Belittling Hridayakumari committee.

There is a planned attempt to belittle the recommendations made by the B. Hridayakumari committee on choice-based credit and semester system. The Committee had recommended mark system of evaluation instead of the defective grading system in colleges

The grading system was a farce with which even below average students get good grade without knowing the basics of the subject they study. This has been fully understood by the Hridayakumari committee and hence they favored evaluation by mark system. The mark system has brought good result and that is why those sluggish students lose their semester. A large number of students appearing for the semester improvement examinations is not a big issue. This allows students to take their lessons seriously.  In the grading system very bright students and the idle ones come under the same grade A. This should end. The hard work of bright students should be documented.

In most of the colleges the teaching-learning practice is not undertaken seriously. What the students attain from assignment work is unknown to their teachers too. Extracurricular works like organic farming, goat farming, milk marketing etc took upper hand over curricular activities in colleges.The teachers spend their time without any specific responsibility. They document everything in papers but no relation with the actual work undertaken.  If any institution had suspended the regular classes to accommodate the large number of students who appeared for the improvement examinations, it  is of  no harm. Teachers saying that many bright students got poor marks despite performing well in the examinations, is incomprehensible.  These teachers also say that students who do not expect good marks are in for a surprise after they receive better results. Then the fault is really with the teachers as they are the guides and at the same time evaluators.  

So it is ridiculous to disapprove the wise decisions of Prof Hridayakumari committee, which recommended  the mark system of evaluation instead of faulty grading method.

K A Solaman