essay about 150 -200 words on - entrance examination - A boon or bane
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Examination is an assessment intended to measure a student’s knowledge, skill, aptitude, physical fitness and classification in many other topics. Exams are necessary in schools to find out the real skills, talents and knowledge of the students. They get directed towards higher education after completing their examination from a particular grade. Peer pressure, parental pressure and the pressure at school are developing stress among the students. On the other hand, exams can provide teachers with valuable information as to whether they need to change their teaching styles or not. In this essay, I am going to share whether examination is a bane or a boon in our education system.
1.2 Two Types of Methodologies
In India, the education system is constructed on two types of methodologies: teaching methodology and learning methodology. If a school follows ‘learning methodology’ (like activity based learning, active learning methodology, etc.), the examination is built within the learning process, which means that there is no separate exam. Students do self-evaluation, projects, etc. while they are learning the content. Here examination is done on the basis of students’ learning. But if a school follows ‘teaching methodology’ (like traditional method of teaching), the students take an exam after the syllabus is completed. Students are expected to perform well in all kinds of exams throughout the year with no respite. It is not a good sign as it will create stress among students.
1.3 Support for Examination is a Bane
1.3.1 Experience # 1: Magesh Kumar, who was one of the most intelligent students I have ever seen in my life studied 12th Grade in my class during 2002-2003. He was quite interested in participating in science fairs. Every day, he brought new innovative ideas and shared it with the class. But he hated memorization! He was not interested in memorizing what was given in the text book but very much interested in doing new projects. Unfortunately, his Parents’ demands created a lot of pressure on him. They pressurised him to get more than 90%. He gave in to the pressures by hanging himself by a fan at his home on the day result was announced. He had scored 92% in the final exams but he was no more to hear this news. This was my worst experience regarding exams.
1.3.2 Experience # 2: It was a language examination that I was supervising in the exam hall. One of the students in the hall took out a small piece of paper from his pocket and started to copy. Obviously, when I saw that, I caught him red-handed. I found that it was just a story written in Tamil language which, if he read just once, he could write. But he was not interested even to read it once. The problem is that everyone wants their child to be called a genius and hence comparison starts. If the child is not able to become a genius, then they start to cheat.
1.3.3 Experience # 3: Last year, I conducted one unit test in which one student, named Prakash (name changed), failed. It was a small, easy lesson. So, I scolded him a little with anger. He stopped coming to school from the next day. I tried many ways to bring him back to school but I failed all the time. He dropped out of the school because of pressures imposed by me! This incident hurt me lot.