It is reported that the education department has decided to implement an open book on demand online examination style for higher secondary students. The SCERT recommended a complete change in syllabus along with conduct of examination and valuation. SCERT opts for OMR examination style with multiple choice questions.
The multiple-choice question model examination is just blind
man’s throw on a mango tree and occasionally he gets one or two. A teacher of medical science recently told me
that many students admitted to MBBS are below average because they passed the
medical entrance test only by sheer luck at OMR tests. Some of the students
admitted do not even know to write a passage correctly. The advocates of multiple-choice
question model of entrance test may argue that medical education needs no
passage writing. And for them medical education is just a bubble shading with
blank ink!
According to the report, students must evaluate teachers
too. This, of course, is now happening many schools where teachers are
manhandled by students with political sponsors from outside. And in future if a
teacher is unpopular among students’ political outfit he would get a low grade.
The SCERT wants to reduce strain of students and to lessen the
burden of higher secondary examination. Why can’t this be extended to medical entrance
examination and Bank/PSCtests too? To give least strain and equal opportunity to all-that
is the right choice. Is n’t it.?
K A Solaman
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