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Testing Times
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Come March and the student community gears up to face examinations. Retail Plus finds out what teenagers in the city feel about exam fever
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March is perhaps the most dreaded month among the student community! As the exams draw closer, they are akin to highly strung guitars as they are tested to determine whether they can cross the threshold and get promoted to a higher grade. The tension is manifold especially for those appearing for their 10th or 12th grade ‘public’ exams. Abimanyu Shekar, a 15-year-old says emphatically, “I just hate the month of March! Everyone around me is very jumpy and the entire mood is so highly infectious.”
Echoing this sentiment is Sunaina Bose, a 17-year-old commerce student. “This time of the year, all my friends become totally different people. Especially with the board exams, many students literally slog it out day and night to get marks,” she declares. The pressure starts to build up as every parent wants their children to score high marks and secure admission into professional colleges. This places an enormous responsibility on the youngsters’ shoulders as they try to live up to the expectations of those around them. “I simply hate it when my parents force me to study hard just to get into an engineering college. My passion in life is photography but I doubt if I would ever get to make a career out of it,” says 18-year-old Nihal Sharma despondently.
The education system has come under the scanner in recent times. “The entire purpose of an education is to gain knowledge about various phenomenon. If we are asked to reproduce the textbook on the paper, then how do we understand the concept?” asks 19-year-old Shaina Saiwal.
Unfortunately, there seems to be no solution to improve the standards of evaluation. It would be a welcome change if testing of practical knowledge is the criteria of judging a student’s ability and understanding of the subject rather than awarding marks based solely on the reproduction of the notes on the examination paper. This would go a long way in truly imparting knowledge to students.
TUBA RAQSHAN
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