It’s like clockwork and has been proven true in many life instances – A little inconvenience now could save one a load of troubles in the future.
Same can be said regarding the need to re-conduct the examinations for the class xii English II paper. Costs involved for the authorities in preparations to carry out the nationwide examination and likewise, inconvenience or hassles of expenditures that students will be made to face are very good reasons to see the non-requirement for conducting or appearing exams for a second time.
However, it largely ceases at a point to convince that it is better than an actual re-exam, which in this case is the most logically and realistically appropriate thing to do.
Simple reason clear as day, is that the two subjects (English I and English II) cannot be the same except for being ‘English,’ if throughout the years in the existence of academics they have been treated as separate departments, taught in different sessions of classes and graded technically under individually different parameters.
Same can be said regarding the need to re-conduct the examinations for the class xii English II paper. Costs involved for the authorities in preparations to carry out the nationwide examination and likewise, inconvenience or hassles of expenditures that students will be made to face are very good reasons to see the non-requirement for conducting or appearing exams for a second time.
However, it largely ceases at a point to convince that it is better than an actual re-exam, which in this case is the most logically and realistically appropriate thing to do.
Simple reason clear as day, is that the two subjects (English I and English II) cannot be the same except for being ‘English,’ if throughout the years in the existence of academics they have been treated as separate departments, taught in different sessions of classes and graded technically under individually different parameters.
Chiefly for this reason, it establishes that the decision of the Bhutan Council for School Examinations and Assessment (to avoid a re-examination and award the marks scored in English I as marks for English II) is rested on easy but not entirely very sound reasoning. The solution proposed is not just near-absurd, but highly illogical.
Drawing up different scenarios in this case, it can be said that students who have stronger command over their language and grammar happen to score easily in the first paper which usually involves questions that test those skills. There are those students who feel what they lack for doing well in the first paper, they can compensate by attempting to score in the second paper which usually is more literature-inclined, includes poetry appreciation etc. In the end, every student works and hopes to cross the threshold of the ‘cut-off point’ by employing this strategy.
The recent Cabinet directive to the BCSEA board to review their decision to ‘not conduct a re-examination of the leaked Class XII English Paper II’ is very timely and easily said, a very welcome move keeping in mind the interests of students and their parents who received the earlier decision of the board as unsatisfactory and with much concern. For now everyone should be pleased with this latest development.
The wrongs of a few involved shouldn’t tax everyone uniformly for no doing of theirs. It’s just that simple and therefore, for all that the hundred years of this country’s education system has achieved and celebrated, hasty decisions should not be allowed to remain instrumental in changing things in a flash of improperly though-out actions.
Drawing up different scenarios in this case, it can be said that students who have stronger command over their language and grammar happen to score easily in the first paper which usually involves questions that test those skills. There are those students who feel what they lack for doing well in the first paper, they can compensate by attempting to score in the second paper which usually is more literature-inclined, includes poetry appreciation etc. In the end, every student works and hopes to cross the threshold of the ‘cut-off point’ by employing this strategy.
The recent Cabinet directive to the BCSEA board to review their decision to ‘not conduct a re-examination of the leaked Class XII English Paper II’ is very timely and easily said, a very welcome move keeping in mind the interests of students and their parents who received the earlier decision of the board as unsatisfactory and with much concern. For now everyone should be pleased with this latest development.
The wrongs of a few involved shouldn’t tax everyone uniformly for no doing of theirs. It’s just that simple and therefore, for all that the hundred years of this country’s education system has achieved and celebrated, hasty decisions should not be allowed to remain instrumental in changing things in a flash of improperly though-out actions.
It is without need for mention, but those who have been the generator of this unwarranted turn of events; they should eventually be sought out and served their just desserts. In saying this, it is not so much about making examples out of them but more of nipping a trend that could time and again raise its ugly head, and make everyone re-live the troubles and the nightmares.
Now we definitely don’t want that, do we? For the sake of the generally-dominating good in this and for the sake of the budding future of a nation – NO!
Published as Business Bhutan Editorial on January 10, 2015
Now we definitely don’t want that, do we? For the sake of the generally-dominating good in this and for the sake of the budding future of a nation – NO!
Published as Business Bhutan Editorial on January 10, 2015
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