I read this news yesterday and wanted to write a blog.
Today I read about the Maharashtra state board’s 10th standard exam results and wrote this piece:
I feel our education system is in shambles. Something is seriously wrong.
Yesterday Maharashtra State Board’s 10th exam results were announced.
125 students got 100% marks (last year 193 students had secured 100% marks).
Read the finer details. Now there is “Best of Five” system i.e. only top 5 subjects are considered, not all 7 (so first language routinely gets excluded as noone scores 100 in that subjct).
For many 100% scorers, the “best of 5” was 95-96%. Then you add extra marks (max of 5%) for extra-curricular activities in sports, arts. A state level (U-16) badminton player got 95% in best of 5 and 5% for Sports and scored 100%.
In spite of all this, a recent survey found that 94% of Engg grads are not employable.
The situation would be worse for other streams of education.
Education system should be a quality gate and by allowing ridiculously low standards of exam/marking system we are damaging young minds – who would feel devastaed after knowing that their 90-95-100% is also not good enough.
But I don’t think the education ministry and the officials care enough; and private tuitions and institutes have a vested interest in maintaining status quo.
At minimum we can create public awareness about the pathetic education system; maybe the “Butterfly Effect” will lead to something meaningful and positive.
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