. Since then we have realized that examinations is a very sad reality for our life and there is no escape. Coming back to the topic of ‘Correction’, not only it is the worst part of a teaching career but teachers have been accused over and over again of un-fair correction and some rare situations these accusations have even been proven true.

The ultimate solution to all these problems is to revive the Indian Examination system of national and state levels into Multiple Choice Form. Students are subjected to such form of questionnaires when they apply to colleges in India and abroad. It will only give them more practice and skill. Looking on a more practical side MCQ type examinations are easy to answer and correct. In the initial parts preparing an MCQ type questionnaire may prove to be taxing but it will be only a matter of time in which teachers will get a hang of it. MCQ gives the teacher the liberty to cover a wide range of topics reducing selective study before examination and it will increase concentration since children will be paying close attention to what they are reading.

Any suspicion of personal prejudice can be brought to a minimum. Since preparation is required the whole year round, tests can be substituted with graded assignments like project and essay submissions. Criticism may arise that the system is too westernized, but it is the only way of evolving today’s youth for tomorrow’s future. The educational system needs continuous evolving. New teaching methods are being used on a regular basis, this system may bring about a great improvement. Another criticism maybe that such a method may reduce creativity and writing skill which is why essay and project form of assignment should be implied. Educations may also say that such a method of examination will not reduce cheating then let me state a plain fact, with every step taken to reducing cheating, kids take two steps to evolve new cheating methods. My suggestion would be to make the paper lengthy so that there is no chance given to students to cheat. If any other criticisms arise then instead of doing away with such a system, it is much better to evolve it.