Grade or Degrade

Time to welcome one more bullshit from the leaders of the education system, the grading system. Quoting Mr.Vineet Joshi –“When the students are judged by marks, research shows that in any evaluation system there are minor errors ranging between 5% to 15%. If that be so, then how can we claim that a score of 45 is absolutely error free?” The second reason to introduce grading system is because with the traditional marking system there is unnecessary competition fuelled by parents among children which brings in suicidal tendencies.

To start with, does the grading system actually error free? The grading system that is proposed is based on the marks obtained. When evaluation by marks may have 5% to 15% error then won’t the grading system that is based on marks have error too? So honourable Mr. Vineet Joshi your grading system does not fulfil anything.

Going to the second point, do you think a student will stop aiming for 100 marks just because he or she can have the same grade on getting 95 marks itself? Or do you believe that introducing Grade E (below 33 and which means ‘needs improvement’) will help them to get into better school for higher education? So where does it actually help in reducing undue pressure? And moreover is is not the parents who fuels the unnecessary competition, even schools does that for the sake of reputation.Education institutes are not sage here. In short nothing changes for a student. Your grading system, Mr Vineet Joshi, is nothing more than a change just for namesake.

You education system guys must have not found a place to mock. “Needs improvement”, which is now a substitute of “failing”; are you planning to bring about a revolution with that? Do you guys think all are sitting with a lolly-pop here? May be you must have thought distributing CBSE certificates will decrease the percentage of illiterates in the country. What is that in minds of you guys?

Now let me show you some truths Mr. Joshi. CBSE education system judges a student with just 3 hours of his or her life; 3 hours is the time of one paper in the exam. There is no way to know how well or how bad the students have been the entire year. Can’t there be a marking system to account for that. Very mild attention is provided in project work and its presentation. You guys fail to check that schools’ soul motto is now just to acquire good results from students by any means. Schools on the other hand are not to make a student literate but to impart education; there is a difference between the two, I believe a person at your position you acknowledges that.

Spare me those rough angles Mr. Joshi.