Should exams be replaced with other forms of assessment?

sunandaC

Sunanda K. Chavan
Should the present system of assessing students on the basis of the exams taken every six months be abolished? Many students get stressed and many fare worse in the examinations ! Is the practice to rank students on their scores fair ? Exams test memory more than understanding, analysis and creativity. And on top of it, examination results depends on the opinion of the examiner. The same paper marked by two different examiners might get two completely different scores. Looking at this situation what marks one gets in his/her exams depends on two firstly the student herself/himeslf and secondly the most important the examiner. Do marks determine whether a student is poor, fair, average, excellent in his intelligence??? Is there any other better way to judge the intelligence of an individual !!
 
no exams shouldnot be replaced with other form of assessments exams help to understand how much student knoews about the subject or how much he has studied
 
i feel exams should be replaced with other forms of assement. i feel it is foolish to test a person in one day by keeping exam which he studied in whole year.
 
Well I feel Sunanda has got a valid point here...I am with you on this. As per my belief it should be a 30-70 ratio of theory & practical from the beginning of student life.
 
yes they should be....its high time that the education system changed and students were evaluated according to their talents
 
I agree that assessment has to change from exams carrying a weightage of 30% and assignments and other forms of cases or oral or visual( Slides and their recognition)exams for children.
 
Exams can be replaced by other assessments like practical test that checks ur pratical knowledge...which is more important. n also by weekly test which will ensure that students study regularly instead of mugging up small parts of the whole book at the last minute..
 
YES DEF EXAMS SHOULD BE PARTIALLY GET REPLACED.AS CENTRAL SCHOOLS ARE FOLL A NEW TREND OF CCE I.E CONTINUOUS & COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION SAME OF SYSTEM SHOULD BE IMPLEMENTED.IT WILL REALLY EVALUATE THE TRUE WORTH OF A PERSON RATHER THAN LOOKIN AT JUST THE ACADEMIC RECORDS WHICH CAN BE MANIPULATED
 
YES DEF EXAMS SHOULD BE PARTIALLY GET REPLACED.AS CENTRAL SCHOOLS ARE FOLL A NEW TREND OF CCE I.E CONTINUOUS & COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION SAME OF SYSTEM SHOULD BE IMPLEMENTED.IT WILL REALLY EVALUATE THE TRUE WORTH OF A PERSON RATHER THAN LOOKIN AT JUST THE ACADEMIC RECORDS WHICH CAN BE MANIPULATED

Hey can you give the details of the CCE programe that you have mentioned. This can help all of us especially for the ones who are interested in having innovative methods of study.
 
Although the education system should intend to better across a period of time. However, Indian education system is arguably one of the best in the World. We have been the best doctors, best scientists, bests engineers, and more in the world. All these are the product of an education system, that keeps bettering itself.
 
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