The CBSE board has clearly gone crazy! Oh wait, ya if there was multiple choice questions in English one could probably get 100%, but if not, then how?! I mean, how ridiculous is it to get 100% in any language! There is no such thing as a perfect essay that one should be awarded full marks for it?!
Ok, this is not just about getting 100% in English (a subject which is probably the weakest in the CBSE course compared to other boards)... this is about exams getting easier, evaluators throwing caution to the wind and awarding 90% and above to so many candidates that a 92% scorer cannot get admission into any DU college (regualr course) becoz there are atleast a 100 people above him/her who have already made it to the first cut-off list!
Its ridiculous what is happening to the education system.. what with reservations coming into effect from next year and (CBSE) exams getting easier and marking more lenient, even a 90% is not enough to get the course of your choice!! No education, no future.. how will the common man get decent jobs (if its not already difficult enough)?! No wonder suicide rates amongst youngsters have sky-rocketed! Oh, pls dont tell me the students are becoming brighter every year and the IQ levels are directly proportional with the year of passing out... this has got to do with CBSE trying to beat other boards in results (oh, my board got better results than your board, na na nee na na!)
I know that this probably doesn't directly concern any of us since most of us are either already in college or working.. but it does concern the education system of the country, it does concern the youth of today and one day it will concern our children..
Really, someone has to stop the Government!
p.s.: dont bother pointing out that ICSE/ISC board passouts get marks "so easily" because its not the ISC board which influences cut-offs in DU, and if cut-offs in DU are any indication, then CBSE just got damn easy, much too easy...
p.s2: this outburst is courtesy front page news in the newspapers today about DU cut-offs..
p.s3: i also realise that most of the readers of this blog are CBSE pass outs, but i have 2 things to say in my defense: a) when we passed out, things were probably more reasonable b) come on! face the truth!
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If somebody in CBSE is listening..go ahead , float this answer paper around as a model paper to all those who are struggling to master the language ..with ourcorporate world crying abt low standards of english in the country , this wud defly help ..
Ruch,
love it when you get wild!
Krish!
well... me an ICSE chap.. but yes I've noticed marks seem to be flying around these days. in my days (no me not that old!) only we ICSE chaps had that prerogative ;-)
@shilpi
good idea.. atleast they will benefit someone!
@Krish
yup, some things really drive me crazy early in the morning!
@zoxcleb
i agree, only we ISC people were accused of easy marking and no one really suffered due to it (least of all us!).. but now CBSE has joined the bandwagon and caused mayhem!
p.s am not that old either though its been almost 10 yrs now (ISC 97).. oh shit, on 2nd thoughts, i may actually be that old!
on 2nd thoughts, i may actually be that old!
u think? ;-)
naah.. just being mean... only 3 yrs my senior!
If not I, my mother would be glad to hear that CBSE is enabling scores of 100 on the English paper. Back in the dark ages, i.e., a decade ago CBSE had an artificial limit anyway on how much one can score on the screwed up language papers anyway. If I remember well, in the school exams, language teachers delibrately used 85 as the max limit to let us get used to the idea that unlike sciences, languages are holier.
Also the quibble over the marks is beside the point, when the content of these exams is horrid. Who wants to, in a 3 hour exam, write an essay on the meaning of life (I think this was what I got on my 10th board exams, and invariably it all went downhill after that) or what will you do if you become the prime minister (is cribbing from BBC's "Yes Minister" allowed?), or vomit the approved exegesis of Blake's "Echoing Green"? My shamelessly low marks prove that I didn't give a damn! :)
@ sashi
yet, your (low) marks in 10th dont seem to be consistent with your actual writing talent (from what I gather from your website :-)) so it proves that marks have always been, and will continue to be, meaningless...
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