Yet again it is the examination season. After roughly two long years actually. Coz in between were the Covid years. Those devastating two years drastically changed students' studying habits, if any at all prior to Covid.
I am basically talking of under graduate and post graduate students. Post Covid, these senior students seem to suffer the examination phobia. I find that phenomenon a little strange. Let me explain why. Let us, for example, talk of a T.Y. student, for example.
Such a student appeared for the typical exam, with all its faults and foibles, till March 2020, that is to say, till the end of. F.Y. How come a twelve years long (Standard 1 to Standard 13/F.Y) habit of preparing for and appearing for an exam suddenly gets wiped out by a hiatus of roughly fifteen months?
Nobody is saying that the traditional exam system is foolproof. It obviously is not. It has undeniably one too many lacunae and well-known faults. Yet, after all said and done, there is habit formation. Whatever happened, one wants to know, of the rather ingrained habit of writing answers?
How can a year and half of MCQ'S destroy it so fast? Or is it that the very easy MCQ'S set a trend of doing nothing to get wow marks? Well, we must remember, a swollen body is NOT a healthy body!
Pratima@ 'Write a short note on...' is more a test of knowledge, analysis, application, writing skills, and so on. It is a better preparation for the future than an MCQ question made much too easy for answering.
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