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| Polytechnic students cry hoarse, doubt practical exam results | | Technical board comes under question | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 2: Jammu and Kashmir State Board of Technical Education (JKSBTE) is in for trouble as students across Jammu and Kashmir are up in arms, alleging deliberate attempt by lecturers taking practical examination to mar their career prospects.
Not only students but even the management of various polytechnic colleges has come forward with complaint against the lecturers taking practical examination in English of having failed their students deliberately. They have said that a college lecturer conducting practical examination of polytechnic college students should not be asking them questions of the oxford and Cambridge level.
Quoting the example of suicide committed by a student namely Adnan Hilal of a Srinagar-based polytechnic college, students who called up Early Times said that Adnan committed suicide after he found out that he had failed his exams but days after he had been buried, re-evaluation results declared him as having passed the subject. Not only had he passed the subject but he was declared by the same technical board as having topped his class.
It is this incidents which bears testimony to the fact that functioning of the Jammu and Kashmir State Board of Technical Education (JKSBTE)is not only callous but those in the board are negligent and care little about the career of the students appearing in various examinations. Students informed Early Times that if they would have failed in theory or scored less marks, they would have accepted their fault but it is only practical examination where they are being declared fail.
You fail in subject and you have to apply for re-evaluation or re-appear in the subject, said a student. The technical board gets huge revenue from these cases and hence, when they are unable to find much scope in theory, they use practical examination as the last mean of failing the polytechnic students. According to the students, in the recently declared results if the first, second and fourth semester, 97 percent of students were declared as failed.
In one instance, more than 70 students of a women polytechnic were declared as having failed in English subject, surprisingly not in theory papers but practical exams conducted by their own college lecturer. The students have alleged that despite scoring 70 to 80 percent in theory exams, they have failed in their subjects just because of the standard set for English language by the lecturer who took the practical examination.
They added that they were asked questions of the oxford and Cambridge level. "Before asking us questions, he should have better taught us well. No one asked him even a single question about the result of the subject which he teaches in the college. Standards are set for students but none keeps a check on the lecturers who expect miracles in language from students mostly drawn from the government schools located in the rural pockets of the state," said a student.
She added that they have passed the theory but have failed the practical examination. "Our memory boxes are sharp. We remember things but if someone expects us to speak fluent English or do miracles in language, then he is simply over-expecting which is neither justified nor looks sensible from any point of view," added the female student voicing concern over her future.
The students have complained in writing to the college principal who in turn has forwarded the complaint to Secretary Technical Board. It needs to be reminded here that in the suicide case of Adnan, the government ordered the compulsory retirement of the teacher who had evaluated the answer script. However, Minister for Information and Technology could not be contacted for his comments due to his over-busy schedule. |
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