Examination Fever: What is to be done?

Examination Fever: What is to be done?

brotee mukhopadhyay

Examination fever of the students is a global concern of the modern time. Persons associated with the educational institutions and parents of the examinees all over the world are well aware of it. A great number of young children and teens pass through a period of terror at least twice a year for different examinations conducted by the schools and colleges and other different institutes. The total program goes against the spiritual health of the students and in some cases affects negatively in the development of the personality of the incumbents. This short article is to find out measures that will reduce the examination tension among the students.

• In India and in many other countries students have been burdened with huge syllabus. They are to learn endless substances within a short time. Most of the books do not actually assist them and most of the teachers are actually not from the section of the population which loves education and also the children. They do not get any other job and try their fortune in the educational centers. Hence the students do not feel happy when they learn. It will be wiser if the burden of the students is reduced considerably. If right persons are recruited for the profession of the teacher the young children will be saved and benefited.

• In the wider part of the world rotting is the unannounced name for learning. The Central Board of Secondary Education in India knows this pretty well. It appears that they are handicapped. The number of students seeking assistance from the psychological counselors has been increasing every year. The number of suicides committed by the hapless students has also been in the rise alarmingly. Experts have been suggesting that the existing system of imparting education should be changed. Still most of the teachers and most of the parents seem to be satisfied if the students depend solely on memory and less on securing material knowledge to achieve yearly success in the classes.

• Learning is a continuous process. Teachers should know this and find out ways to set it in practice. Parents and teachers should reconsider the reasons for which the total pressure is exerted on the mind of the students on the early evening of an examination date. They may happily remember the pleasant days of their own childhood when they have not been allowed to touch the books on the day before an examination.

• It is the task of the teachers to learn why some children do not pay attention in the class despite their best efforts. Socio-economic conditions shape the behavioral pattern of the children. It should be searched also if the children are in good health. The children must get adequate protein in their food and they must drink sufficient water and they must sleep at least nine hours a day. Such problems must be addressed properly and must be essayed to be solved taking time-bound steps.

• Children should not be bound by series of home tasks and tasks to copying pages after pages from the text books. The students are not asked to comprehend and learn and represent as they can. In almost all cases the teachers give notes and ask the students to rot. This is absolutely boring. The task of the teachers is to build up confidence among the students. The students will do the rest.

• Our consideration towards the practice of examination must be changed. In other words the attitude towards imparting education must be changed. What is the purpose of providing education to the children? Is it simply to build up a working force for the state to which the children belong by birth? A vision is urgently needed, a vision needed to continue the stream of knowledge in order to dig out more and more treasure of truth for everyone’s benefit.