Love it or hate it. It's here to stay :-(

‘Present your answers neatly’

‘Use color pens ’,

‘Write legibly’,’

‘Underline the important points’,

‘And most of all you got to get lucky’.

 

 Examination! The very word makes me cringe. The sheer word ‘examination’ could evoke a myriad of stances from many of us! Examination is a tool used to gauge learning; this is what the general idea is! I hate exams as much as I love education. Who the heck invented such a system to weigh the worth of knowledge???

It certainly keeps students on their toes with eyes and ears unbolted, but it’s the preparation for the exams that suck big time... I completely feel that our educational system is not exceptional in this aspect. It’s such a necessary evil.

I have felt this way about exams. Every time I open my text book, from no where Miss. Sleep bumps into my mind and   takes over me completely. Does it happen only with me?? I believe that the present system of examination is a huge fraud played upon us; there is not an ounce of innovation! The technical bias is completely altered! Exams come like an electric shock to students. Am in the third year now, and I have given umpteen number of exams, but the night before the examination has always remained the same, unaltered! I have always had this lurking fear that I would not do well. I can never mange to get a wink of sleep!
Theories and formulas have revolutionized my entire life on earth!
Ah, I wish I could clone myself, someone who can sit and slog over the books and appear for the examination instead of me (with so much advancement in science, it’s seriously 2000% possible). There’s one question that still manages to be a mystery on my mind… am I into technical education or liberal education?? There’s this complete imbalance that prevails in our system. Ideas rule the world and College isn’t the place to go for ideas. But examinations here encourage cramming. I hate to memorize answers! It leads to stunting of the thinking power!

‘Present your answers neatly (what am I going to do?)’, ‘use color pens (obviously, because I have wile away the time) ’, ‘write legibly (and not sensibly?)’,’ underline the important points (probably the examiner is one dumb ***)’ you got to get lucky (this is worst part, what has his bloody mood to do with my paper??) and blah and blah …. Is it justice?? It’s a bloody mockery, tamasha!!

It is all like a lottery, a lucky one May draw a prize an unlucky one may draw blank.

And, there are remarkable side effects – pale cheeks, sunken eyes, grey hairs (symptoms of plague?? o whatever) and it is contagious and viral! How deplorable and appalling!!

I wish I could change this entire system!
’ Be the change you want to see in the world’, may be one day if I become an education minister, I would banish it from the face of the earth.

 

Btw, Happy studying!!