Doing away with the 10th board exams...?

Kapil Sibal’s the new man,the HRD minister, who wants to show his muscle power. Well I suppose he wants to leave his mark as much as Arjun Singh (whose marks still has left so much confusion ). He has started making too much noises about removing exams from cbse board and just have grade systems till the 10^th.

There have been mixed reviews on the same

So to kickstart the discussion, my question is…
How will the students move on to plus-one/two courses, without having an exam at the 10^th standard level. How far can the grading help. Will the grading help the child in coming to a conclusion about the stream/field he should take at the 12^th level…

When we have so many states, isn’t it a necessity to take into account the differences and the opinions of all the state to come to a consensus on this. There is a rough count of about 30 boards in our country.

Even in the cbse schools, itself, we have many schools following a certain pattern that is way off from what is prescribed by the ncert.

I have personally heard from a teacher that they take special permission from the cbse board to have cycle tests( you cannot have tests upto 5^th) upto 5^th .

Agreed, this could be a boon for the children who are already under stress to perform in their tenth examination, and if the child prefers to continue in the same school for the 11^th/12^th it may be a blessing. But again the stress factor will show its face when he has to appear for the 12^th exam, so will we go ahead and again remove the exams.

Sibal’s reasons for proposal, to bring in uniformity, to avoid the number of suicides that are increasing that are related to exams and exam results.. Based on Professor Yashpal’s recommendation, the announcement was made. Though Prof. yashpal, later clarified that he had recommended removal of exams, to reduce the stress on the child and to reduce the thriving tution business.. Prof.Yashpal talks only upto the tenth level, he has skipped the 12^th level as many states do follow the preuniversity colleges I think…
As a parent, with a child in 9^th standard cbse stream, though I breath a sigh of relief, that my daughter will not get stressed to perform, (here the point is that we as parents are very cool about the performance, but the school is very particular), I am worried about what will happen at the 12^th level in general and also how will the grading be done. When the school does the grading, there are many other considerations that come into play. The anonymity factor that was there during the exams is lost.

I am happy that the exams will be removed, because of a few very bad news that I came to know, very reputed schools that boast of high results have more than 2/3 filtering, one at the 5^th, another at the 7^th level and another at the 9^th level…so if the child did not get the stipulated above 75, the parent was asked to look out for another school ruthlessly…this ofcouse is not only in cbse, the same pattern is seen in state board schools. .

I personally feel, a stipulated case study taking a few schools into account has to be done before the proposal gets approval..because a rollover from the new to the old system is definitely going to leave a sour taste in most of the our mouths ….
Looks like a good subject for debate…

What do you say…

 

REvathi,

thanks for stepping in.

That is what i wish the government does, not just make some amendment just because a person has the power.

We definitely need to have uniformity as you say. but will the states agree. let us wait and see..

I still hear a mixed reaction when people talk to me...wanted to know what our friends here think...

 

Bhanumathi,

Welcome to IL from my side, as this is my first interaction with your. congrats on your daughter's scoring 100 in sanskrit too.

Yes. we need a uniform board, but if the decisions were done hasty, maybe we will repent later. the different boards, different rules have caused enough nightmares in the parents aswell as students all over.

We need grading, but the grading should be spread over a period of time say from 8th to 10th to check out the thinking and application capacity of the child. and the performance of the three years be used to counsel and help the child in choosing his vocation at the 11th..

Not all college admissions are dependent on enterance exams. the tamilnadu board has taken away the exams...so how will the children get into these colleges.

In a democratic country with such vast cultural differences, a uniform board will take some time. but the implementation should be done, with the cooperation and assistance from all the states too..

thanks for joining me here..

 

Well kabil sibal has had preliminary meetings and also with the resistance that is seen in the states, he has said that the doing away with exams is only for cbse initially and will be done in a phased out manner in the states within the next 5 years..