Purpose of education is to acclimatise younger generation to the existing knowledge and to empower youngsters to search for new knowledge. Informal education takes place outside the school while formal in the school. Formal education is tested by boards and universities. SSCE is the first public examination. Guidance is necessary to prepare for this examination. Teacher imparts instruction to integrate knowledge, understanding, skill and application in student’s learning. The complex teaching-learning-testing process is complicated due to one’s illusions. For example a student may create an illusion of fixed format of science question paper. This illusion interferes in study of the subject. Consequently, the student attends tuition to cater to illusions. Ideally tuition is required to face competitive exams. Where in the child can learn memory techniques and time saving methods to tackle questions. In reality majority of tutors inhibit child’s creativity by providing ready answers.
Inattentiveness in the school is linked to tuition. Tuition centres reinforce the illusions of students. These illusions prompt the student to complain on the unfairness of fair exam. For example; SSC science question paper was idiotically assumed difficult and 20 grace marks demanded.
According to the press reports, question paper had enough simple questions. Expecting only simple questions to score maximum marks is absurd. An ideal question paper contains unseen questions. These cannot be judged as easy or difficult without administering to the students.
Expectation of specific questions in the exam is a disorder in the student. Such student mentally rejects the question paper. Frustrations take him/her over, mar his/her understanding and answering becomes impossible. Student must give up illusions and attempt the question paper with open mind.
Exam fear, tension and disappointment of students and parents indicate pollution of teaching-learning-testing process. Educational pollution starts with by hearting the question answer dictated in the class and reproducing it in the exam.
If expectations are not met then conditioned student reacts to the question paper. His/her soliloquy becomes loud and its noise diminishes wisdom to harm answering of those questions.
Society is concerned about the fabric of the examination rather than its essence. Such society gets lost in mediocrity. Totality in learning can put the examinee in harmony with the exam. Its absence leads to conflict of examinee with the examination. As happened for SSC science paper. Harmony between examinee and exam brings forth examinee’s performance. In the present scenario examinee has become prominent with all stupidity and performance has disappeared.
Parent’s worry of scoring fewer marks in science may be genuine. Scientific observations cannot align to the value fantasized by the observer. Students lacking pliability are misfit to pursue science education. Complaint on the question paper and demand for grace marks, point to the desired advantage at next entrance. So, are the complaint and grace marks demand genuine?
