I recently got my results for the 5th Sem i scored a decent 73% which by my standard is pretty high. I also came 2nd in my class, topped a subject etc etc etc.
But there was one essential thing missing in the aftermath of the results, the Joy you get from getting that kind of a score. No doubt ppl may say i'm a good student and the likes but i dont think it is fair to judge some1 from his marks.
Now that i got a decent %age and am in a position to criticize the most common yardstick used to judge talent in this country, I wanted to have a say.
I was never a very good student academically although i always scored 70%+ on crucial board exams. But even if i scored fewer than that i was happy as I believed in my ability that i may not be the best one on that score-sheet but i'm well within myself and have the intelligence to get wat i want someday. I still remember i couldn't clear my ATKT in QMB(math) in 2 attempts and still had that outlook that marks didn't matter but i was called by other ppl as an excuse i made for my constant failure to get where they were.
TO the real point, the Indian education system has always been a quantitative system which meant
NO. of Pages filled= No. of marks scored
I didn't like mugging up answers and vomiting them on the paper so the story was that i wrote what i thought did justice to the question asked and finish my paper get 60 % and be happy or rather indifferent and life would go on. I decide to try and look into the life of students who were doing well and got to this very important formula and all you toppers who are reading this would also agree with this.
I was happy with my life until a teacher of mine told me to start writing bigger answers as they tend to fetch more marks and i decided to "Sell my soul to the devil" and i became this answer writing monster and I filled almost 32 pages in every exam in my 5th sem and wallah !!!!
I got 73% but then i realized i didn't really matter as i was not happy seeing my results.
I still think i fell below my dignity to get the marks i got.
Students always will be forced to do this till the examiners start taking a better view of the papers or the universities start paying them higher royalties for checking the papers.
But i think the exam system should be scrapped and Grading based on various exercises should be introduced which would give education a more holistic approach but Considering what I or any sane Indian in his right mind would do " i would go and sucj-up to the teachers and get what grades i want, even the teachers would do the same thing for the external examiners and so on.
The written paper therefore cannot be scrapped. But the format should be changed which would enable students to gain more knowledge about the subjects and therefore become more successful in the future. There are various different models the university can use (or wait are there really anyone's that the university would like to try??? i don't think so) There can be surely an objective 4 answer choice paper which would make the students realize the importance of studying everything from a subject or maybe the paper can be made very analytical and therefore make the writer of the paper think and write a 20 mark answer in 10 lines or so that will be a bit too much on the qualitative side which students are not used to,but its never too late.
p.s. I didn't study too much I hate being a brain but the money you get in the for of Book coupons kinda help :-)
I was happy with my life until a teacher of mine told me to start writing bigger answers as they tend to fetch more marks and i decided to "Sell my soul to the devil" and i became this answer writing monster and I filled almost 32 pages in every exam in my 5th sem and wallah !!!!
I got 73% but then i realized i didn't really matter as i was not happy seeing my results.
I still think i fell below my dignity to get the marks i got.
Students always will be forced to do this till the examiners start taking a better view of the papers or the universities start paying them higher royalties for checking the papers.
But i think the exam system should be scrapped and Grading based on various exercises should be introduced which would give education a more holistic approach but Considering what I or any sane Indian in his right mind would do " i would go and sucj-up to the teachers and get what grades i want, even the teachers would do the same thing for the external examiners and so on.
The written paper therefore cannot be scrapped. But the format should be changed which would enable students to gain more knowledge about the subjects and therefore become more successful in the future. There are various different models the university can use (or wait are there really anyone's that the university would like to try??? i don't think so) There can be surely an objective 4 answer choice paper which would make the students realize the importance of studying everything from a subject or maybe the paper can be made very analytical and therefore make the writer of the paper think and write a 20 mark answer in 10 lines or so that will be a bit too much on the qualitative side which students are not used to,but its never too late.
p.s. I didn't study too much I hate being a brain but the money you get in the for of Book coupons kinda help :-)
