tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9825782.post3530210170874556849..comments2023-10-28T03:54:56.826-07:00Comments on Writing, Is? Fun!: Tenth Standard ExamsRamiah Ariyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04792893365470748755noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9825782.post-66677988716837273842009-11-16T01:45:54.104-08:002009-11-16T01:45:54.104-08:00I read this post very late, I believe. It must be ...I read this post very late, I believe. It must be either your fault or your parents for making you fear for the exams. Its just a mad truth you need to work at your age to save your family; so is with the education.If you need to get some good course or job, you need to study well and the measure of your worth is exams.. I too underwent the 40 questions in science in 1991 batch and got 93/100 and stood school first in a governement school and that too come from a normal middle class family with little educated parents.. So, I pity you, that you werent taught to realise how exams are important and how to take them cool even at the younger age.. Even these days, I love to take exams.. <br /><br />again, to tell, I was not deprived of television or story books or anything so during those days..hopefully, you would create a such a good environment to your kids and not like yours.. I owe my parents and teachers for my positive approach towards education.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9825782.post-80658162975919781542009-10-30T14:15:29.189-07:002009-10-30T14:15:29.189-07:00Hello,
I am the one who spoke highly about the Ind...Hello,<br />I am the one who spoke highly about the Indian education system (and thought that a pageful of slurs on my country deserved a fitting response). <br /><br />You say: The object of the system should be to educate... yeah, everything sounds like a good idea as long as you don't actually have to define the terms involved.<br /><br />The Indian education system might have its faults, but it is doing better than the silly "boost self esteem" approach of America. There are two major problems on US campuses; one is that of grade inflation and the other is that of insane amounts of money being spent on sport. The majority of college students in America now believe that they deserve a 'B' just for attending. <br /><br />The Indian system does not lie to the students. Some kids are ... umm... well... plain stupid. In fact, a lot of kids are stupid... honestly, I would say that at anyone below the 90th percentile (I like 95 better) is solidly mediocre and needs to understand his/her limitations, not get shot of self esteem. And Indian education and Indian society in general does not buy into the idea that any kid who does not do well in school must have high levels of ability in some field or another. Americans believe that just because you are failing physics means that you must be good at music. Not true!<br /><br />And please don't complain about schools not being polite and responsive in India. The school board system in America is the worst possible. You say you lived in Pennsylvannia. Remember the famous case of Dover vs Kitzmiller (2004); where the school board in Dover, PA, overrun by right wing illiterates, was planning to teach creationism (err...intelligent design) in schools as an alternative to Darwin's theory of evolution?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9825782.post-86838813921394246342009-10-11T21:17:26.612-07:002009-10-11T21:17:26.612-07:00To handle the one mark questions one of the scienc...To handle the one mark questions one of the science teachers coing 4-5 questions for every statement in the book. For example: Cinnabar is mercury's ore. He had given the following questions to prepare the students:<br />1. What is extracted from Cinnabar?<br />2. What is the ore of Mercury?<br />3. Is Cinnabar the ore of Mercury?<br />4. Is Mercury extracted from Cinnabar?<br /><br />My uncle who was a teacher would prepare Tamil Medium students by asking them to get it by-heart all of the essays and would ask them to practice with daily tests, run by class leaders and group leaders. They would correct and key students' feedback would go to the teacher. <br /><br />There was an essay that had a list of items as products of forests or some such thing. When my brother (who was under constant monitoring by our uncle because of his reputation in the school) wrote one of those tests, the group leader send the following comment to my uncle:<br /><br />"அப்படியே மாற்றி எழுதி விட்டான்"<br /><br />Thankfully, I remember only the fun part of 10th standard. I don't remember any of the history and geography stuff I should have studied in my 10th standard.Sridharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08903225715273678219noreply@blogger.com