In the last week-end, on the way to Rajshahi in the silkcity train I met Abul Kalam Azad, head of an institution of Narayangonj. Students from grade one to ten are studying in his institutions. It is a very old and a reputed institution.At one stage I asked him what problems he faced in running his institution. He simply told me that students do not study in the classes particularly grade VI and onwards classes. I asked him why? He told me that in grade V, students used to write in their khatas consulting with the students, and teachers help them as well.
Regarding checking the scripts, teachers used to be asked by the head examiners if his/her students had got fail marks and instruct them to give pass mark though it is unethical for them to do so. When a student is familiar with the exam halls and get marks without writing correctly or writing insufficiently? A very few exceptions are also there.
He has come to the district of Narayangongj around a year ago as a head teacher but before that he was working as a teacher in another very good institution in Jamalpur District. But the problem was the same in that institution. Students indulge in unethical practises in the exam hall.
The incumbent government has introduced public examinations like PSC and JSC in grade V and grade VIII. At the very early stages students have to get mental pressure impact them badly. Many tests and exams and even coachings are held round the year instead of classroom teaching. Students have to stay more time in the schools in the name of coaching and parents have to pay extra money for the same.
Public examinations are not found for the students before age of 14 in the developed countries of the world considering their mental development.
We would like to draw the attention of the concerned authorities to introduce formative assessment instead of summative assessment in the early stages for the kids keeping in view their smooth mental development.
Mawduda Hasnin
Raninagar
Rajshashi
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