The Hindu : Coaching classes for rural students from this year

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Wednesday, Jan 07, 2004

Karnataka

Karnataka - Gulbarga

Coaching classes for rural students from this year

GULBARGA Jan. 6. The North Eastern Teachers Forum has decided to provide coaching in schools to students appearing for SSLC and PU examinations to improve the pass percentage from this year. The forum, which has been providing free coaching classes by senior lecturers and professors from different colleges for three years in Gulbarga city, will now reach out to students in the interiors of the district.

The function to mark the inauguration of the free coaching classes this year at the school-level was inaugurated by the Director of the Gulbarga Doordharshan Kendra, Shivanand Bekal, at the Government High School in Aurad (B) village, 15 km from here on Monday.

Mr. Bekal lauded the efforts of teachers and their gesture to offer free services with an intention to improve the pass percentage of students appearing in the SSLC and PU examinations.

He said the forum should adopt a few schools in the district where the pass percentage was low and take up comprehensive coaching in the core subjects to improve the pass percentage. Though Bihar was considered to be most backward State in all respects, it had produced more number of IAS and IPS candidates in the recent years and this had been achieved because of the involvement of teachers who trained students to come out with flying colours in the SSLC and PU examinations and also prepared them to take up competitive examinations confidently.

Mr. Bekal said by conducting such intensive coaching classes, the pass percentage of students in Gulbarga district would witness an increase in the years to come.

The President of the forum, M.B. Ambalagi, said teachers would conduct simultaneous coaching classes on different dates in about 50 schools in the district. The forum would also conduct a one-month free common coaching class for SSLC and PU students in Gulbarga city in the first week of February as it was done in the past.

Prof. Ambalagi said a study of the pass percentage in the SSLC and PU examinations in the past eight years revealed that the district had the lowest pass percentage. This was mainly due to the lack of knowledge among teachers and students on the pattern on which the question papers were framed for these two examinations and the failure on the part of inexperienced teachers, particularly those working in a few unaided schools, to coach students how to answer these questions.

He said though it had been planned to give one-day free coaching to SSLC and PU students in the core subjects in their schools, if there was a demand for the classes, they would be extended to a minimum of 10 extra hours.

Prof. Ambalagi said for SSLC students the stress would be on Mathematics, English and Science subjects where the percentage of failure was high. It was believed that concerted coaching in these subjects would help increase the pass percentage by at least 15 per cent.

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