August 24th 2023.
Educationists, teachers, and psychiatrists from Bhopal are excited about the implementation of the New Curriculum Framework (NCF) for School Education, which was launched by the Union education ministry on Wednesday. The framework proposes conducting board examinations twice a year and allowing the students to retain the best score.
BN Trishal, an educationist, said that the decision is in favour of students and that the NCF-SF aims at flexibility in the choice of subjects and in the examination pattern. He said that the twice-a-year exams will mean that if a student is not able to perform well in one exam due to illness, death in family or any other reason, she will get a second chance.
Principal at Sardar Patel Public School and CBSE master trainer and counsellor, Rajesh Kumar Sharma, also welcomed the new system. He said that the students won’t need to mug up the entire syllabus and in case of failing one exam, they won't have to waste an entire year. Moreover, he added, the students will get more time to prepare for competitive examinations.
Dr Satyakant Trivedi, a consultant psychiatrist, also believes that twice-a-year examinations will lead to students studying the year round instead of beginning preparations a few months before the annual examinations. This will consequently reduce the burden on students and reduce their stress, leading to a drop in cases of students slipping into depression or suffering from anxiety or even ending their life, he said.
Arpana Naroli, a teacher at Government Subhash Excellence School, also commented on the new system. She said that if the syllabus is divided into two parts - one for each examination - it could enable the teachers to go for more in-depth teaching, and that it should also extend the syllabus so that students could prepare for competitive exams simultaneously.
Finally, Trishal added that the insistence on studying at least one Indian language is a welcome move and that we should be proud of our languages. He said that if you go to France or Germany or Japan to study, you have to first learn their language.
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