ASUK issues exam guidelines
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, October 07 2016: Saying that it would be launching a reformation programme in the education sector under its Campaign for National Regeneration (CNR), the Alliance for Socialist Unity , Kangleipak informed that Special Task Force (STF) has been constituted to execute the reformation programme.

A statement issued by ASUK CNR, STF commander K Deepak said that formal education is most important in any education process and the most important phase in any process of formal education is final or annual examinations.

The existing education system tends to help students clear exams and score good marks but the basic objective of education is gathering of knowledge and enlightenment.

Driven by this craving for high marks at the expense of gathering knowledge and wisdom, more and more students have been taking recourse to unfair means during examinations.

About 40/50 years back, use of unfair means during examinations was restricted to a limited number of students.

But nowadays, even parents and teachers have been helping students use unfair means.

Some invigilators have been giving answers to students in exam centres.

Some teachers have been writing answers on blackboards thereby encouraging mass copying, said ASUK.

Soon after question papers are received, copies of the questions were sent out through Whatsapp, Viber, Zapya etc and answers in printed forms were distributed in exam centres.

Some students get question papers much ahead of exams from lockers of banks and post offices.

Some students do not sit in exam halls at all.

They use substitutes to appear exams on their behalf.

Such unfair and unethical practices have pushed the State’s education system to the nadir.

Majority of the students are no longer enthusiastic to learn new things and enhance their knowledge.

Ministers, MLAs, officers and public leaders are also not taking responsibilities which they should take in the field of education.

The rotten education system can be corrected automatically if students are not allowed to use unfair means during examinations.

No students want to fail in examination.

So they would start studying hard and they would even start burning the mid-night oil.

By then, teachers, Ministers, MLAs, officers and public leaders would focus on their duties.

Correction of the way exams are held in the State these days is the first priority of ASUK under CNR, it conveyed.

It listed certain measures and guidelines which should be taken up/followed by BoSEM and CoHSEM with regard to Classes X and XII examinations.

ASUK then asked all private schools /secondary schools located in the valley districts and affiliated to BoSEM and CoHSEM to form a common body under the banner All Manipur Recognized Private Schools’ Welfare Association before December 31 this year.

There should be a common syllabus for all private schools.

Subjects/books not recommended by BoSEM and CoHSEM should not be taught in any private school.

BoSEM, CoHSEM and the Government should ensure that rules and regulations are followed strictly while constituting examination committees for private centres.

Only dutiful and sincere people should be inducted into these examination committees.

Teachers who teach subjects for which exams are held should not be given the duty of invigilators on the particular day.

There should be strict rules for penalising teachers who help students use unfair means.

BoSEM and CoHSEM should organise special training programmes for examiners.

It also called upon all schools affiliated to CBSE to form a common body under the banner CBSE Schools’ Monitoring Cell before December 31 this year.

The CBSE Schools’ Monitoring Cell should ensure that students are not given exam centres in their own schools.

If some CBSE schools offered twin options of school based exam and board-based exam to students, school-based examination has been banned with effect from this year Class X final exam, it said.

These schools should close the first option of school-based exam starting from the final exam which would be held in February 2017.The school authorities should not allow students to submit exam forms for the school-based exam.  Even if some schools have only option of school-based exam, the final exam of the current academic session should be the last one.

After the current academic year, school based exam would not be allowed in any school.

They should ensure that they adopt board-based exam from the next academic year.

The Examination Fixation Committee should strictly monitor examinations conducted by CBSE.

ASUK would not allow presence of any agent involved in mobilising students for CBSE exams.

Moreover, students residing/studying in the valley  districts should not go to schools located in the hill districts for appearing board exams, it added.

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