S.L.C ( known as School Leaving Certificate), which is considered one of the most important and toughest test in Nepal. Does the S.L.C test matters lot for the Nepalese students? Is S.L.C the complete education for the future high school kids. What is the reality behind the exam? Is the result transparent? There are lost of question to be answered by the Nepalese education authority? So the life of student finishes if s/he does not pass the exam? How much government is concerned about student's future? DO the student get their educational materials in time? Are the school premises peaceful as declared by the government authority? I am going to write the reality of education system in Nepal.
Today 13,June, 2012; S.L.C result publication day , most awaited result for students and their parents. many question in their mind. Did my child pass the exam? Will he be able to get distinction or first division? if my son or daughter passes in distinction then s/he will be studying what? These are the question playing in the mind of Parents. "Oh! got please make me pass. I will definitely study harder in high school. I think I have done good. Surely I will get first division....so on on and on" sentence rolling in student's mind. School principle, " let's see how many of my students will get distinction. If I will have 100% distinctions then I will get to increase the tuition fee of the school." These things comes to school principle' mind. Lots of question and answers; before the result. Finally result arrived, let's check the result now!
What?????? More than half examines failed to clear Iron Gate ( known as S.L.C) Who is responsible for this failure? Is it student or government? I know who is responsible but in Nepal nobody knows it because earth is round when viewed form the sky but its flat when we are on the earth. Exactly the same way! I hope you got me. If you did not then live in Nepal for one month then you will understand it. Let's get to business. Today, the Office of the Controller of Examination today declared the result this year's School Leaving Certificate examination with pass percentage dipping to 47.16 per cent from 55.50 percent last year. The exam was held from march 19 to 29 this year.
The news which I read gave me the data for boys and girls as well. The pass percentage was higher among boys (51.8 percent). Only 42.2 percent girls cleared the Iron Gate. last year pass percentage among boys and girls was 59.12 percent and 51.44 percent respectively. A total of 17,760 students-10,568 boys and 7, 174 girls passed the exam with distinction. Others passed in first division, second and third divisions. Some of the were fresh givers and other were withdrawn or previous failed students.
After the result was published, the officer of Examination Control ( i don't wanna mention name) appeared in media to express his dissatisfaction over the result. " We would be analyzing the result later and find out the reason to improve it in future." What a cheap drama it was? If he had been too concerned then why he did not do before the publication of result? Who know the future? what we got to do, have to do in present? I am sure this is not going to improve at all. As long as there is no transparency in the result, nothing is going to change.
I think there is weakness in current education system of Nepal and government; who could not formulate good system. If we do research about this then we will get multiple reason for poor grades in any exam not only S.L.C. Nepalese people considered S.L.C most important and its focused too much but if we see the result of other exam like for bachelors and master; its almost same result. Maximum of them fail the exam.
Problems:
Checking methods: The answers written by the students goes to multiple geographical areas where teachers from different schools get to check the result. They are appointed by the government. This is done so that the result will be fair; teacher will not be able to give high score to his favorite students. Teacher who corrects the answer sheet does not know whose paper s/he checking. You might be confused! But the government pays teacher per answer sheet N.Rs.25 or more. Hence in order to get money, checking process is rapid. Higher the corrected sheet higher the money. Then what happens..I want you to think the final consequences.
Strikes are the another reason for bad score in exam. Student o not get to study properly in such violent condition. Strikes are done during the exam preparation. Schools are shut down. Transportation are halt dues to strikes; if kid are not able to go to school the how s/he going to learn and get good grades.
6 to 6: You might be thinking what this means. This is famous schedule for ninth and tenth grader students. s/he needs to arrive school at this time and start practicing for S.L.C whole day in school. Teachers do not know the learning strategies.Do the student get good score in S.L.C, can be yes or no. Since there is no refreshment in between, just reading and reading then you might know what happens if you do the same thing for long time. You might wanna take some rest. But in school, students must practice whole day in schools about 12 hrs and when they go home they go with the same homework. Wow ! In past students used to get distinction. We got distinction but we did not practice as much as what present students are doing. Still our score is higher than present examines.
Parents are sometimes responsible for worst result. They expect more form their children. I know they are parents and they do have right to expect more. But all the children are not same. They are equally capable but it is not good idea to think and act in same way. If every ones becomes like Bill Gates then who is going to be join Military and fight for their country. Parents should try to motivate and give the student a chance to understand what s/he like? All children are unique and they have equal power to do something new!
late publication of book: many students in rural areas like Rolpa, Dolpa and other hilly areas kids get books very late Sometimes they do not get the books for whole year. So how they are going to pass without books? "Sharing is caring" is the right word to remember during this situation but how long? Government are responsible for this. Education ministries are more corrupted that's what I know? How cannot book reach in a corner of a country if the government had been concerned. I have realized and experienced that the employees of public service office (Government Office) are lazy and corrupted. Most of them do no deserve to be there at all. Capable citizens are struggling in the streets of Kathmandu and incapable people are inside the office planing future of country. Sounds very funny but it is truth.
Nepal is suffering from a kind of undetectable disease. It does not have any medicine. Only one medicine can treat it...I know it but I want my reader to write for me in comment......!
Today 13,June, 2012; S.L.C result publication day , most awaited result for students and their parents. many question in their mind. Did my child pass the exam? Will he be able to get distinction or first division? if my son or daughter passes in distinction then s/he will be studying what? These are the question playing in the mind of Parents. "Oh! got please make me pass. I will definitely study harder in high school. I think I have done good. Surely I will get first division....so on on and on" sentence rolling in student's mind. School principle, " let's see how many of my students will get distinction. If I will have 100% distinctions then I will get to increase the tuition fee of the school." These things comes to school principle' mind. Lots of question and answers; before the result. Finally result arrived, let's check the result now!
What?????? More than half examines failed to clear Iron Gate ( known as S.L.C) Who is responsible for this failure? Is it student or government? I know who is responsible but in Nepal nobody knows it because earth is round when viewed form the sky but its flat when we are on the earth. Exactly the same way! I hope you got me. If you did not then live in Nepal for one month then you will understand it. Let's get to business. Today, the Office of the Controller of Examination today declared the result this year's School Leaving Certificate examination with pass percentage dipping to 47.16 per cent from 55.50 percent last year. The exam was held from march 19 to 29 this year.
The news which I read gave me the data for boys and girls as well. The pass percentage was higher among boys (51.8 percent). Only 42.2 percent girls cleared the Iron Gate. last year pass percentage among boys and girls was 59.12 percent and 51.44 percent respectively. A total of 17,760 students-10,568 boys and 7, 174 girls passed the exam with distinction. Others passed in first division, second and third divisions. Some of the were fresh givers and other were withdrawn or previous failed students.
After the result was published, the officer of Examination Control ( i don't wanna mention name) appeared in media to express his dissatisfaction over the result. " We would be analyzing the result later and find out the reason to improve it in future." What a cheap drama it was? If he had been too concerned then why he did not do before the publication of result? Who know the future? what we got to do, have to do in present? I am sure this is not going to improve at all. As long as there is no transparency in the result, nothing is going to change.
I think there is weakness in current education system of Nepal and government; who could not formulate good system. If we do research about this then we will get multiple reason for poor grades in any exam not only S.L.C. Nepalese people considered S.L.C most important and its focused too much but if we see the result of other exam like for bachelors and master; its almost same result. Maximum of them fail the exam.
Problems:
Checking methods: The answers written by the students goes to multiple geographical areas where teachers from different schools get to check the result. They are appointed by the government. This is done so that the result will be fair; teacher will not be able to give high score to his favorite students. Teacher who corrects the answer sheet does not know whose paper s/he checking. You might be confused! But the government pays teacher per answer sheet N.Rs.25 or more. Hence in order to get money, checking process is rapid. Higher the corrected sheet higher the money. Then what happens..I want you to think the final consequences.
Strikes are the another reason for bad score in exam. Student o not get to study properly in such violent condition. Strikes are done during the exam preparation. Schools are shut down. Transportation are halt dues to strikes; if kid are not able to go to school the how s/he going to learn and get good grades.
6 to 6: You might be thinking what this means. This is famous schedule for ninth and tenth grader students. s/he needs to arrive school at this time and start practicing for S.L.C whole day in school. Teachers do not know the learning strategies.Do the student get good score in S.L.C, can be yes or no. Since there is no refreshment in between, just reading and reading then you might know what happens if you do the same thing for long time. You might wanna take some rest. But in school, students must practice whole day in schools about 12 hrs and when they go home they go with the same homework. Wow ! In past students used to get distinction. We got distinction but we did not practice as much as what present students are doing. Still our score is higher than present examines.
Parents are sometimes responsible for worst result. They expect more form their children. I know they are parents and they do have right to expect more. But all the children are not same. They are equally capable but it is not good idea to think and act in same way. If every ones becomes like Bill Gates then who is going to be join Military and fight for their country. Parents should try to motivate and give the student a chance to understand what s/he like? All children are unique and they have equal power to do something new!
late publication of book: many students in rural areas like Rolpa, Dolpa and other hilly areas kids get books very late Sometimes they do not get the books for whole year. So how they are going to pass without books? "Sharing is caring" is the right word to remember during this situation but how long? Government are responsible for this. Education ministries are more corrupted that's what I know? How cannot book reach in a corner of a country if the government had been concerned. I have realized and experienced that the employees of public service office (Government Office) are lazy and corrupted. Most of them do no deserve to be there at all. Capable citizens are struggling in the streets of Kathmandu and incapable people are inside the office planing future of country. Sounds very funny but it is truth.
Nepal is suffering from a kind of undetectable disease. It does not have any medicine. Only one medicine can treat it...I know it but I want my reader to write for me in comment......!
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