It is most common that when students get panicked from failing to understand class-room teaching for lack of easy method or from their failure to keep update with home exercises they gradually lose confidence and decide to drop. Outwardly it seems to be a problem with students, but practically it is the problem of our system of teaching that needs to be overcome to overcome big dropouts.
Report said slightly over one lakh students were absent in the first day of Primary Education Completion examinations started last week. Another 42,299 students appearing Ebtedayee Education course kept out of the examination halls as per the figure released by Directorate of Primary Education Exam Control Room. It appears that most dropouts were reported from rural areas to suggest lack of proper attention by guardians and poverty in many families also played the role behind it. Contrary to it most urban guardians are educated and they can afford to bear additional expenses for their children’s education. They are more attentive to watch their study at home and progress at schools. So results are better in urban areas and dropouts smaller.
Most students and their guardians both at rural and urban areas are however concerned with the creative methods of questions that led more students to fear examination and abstain from it. We know that the creative method of questioning has also created controversy at Secondary and Higher Secondary levels and it is better the system need to be made easy for students to understand. So teaching curriculum must be overhauled to make it student friendly instead of asking them to cope with hard curriculum. Teachers also must be better trained to handle students. Primary and Ebtedayee exams are the beginning of public exams and frightened students will never overcome fear. It will rather defeat the very purpose of keeping them in the fold of learning. The huge dropout must be big lesson for Examination Boards to correct the system.
