A university examination system that replaces an existing one
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A government-appointed panel has recommended introduction of internal and external examination system in the higher educational institutions for continuous and comprehensive evaluation of the students' performance up to PhD level in a slew of measures to overhaul the existing systems.
Stressing on the need to do away with the rote learning, the 10-member committee in its report to the University Grants Commission (UGC) has also recommended for evolving “a universal framework” to assess the students' learning outcome through examinations, instead of just testing their memory.
The panel has suggested for replacing the current system of “absolute grading” of students' performance in their examinations with the system of “relative grading,” followed by the best of the higher education institutions in different parts of the world.
“Taking into consideration the ground realities, the higher education institutions can begin with the internal and external examinations (giving weightage to them) in the proportion of 30:70 (respectively),” suggested the committee, headed by M M Salunkhe, vice chancellor of Bharati Vidyapeeth, a deemed-to-be university in Pune.