Exams 

(A Reality of Indian Education System)

Our Education System is turning us into Mental Slaves, and the proof is EXAMS. 

From students to teachers all are frustrated with exams. But Why?

What is that one fault in our education system, that needs to be changed as soo as possible?

If we want our students to become better learners, What do we need to do?

Let us understand!

Why Exams makes Fail our Youth!

We're going to implement a New Education Policy. 

Problem# 1

No Conceptual Learning

            What's wrong with exams? because exams DO NOT focus on conceptual learning. There is a line in the movie - 3 Idiots; Under fear of the whip, Even a circus Lion learns to sit on a chair in fear of the whip, but you call such a lion "Well trained", not "Well educated".  When we heard the line, definitely we clapped loudly, but it has been 13 years since the movie released, Did exam change? Not at all!

People ask, Do we have any other option? are there any better options to evaluate out children? 

The answer is  

This is called "Bloom's Taxonomy"

This divides out learning process into 6 different stages.

We begin by reading and understanding the things. The focus is on understanding and on application of learnings. and the application of Knowledge is analyzed. the results are evaluated, and the learning process is concluded with creativity. 

For Example: Newton's law of motion, we can learn in an open ground instead of in a closed classroom. We can see this in day to day life examples. We are taught this repeatedly that whatever our textbooks says is the absolute truth, but if what is written in the textbook is the truth then why are our textbooks outdated? Why don't we update the method of learning? 

Problem# 2

Exam First Mindset

            What's wrong with exam? because after we write the exams, we forget everything that we learned. We give so much importance to our exam numbers that this race to get better numbers in exam, students cheat in their exams. The number that you can achieve by cheating, are those number really that genuine? You can cheat in exams! but you can't cheat life! The students who use dishonest methods to pass in exams, they definitely end up failing somewhere in life. because their focus is on Certificate. 

The marks you scored in your exams, the number can only take you in the interview stage but whether you will be given a job or not, progress in your job is depends on your skills. 

Problem# 3

We are Different

            Rahul Dravid is our favorite cricketer, in an interview he said "Exams are not the only way to judge boys and girls". Why did he say that? Every student is not the same type of learner, students can be 1 of 10 different types of learners. Some students learn by experiencing things, some learn by observing others, some students study while listening to music. Just think about it, does our education system give an equal opportunity to all these different types of students? or does it give a preference to students who are good at memorizing things? 

We get a horse, fish, tortoise and a tiger to run the same race and then we expect a tortoise to overtake the tiger. The fact is, all of us come from different backgrounds but only one type of learners gets an advantage in exams. 

Problem# 4

RAT RACE

               What's wrong with exams? because exams teach us competition. No, I don't mean healthy competition, it is comparison based competition. Why? because we never see the number of people behind us, we only see how many people are ahead of us. This attitude keeps us life long unhappy, because we can't tolerate others getting better results. Rather than caring about our marks our family was more concerned about our best friend's marks. This attitude of my parents never improved our marks but definitely it ended up spoiling our friendship. 

Problem# 5

Slaves of the System

            Our education system was formulated during the industrial Revolution and it has not changed since that time. The society needed smart laborers those times, people who knew how to follow their master's orders. that's why our education system teaches us hierarchy . It forces us to look at the world in a vertical model. Some people have power and some people without power! and our job ? to listen to those who are in power, not question them and to follow the orders we are given quietly.

What's wrong with exams? It make our youth "People Pleasers". Quite literally. This mediocrity needs to end!  

This is not an attempt to discourage or demotivate you from studying. for now, the examination system is like this so cribbing about it will not automatically make it better. 

but we need to know the flaws of our existing system so that we rise above the system. 

having a target is great but while chasing the target, causing long term damage to ourselves with stress is not right at all. 

Education can make or break India! 

It is essential that we all focus on improving the system, we need to leave behind the exam oriented mindset and accept a perpetual education mindset. 

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Thanks for reading.