Though both School Education Department and as well as J&K Board of School Education (J&K BOSE) have enforced change in academic session from October-November to March-April from this year but authorities have perhaps not noticed it with sensitivity and seriousness that students too have changed their strategies to fix up their priorities for building their careers as usual. While most of the private schools have conducted preparatory tests to set the priorities for students to prepare for the annual examinations to be conducted in the months of March and April next year for their formal elevation to next higher classes, the students as part of their preparations for future have started purchasing books for next higher classes to pursue coaching for their next higher classes without bothering for the conduct of annual examinations in months of March and April which for them has been reduced to a mere formality. Interestingly the students of Class XI and Class XII are happy to get a bonus of two months period for preparations to the annual examinations to be held for them by the Board Of School Education (BOSE) in the months of March and April next year and they also plan to start coaching for the NEET examination immediately after finishing up their Board examinations in March and April Months. In this entire process of change in the academic session the beneficiaries are the coaching centres of Kashmir who will now attract equally huge response for coaching to class XII and NEET examination even in the months of March and April the time when they under the previous October-November examination schedule were winding up the coaching practice. While October-November session is not better suited to students of both Government and private schools, the coaching centres find their commercial interests in the change of examination session from October-November to March-April.
While change in academic session would hardly make any difference to children of affluent people affording both education in private schools and as well as coaching at private coaching centres , the students of Government run schools the parents of most of whom belong to below the poverty line (BPL) category won’t not only loose the opportunity of getting home work assignments for two and a half months winter vacation period for their next higher classes but they would also loose atleast one month in waiting for the results of Board examinations after months of March and April when they otherwise would find themselves busy with the routine classwork . So ultimately the children of poor and particularly those living below the poverty line will by all standards of understandabilities find themselves at the receiving end.
This is an irrefutable fact that under previous October-November session the teachers of Government run schools would assign home work for the winter vacation period of two and a half months to the students and check up the same immediately after the vacation period. While students of Government run schools as such won’t now get home assignment for two and a half months winter vacation period for their next higher classes and instead would waste their time in preparing for the examination for which they are otherwise ready in the months of October and November. While change in academic session would hardly make any difference to children of affluent people affording both education in private schools and as well as coaching at private coaching centres , the students of Government run schools the parents of most of whom belong to below the poverty line (BPL) category won’t not only loose the opportunity of getting home work assignments for two and a half months winter vacation period for their next higher classes but they would also loose atleast one month in waiting for the results of Board examinations after months of March and April when they otherwise would find themselves busy with the routine classwork . So ultimately the children of poor and particularly those living below the poverty line will by all standards of understandabilities find themselves at the receiving end.
