Examination
is a process to assess a student and measure his or her knowledge, ability,
aptitude, and progress. Regress of learners, teachers and policymakers of the education system can find out the points where possible amendment should be
done. It helps us to realize whether the education system is on the right way
to build up a better future.
Recently
the trend has become to compare any exam with war. But how logical is it to
make comparison an examination to a war? I am afraid of it. If you consider it
only as simile and metaphor, it will be your mistake, perhaps, as this
comparison can harm green and immature human brains. Sometimes terms of
'figurative of speech' can bring strong meaning, it is known to all. But if
these impacts to run people on an unwanted way, it should be avoided--since there
are huge differences between literature and real life.
'War' is
a word in the dictionary everybody knows this and it may a good term for making
comparisons when we talk and express our feelings with another, but the term is
not so normal as we think. This contains very cruel meaning in deep. An examination is not so serious and dangerous as war. War is related to rights or
revenge, and sacrificing blood and life. The examination is related to assess
pupils' learning and knowledge stage. But media has been using the term 'war'
as synonym 'examination' in Bangladesh. Admission test to enter into higher
education has been highly considered as a war for long, but now, all kind of examinations
is compared to war without inner-processing.
Media
describe examination in such a way that every examination or test is synonymous
as fight and war; it keeps the boys and girls under heavy psychological
pressure.
There
are some people or guardians who follow a theory like "do not put your
child on the ground, they may be destroyed"; that means these parents are
so much aware of that their 'children will do nothing'. They love to provide
their children readymade things, even though without need. I can say they are
over-conscious about the offspring's demand. That is why one of the major parts of
the green and unripe portion of the nation may have been unripe forever because
they cannot understand what should be needed for their betterment and what they
should avoid. This type of careless care of parents can make a child autistic or
psychologically and physically backward or imbalanced.
There
are other types of parents who try to keep their children on chair-table for most of the portion of a day. They seem if kids study a lot, they will
learn so much which can bring best results. This kind of results will bring
hilarious social status for them, and people will applause them by giving big
hands, they believe as well.
You will
find other types of parents who are not concerned about their children. They
are as careless as they are not aware of lenient children's eagerness. But they
want their children will make happy them by obtaining good marks in
examinations. Sometimes they manage black way to manage good result for children.
But when their expectation goes to vain or becomes failed, they blow up their
child by calling bad names or flogging. Can you imagine what is being happened?
Once I
asked one of my teachers how he observed and monitored his children's study.
The respected teacher replied that he never created pressure on his children so
much to do well and get the top of every class. He believes in learning, not in
getting higher or highest marks. But my teacher wants his children to study
well; as a dad, sometimes he has to follow the strategy of soft-threat, in a
short discussion he made me know these.
The goal
of the education system of a country cannot be offering better grades to the
students in the exam. One of the major objectives of education is to make the best
citizens by providing suitable and time befitting knowledge to the learners.
Bangladesh's National Education Policy-2010 says the same in 30 points aims and
objectives.
Education
activists, educationists or education specialist, education researchers, and
who think about education never say the result of highest value in numbers should
be achieved, they all want the implementation of pure and solid education; then why
do we run for making glorious results without proper learning?
It is
expected that institutes will try to become more successful than previous
years. In recent years we see some schools and colleges are aiming
brilliant ambition, trying to make the institutions successful as competitors
will feel jealous or their number of students will increase by seeing the
results. In this case, their purpose is to serve economic interests.
You will
be shocked that the majority of these types of institutes do not do this in a legal
way; most of the times they make deal or oral contract with examination centre
or venue institutions to help their examinees in the halls. In return, the
second party gets some dirty money. Sometimes attached officers in charge have
to make company with them. So it, the situation is so dire, who will heal it?
There
are so many people around us who always expect glorious results from the
students and ignore who are not able to make them satisfied with their results.
Sometimes, some who make better results, one step away from best, do not get
appreciation or claps from society, even from their family members. These
are not obviously good signs for our future generation. National stream of
education of no country wants this result based valueless education, but it seems that authentic education is overthrown to result based education in
Bangladesh.
And this
wicked culture has been acclimatized by a large number of Bangladeshi little
and teenage learners and they are taking any examination as war as media and
some of the common people have made them understood. That is why boys and girls run
after results; they believe only a good result can make a bright future and try
to get good results by any means. Real learners are aware of if they want
to make good results, the study is a must. But sometimes they keep themselves in the
race in a destructive way, even though they know that it is one type of crime.
No
examination should be compared with war even though it is rhetorical. An
examination or test evaluates how much a student has learned and where the gaps
in their learning; it aims at correcting students. Teachers can evaluate them
through a successful examination as educators. It also can say and measure how
much fruitful their teaching methods and strategies are as well.
I
request the people of all classes not to compare examination with war and
pressurize students to get higher marks in the examination. A good result does not
always mean the entire thing is good. Learners should find themselves
interested in learning and attending fair examination without extra pressure.
- Md. Mizanur Rahaman Mizan
Follow @MizanurRMIZAN(An edition of this article is published in the Daily Observer titled Do not run after good result on Wednesday, 27 February, 2019 )