With the change in examination session from November to March the trends of private tuitions at private coaching centres has also changed. While the coaching centres in previous years were conducting private tuitions for the students after their promotions to next higher classes in November and December months, the preparations for the final examinations whether conducted by J&K BOSE or concerned schools remains the only choice for the students from primary to 12th Class after the change in examination session from November to March by the Government. To keep pace with the change in timings for the examinations the coaching centres have choosen to conduct private tuitions from January to March for the examinations students have to take in March and for their next higher classes from March onwards immediately after their examinations are over. Interestingly the coaching centres have devised the scheme of one fee structure for the examination preparation of one class and the tuition for the completion of the entire syllabus of next higher classes to which students will be promoted after holding their annual examinations in March this year. Since coaching is preferred by only those whose parents afford it but not those the parents of whom can’t afford it due to financial constraints, the onus of taking care of the educational interests of the children of those not affording private tuitions due to financial constraints lies on the School Education Department in Kashmir Valley. No attention for tutioning of the children whose parents don’t affording private tuitions would by all standards of understandabilities create a divide in the process of teaching between the affluent and non affluent classes of the society.
Teaching for the next higher classes if not started immediately after the examinations are concluded in March this year would surely bring down the no of working hours in schools due to which syllabus can’t be completed in the stipulated time span. So the students but not the teachers will find themselves at the receiving end at the end of next session in March 2024. Since weather in Kashmir plays a major role in the timing of examination, the change in timing won’t necessarily be as convenient for the people as it would be for the people of summer zone in Jammu region and most of the other parts of the country.
Such a divide in the process of teaching can’t be addressed without starting the teaching for next higher classes immediately after the examinations are concluded in March this year. By all standards of understandabilities teaching for the next higher classes if not started immediately after the examinations are concluded in March this year would surely bring down the no of working hours in schools due to which syllabus can’t be completed in the stipulated time span. So the students but not the teachers will find themselves at the receiving end at the end of next session in March 2024. Since weather in Kashmir plays a major role in the timing of examination, the change in timing won’t necessarily be as convenient for the people as it would be for the people of summer zone in Jammu region and most of the other parts of the country.
