Exams are supposed to act as a measuring cylinder for your preparation.A student toils hard to succeed in an exam.True, exam should be viewed as a stepping stone towards the ultimate apotheosis of knowledge.It should not disappoint or depress a student in case he or she fails to succeed.Stories of Thomas Edison failing a thousand times before inventing the bulb greatly corroborate the fact that unless one falters in a test, success would always remain a pie in the sky.
I beg to differ with those having such hackneyed ideas about examination.That "Failure is the stepping stone to Success" -I scorn at this crude old aphorism.A student can consider an exam result to be his or her true benchmark only if he or she has complete faith in the evaluation process. Now that calls for a student reposing faith in our education system.I am sorry to say this,but students are gradually losing or perhaps a large section already have lost that faith.
As a child I often heard elders say that here in bengal you could perhaps accidentally step upon any H.S answer sheet while walking through paddy fields!. Though the verity of this statement is questionable, the fact that our educational system comprising of so many regional and national boards, have become careless, is indeed unquestionable.The last decade of controversies surrounding various exam results only corroborate this.But what has shocked me and perhaps many others is that even institutes like IIT and AIIMS, have faltered. And faltered badly to say the least. In case you are oblivious of what i am saying, let me remind you that in the year 2006, 994 meritorious superior students were denied admission to the iit's and instead 994 inferior were illegally admitted owing to an error committed by IIT kharagpur in calculation of the cut-off/qualifying marks!. Such was the obstinacy of these institutes that instead of correcting the error,IIT's have been giving different versions of the cut-off division procedure.With the complete data being made available after a period of 2 years, it is established that Eklavya and 993 other eligible candidates, including many in very high AIRs, have been illegally excluded from the merit list of JEE 2006 due to wrong implementation of IIT’s own procedure to decide the subject cutoffs. IIT has not yet produced the Chemistry scripts in which it is alleged that the wards of few IIT professors have scored amazingly high marks by manual corrections in machine graded scripts. IIT has been deliberately delaying the case by over two years by giving factually wrong and misleading information, deliberately and knowingly, to Eklavya, High Court and Parliament, and thus, has been playing with the career and lives of young innocent aspirants. IIT is influencing every agency, by its vast resources, so that justice is delayed and ultimately denied to the victims of IIT’s high-handedness.
Just imagine,world class IIT needs court to settle disputes involving simple statistics. What a paradox.!
Having a childhood dream to get into IIT, such unfortunate candidates have been silently observing now that their once-in-a-life-time-opportunity dream has been shattered not because of their own mistakes, but due to the large scale bungling by a few top executives of IIT Kharagpur. Memories of last year's failure of IIM's in proper implementation of PROMETRIC is still fresh, more in the minds of those who suffered due to it. Some will say there was a re-exam for particular candidates, but even a gullible would not believe that its possible to scrutinize each candidate's entire test time across hundreds of test centres and pick out the ones who actually suffered due to the fault, that too through a cctv. As a result there were many who had suffered yet were'nt fortunate enough to sit for a re-exam.
I could just go on and on citing instances when our education system has been mired in controversies, but this article is about what it feels like when a student after working his ass off, experiences an unexpected result.It is about the mental trauma, and the despondency that unfortunately surrounds one from which one finds it as difficult to get out from as from quicksand-the more he reflects back trying to reason out why he failed the deeper the grave of trauma he digs for himself. The more one retrospects the more unanswerable questions start insidiously affecting the mind.And you become as confounded as your parents about yourself. The conscious mind then divides itself into two antonymous characters.One 'The Optimist Me', and the other 'The Pessimist Me.' And the fight begins....
I beg to differ with those having such hackneyed ideas about examination.That "Failure is the stepping stone to Success" -I scorn at this crude old aphorism.A student can consider an exam result to be his or her true benchmark only if he or she has complete faith in the evaluation process. Now that calls for a student reposing faith in our education system.I am sorry to say this,but students are gradually losing or perhaps a large section already have lost that faith.
As a child I often heard elders say that here in bengal you could perhaps accidentally step upon any H.S answer sheet while walking through paddy fields!. Though the verity of this statement is questionable, the fact that our educational system comprising of so many regional and national boards, have become careless, is indeed unquestionable.The last decade of controversies surrounding various exam results only corroborate this.But what has shocked me and perhaps many others is that even institutes like IIT and AIIMS, have faltered. And faltered badly to say the least. In case you are oblivious of what i am saying, let me remind you that in the year 2006, 994 meritorious superior students were denied admission to the iit's and instead 994 inferior were illegally admitted owing to an error committed by IIT kharagpur in calculation of the cut-off/qualifying marks!. Such was the obstinacy of these institutes that instead of correcting the error,IIT's have been giving different versions of the cut-off division procedure.With the complete data being made available after a period of 2 years, it is established that Eklavya and 993 other eligible candidates, including many in very high AIRs, have been illegally excluded from the merit list of JEE 2006 due to wrong implementation of IIT’s own procedure to decide the subject cutoffs. IIT has not yet produced the Chemistry scripts in which it is alleged that the wards of few IIT professors have scored amazingly high marks by manual corrections in machine graded scripts. IIT has been deliberately delaying the case by over two years by giving factually wrong and misleading information, deliberately and knowingly, to Eklavya, High Court and Parliament, and thus, has been playing with the career and lives of young innocent aspirants. IIT is influencing every agency, by its vast resources, so that justice is delayed and ultimately denied to the victims of IIT’s high-handedness.
Just imagine,world class IIT needs court to settle disputes involving simple statistics. What a paradox.!
Having a childhood dream to get into IIT, such unfortunate candidates have been silently observing now that their once-in-a-life-time-opportunity dream has been shattered not because of their own mistakes, but due to the large scale bungling by a few top executives of IIT Kharagpur. Memories of last year's failure of IIM's in proper implementation of PROMETRIC is still fresh, more in the minds of those who suffered due to it. Some will say there was a re-exam for particular candidates, but even a gullible would not believe that its possible to scrutinize each candidate's entire test time across hundreds of test centres and pick out the ones who actually suffered due to the fault, that too through a cctv. As a result there were many who had suffered yet were'nt fortunate enough to sit for a re-exam.
I could just go on and on citing instances when our education system has been mired in controversies, but this article is about what it feels like when a student after working his ass off, experiences an unexpected result.It is about the mental trauma, and the despondency that unfortunately surrounds one from which one finds it as difficult to get out from as from quicksand-the more he reflects back trying to reason out why he failed the deeper the grave of trauma he digs for himself. The more one retrospects the more unanswerable questions start insidiously affecting the mind.And you become as confounded as your parents about yourself. The conscious mind then divides itself into two antonymous characters.One 'The Optimist Me', and the other 'The Pessimist Me.' And the fight begins....
This is what a student in our country goes through when results dont match upto his or her expectation.Worse, as the saying goes you are only as good as your last result is.No matter how much you convince others that you deserve much more than what your institute suggests,people will always value you by your institute's name.Such is our educational edifice that some exams sometimes assume life changing proportions.With such limited opportunities these exams no longer remain a two or three hour test in black and white.It is high time Mr.Sibal and Co.realize what the students of our country are feeling and are going through.They have to realize our agonies.I hope that our system understand this and strives to make the evaluation process of examinations,be it any competitive exam or regional state exam,more transparent more convincing,and not just sit with a conniving eye....
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