With the change in the examination session from November to March unfortunately an unholy change in the pattern of examinations introduced by Schools this year has reduced the interest of students in taking the annual examinations. Unfortunately students have started looking at the annual examination for the sake of examination instead of taking this examination as huge a challenge for promotion in the next higher class as it was taken by them in yesteryears till the November session remained in force. Reducing the chapters and changing the style of question papers from descriptive to multiple choice questions (MCQs) more rampant in private Schools has ultimately reduced the annual examinations conducted by teaching staff of schools to a crude joke. Consequently the bad trends started by the teachers in the conduct of annual examinations have reduced the interest of students in the preparation for the annual examination to a new low in Kashmir Valley. Undoubtedly there is no change in the pattern of annual examination for the students of Class 8th, 10th and 12th but huge compromise in the pattern of annual examinations of other classes deserves immediate attention and intervention of the School Education Department in Kashmir Valley. Unfortunately change in the pattern of annual examination in schools has generated feelings of disappointment and hopelessness among the parents across Kashmir. What matters the most is the fact that invigilation in the conduct of ongoing annual examinations by teachers of the schools has also been rendered ineffective as part of a sinister design to reduce the conduct of annual examinations to a merely formality. A student being asked to prepare only selected topics for examinations is another bad trend and unfortunately such bad trends developing more in missionary private schools are going unnoticed in Kashmir Valley. The bad trends developing in the examination system in schools is a pointer to the fact that no value is attached to ethics in education system even as education evolves.
“Unless and until the authorities of school education system don’t evaluate critically the role of teachers in the conduct of examinations and also the performance of students in the light of results of such examinations the students won’t desist from adopting unfair means in examination halls and they won’t in such a situation at all sharpen their analytical skills for the purposes of their brilliant performance in the annual examinations” .
Teachers developing an unholy relation with the students to cheat their parents in the conduct of annual examination will consequently demolish the spirit of performance of students in education. Instead of asking students to revise each and every chapter ahead of their participation in annual examinations the teachers are unfortunately making the students partners in an unpardonable crime which would spoil the very spirit of syllabus completion and sanctity of annual examination system in schools across Kashmir. Unless and until the authorities of school education system don’t evaluate critically the role of teachers in the conduct of examinations and also the performance of students in the light of results of such examinations the students won’t desist from adopting unfair means in examination halls and they won’t in such a situation at all sharpen their analytical skills for the purposes of their brilliant performance in the annual examinations.
