With the approaching examinations, the month of February and March, proved very taxing for Montu. The vastness of the syllabus and depth of the contents, were too much for him to feel confident for his common entrance test preparation for the Engineering degree. The mobile would provide him some solace but it would only make the cloud of study pressure, even more darker. Montu eventually called up his friend, his confidante, Abhi.
Abhi would be sure to help him out in sorting his doubts, his study schedule; everything.
"Hi Abhi, I am toh totally lost. This time I may not even clear the exam..." Montu's nervousness made him blurt out his tension before Abhi could even acknowledge the call.
"Oh, chill, oye. Me too in same deep water as you, but look I am enjoying. Just now reached my room after a game of hockey. Tell you my thumb hurts ." Abhi's casual approach and his mobile addiction for playing hockey, was not new to Montu.
"Tell me, should we join the Perfect Classes for the CET preparation ? My current class is way down the popularity charts", said Montu.
Abhi, being the more calm of the two, said very straight forward. "Oye, this class or that class, you need to sort out the junk in your glass. Try to understand the test pattern. First, there are sections in the test. Leave the difficult topic, either way, we don't stand a chance. Prepare the section that you like most. Second, try to work by elimination rather than calculation. Just look at the option answers every question has. Pick out the best that appeals to you. Didn't we work on eliminating questions based on our syllabus and later eliminating options based on our preference, till the 12th board examinations ? See where we are. We are preparing for the entrance test. I am sure we will get a decent score."
Montu tried to figure out the advice and more doubts cropped up. "Wait man, what about the time that I will take in the mathematical calculation. Do you even remember the formulas ? I sat the whole night trying to mug up everything."
"There you are, you dumb, I only think of some logical values, who is going to calculate the answers?" said Abhi.
The above conversation is quite common among the young generation. The examination may be any or at any level. But one thing is clear. The examination system has changed and incorporated the pattern of multiple choice questions, which is easy to evaluate through systems, in large quantity without any errors. Even school tests have objective and subjective answer pattern. The students try to select an answer from the given option, with guess work taking precedence and at times fetching good marks. Worst, our examination pattern forces a student to select questions that the student has to answer. When this scenario ie questions and answers having options comes to us, I have a few observations:
1. We cannot think out of the box as the habit of looking at options limits our thought process.
2. We do not prepare ourselves fully for the knowledge that we are supposed to have as there are options in questions themselves.
3. We do not focus on the process that goes into deriving that answer as the problem solving time is limited and a derivation would require more time
4. We do not give our 100% efforts in learning. We focus on getting marks or qualifying examinations not in learning.
Everybody dances to different music and to different tunes and that too on different ground, but isn't it necessary to feel the music ? Same with education and examination.
Abhi would be sure to help him out in sorting his doubts, his study schedule; everything.
"Hi Abhi, I am toh totally lost. This time I may not even clear the exam..." Montu's nervousness made him blurt out his tension before Abhi could even acknowledge the call.
"Oh, chill, oye. Me too in same deep water as you, but look I am enjoying. Just now reached my room after a game of hockey. Tell you my thumb hurts ." Abhi's casual approach and his mobile addiction for playing hockey, was not new to Montu.
"Tell me, should we join the Perfect Classes for the CET preparation ? My current class is way down the popularity charts", said Montu.
Abhi, being the more calm of the two, said very straight forward. "Oye, this class or that class, you need to sort out the junk in your glass. Try to understand the test pattern. First, there are sections in the test. Leave the difficult topic, either way, we don't stand a chance. Prepare the section that you like most. Second, try to work by elimination rather than calculation. Just look at the option answers every question has. Pick out the best that appeals to you. Didn't we work on eliminating questions based on our syllabus and later eliminating options based on our preference, till the 12th board examinations ? See where we are. We are preparing for the entrance test. I am sure we will get a decent score."
Montu tried to figure out the advice and more doubts cropped up. "Wait man, what about the time that I will take in the mathematical calculation. Do you even remember the formulas ? I sat the whole night trying to mug up everything."
"There you are, you dumb, I only think of some logical values, who is going to calculate the answers?" said Abhi.
The above conversation is quite common among the young generation. The examination may be any or at any level. But one thing is clear. The examination system has changed and incorporated the pattern of multiple choice questions, which is easy to evaluate through systems, in large quantity without any errors. Even school tests have objective and subjective answer pattern. The students try to select an answer from the given option, with guess work taking precedence and at times fetching good marks. Worst, our examination pattern forces a student to select questions that the student has to answer. When this scenario ie questions and answers having options comes to us, I have a few observations:
1. We cannot think out of the box as the habit of looking at options limits our thought process.
2. We do not prepare ourselves fully for the knowledge that we are supposed to have as there are options in questions themselves.
3. We do not focus on the process that goes into deriving that answer as the problem solving time is limited and a derivation would require more time
4. We do not give our 100% efforts in learning. We focus on getting marks or qualifying examinations not in learning.
Everybody dances to different music and to different tunes and that too on different ground, but isn't it necessary to feel the music ? Same with education and examination.
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