Md. Bayazid Khan :
Initiatives like supplying free books to primary and secondary level students, ensuring free education for girls, implementing free and compulsory primary education, supporting poor primary children by giving stipend, providing stipend for girls up to graduation level, ensuring education for underprivileged never enrolled and dropped-out children etc are efforts of the government towards building educated nation. Despite providing remarkable supports in education sector, some dishonest persons are trying to make government’s efforts unsuccessful. The country is facing a crucial challenge now a days. Talk of the country is about the issue of questions leakages in the public examinations. A group of dishonest people are responsible for provoking students, parents, guardians, educationists and even the government for their unethical activities of spreading rumour of question leakage or publishing fake/part of real questions through face book.
The burning question to the government is to address the challenge through taking stunning action not hiding the real situation. All concerned to the public examinations, admission tests and examinations for appointment in jobs should identify the roots of the problem for addressing it permanently rather showing the tendency of avoiding the problem. The problem might affect epidemically in the future if the concerned take it lightly. This is the high time to take strong punitive action against dishonest people as preventive measure for solving the issue for ever. Otherwise our future generation will be destroyed involving them with corruption and immoral activities of the vicious cycle of corruption. Vicious cycle means a student, when he/she starts his/her journey of study with unfair means, he/she definitely expects such type of short cut way of passing examinations in the next stages of education and even in the admission tests and selection procedures of getting job. This group of immoral people will definitely involve with corruption and other unethical activities in their jobs, professions, politics and everyday life that eventually lead the country to disaster.
The issue of leak of age of questions may happen for two reasons. One is for earning more money by dishonest coaching centers owners with a view to show publicly their superior performance in the public examinations over other coaching centers as ill competition. People never heard the news of question leakage incidents in case of Ebtedayee Madrasha Completion Examination, JDS, Alim, Fazil, Kamil examinations etc as there are no coaching centers for Madrasha students.
So, the government and all concerned badly need to take following steps to address the crisis for the betterment of education sector with a view to build effective country- friendly skilled future generation as well as to free the country from the curse of vicious cycle of corruption.
Panic should be created by taking quick legal actions against concerned teachers, parents, students etc if they are responsible for occurrences of any kind of unethical activities related to examination in and outside examination centers.
There should be a mobile court in each and every examination center for taking quick punitive actions for committing unethical and illegal activities during examination. Before entering into the center, examinees and teachers should be checked by members of law enforcing agencies whether they bring mobile, tab, digital camera, pen, headphone etc and the dishonest should be punished by mobile court.
During public examinations, admission tests and examinations for appointment in jobs, SMS services of mobile phone companies and face book/twitter facilities might be suspended temporarily.
Uses of mobile and digital sophisticated camera, pen, wristwatch and headphone etc might be prohibited to examination centers by examinees and in case of using these punitive actions against concerned examinees should be taken spontaneously through mobile court.
Coaching centers should be closed by making law, rather provision of coaching for students may be allowed in the concerned institutions by teachers.
Advertisement of educational institutions/coaching centers in the forms of bill board, banner, poster, wall writing should be banned. Rather educational institutions may have brochure to introduce the institution to parents.
Development of questions/test items and procedure of question’s receipt by examinees in the centers might be digitalised. Skilled, honest, sincere and expertise teachers/officials should be involved in developing and distribution of questions.
Questions may be sent to the centers through e-mail before one hour of starting examination and there should be significant numbers of photocopy machines in the centers. Examination centers should be upazila headquarter- based. But considering communication facilities additional centers outside headquarter might be arranged only for JSC/JDC and PECE examinations.
Region-wise questions might be developed for dispelling the problem of postponing nationwide examinations if any undue occurrence happens regarding question leakage in any place.
MCQ types of questions might be kept in fewer numbers in the objective portion of questions rather Fill in the Gaps, Matching, True-False; short questions etc might be kept in larger numbers. Marks in the objective portion might be given according to proportionate rate of examinee’s received marks in the subjective portion if received marks by the examinee vary significantly in the objective and subjective part of a particular subject. This method may be applied in the subjects that have practical examinations.
Initiatives like supplying free books to primary and secondary level students, ensuring free education for girls, implementing free and compulsory primary education, supporting poor primary children by giving stipend, providing stipend for girls up to graduation level, ensuring education for underprivileged never enrolled and dropped-out children etc are efforts of the government towards building educated nation. Despite providing remarkable supports in education sector, some dishonest persons are trying to make government’s efforts unsuccessful. The country is facing a crucial challenge now a days. Talk of the country is about the issue of questions leakages in the public examinations. A group of dishonest people are responsible for provoking students, parents, guardians, educationists and even the government for their unethical activities of spreading rumour of question leakage or publishing fake/part of real questions through face book.
The burning question to the government is to address the challenge through taking stunning action not hiding the real situation. All concerned to the public examinations, admission tests and examinations for appointment in jobs should identify the roots of the problem for addressing it permanently rather showing the tendency of avoiding the problem. The problem might affect epidemically in the future if the concerned take it lightly. This is the high time to take strong punitive action against dishonest people as preventive measure for solving the issue for ever. Otherwise our future generation will be destroyed involving them with corruption and immoral activities of the vicious cycle of corruption. Vicious cycle means a student, when he/she starts his/her journey of study with unfair means, he/she definitely expects such type of short cut way of passing examinations in the next stages of education and even in the admission tests and selection procedures of getting job. This group of immoral people will definitely involve with corruption and other unethical activities in their jobs, professions, politics and everyday life that eventually lead the country to disaster.
The issue of leak of age of questions may happen for two reasons. One is for earning more money by dishonest coaching centers owners with a view to show publicly their superior performance in the public examinations over other coaching centers as ill competition. People never heard the news of question leakage incidents in case of Ebtedayee Madrasha Completion Examination, JDS, Alim, Fazil, Kamil examinations etc as there are no coaching centers for Madrasha students.
So, the government and all concerned badly need to take following steps to address the crisis for the betterment of education sector with a view to build effective country- friendly skilled future generation as well as to free the country from the curse of vicious cycle of corruption.
Panic should be created by taking quick legal actions against concerned teachers, parents, students etc if they are responsible for occurrences of any kind of unethical activities related to examination in and outside examination centers.
There should be a mobile court in each and every examination center for taking quick punitive actions for committing unethical and illegal activities during examination. Before entering into the center, examinees and teachers should be checked by members of law enforcing agencies whether they bring mobile, tab, digital camera, pen, headphone etc and the dishonest should be punished by mobile court.
During public examinations, admission tests and examinations for appointment in jobs, SMS services of mobile phone companies and face book/twitter facilities might be suspended temporarily.
Uses of mobile and digital sophisticated camera, pen, wristwatch and headphone etc might be prohibited to examination centers by examinees and in case of using these punitive actions against concerned examinees should be taken spontaneously through mobile court.
Coaching centers should be closed by making law, rather provision of coaching for students may be allowed in the concerned institutions by teachers.
Advertisement of educational institutions/coaching centers in the forms of bill board, banner, poster, wall writing should be banned. Rather educational institutions may have brochure to introduce the institution to parents.
Development of questions/test items and procedure of question’s receipt by examinees in the centers might be digitalised. Skilled, honest, sincere and expertise teachers/officials should be involved in developing and distribution of questions.
Questions may be sent to the centers through e-mail before one hour of starting examination and there should be significant numbers of photocopy machines in the centers. Examination centers should be upazila headquarter- based. But considering communication facilities additional centers outside headquarter might be arranged only for JSC/JDC and PECE examinations.
Region-wise questions might be developed for dispelling the problem of postponing nationwide examinations if any undue occurrence happens regarding question leakage in any place.
MCQ types of questions might be kept in fewer numbers in the objective portion of questions rather Fill in the Gaps, Matching, True-False; short questions etc might be kept in larger numbers. Marks in the objective portion might be given according to proportionate rate of examinee’s received marks in the subjective portion if received marks by the examinee vary significantly in the objective and subjective part of a particular subject. This method may be applied in the subjects that have practical examinations.
