‘Guess papers, guides to go useless’
Kathmandu: School students who are thinking of preparing for the exam using guides, guess papers, old is gold or other reference materials available in the markets will now get cheated.
Students of grades 8, 10 and 12 do not need to spend money on buying such reference materials just to pass the exam. The National Examination Board (NEB) has adopted a standardised examination system.
Due to this system, the questions asked once in the annual examination will not be asked for at least five years. Currently, questions are repeated like every year in the exam.
This news was written by Surya Prasad Pandey in today’s Gorkhapatra Daily. Due to the importance and priority of the topic, we have posted it in our online giving due respect to the content.
Chairman of the examination board, Dr. Mahashram Sharma, said that the trend of collecting old question papers available in the market and practicing and memorising based on that is being tried to end. “The question paper asked once will not be repeated for at least five years,” he said. The traditional method of answering with a grunt no longer works.”
In the first phase, the board has implemented this system in mathematics, science and English of class 10 (SEE) from this year. It will be implemented in other classes next year. The board is preparing thousands of sets of question papers for this. Those question papers were prepared by hundreds of teachers in the country. The question paper has also been tested. From that set, from the municipality to the board will prepare the question paper. The board claims that confidentiality will be maintained as access to the question paper will be limited to only a limited number of people.
He said that the standardized examination system was implemented when the examinees started to become exam-oriented instead of developing their creative abilities by studying regularly in the classroom. Chairman of the Board, Dr. Sharma, said that it is expected that this examination system will help the students to learn what they have learned after passing the various classes.
“Teachers should teach based on the curriculum and not the textbooks,” he said.
During this, the board prepared easy, medium and difficult question papers. When the students were tested, it was found that difficult questions were not suitable for weak students and easy questions were not suitable for good students, so a moderate question paper was prepared. It has been found that the marks given by different examiners for the same answer sheet in the school level examination are very low. The Board believes that the standardized examination system is suitable to reduce this gap.
“When examining the same answer sheet, the teachers found that there was a difference of up to 20 marks. It has also been seen that the marks given by the same teacher today and the marks given to him a few days later are different,” Bishnu Narayan Shrestha, controller of examinations (class 10) of the board said, “Students are confused because of this difference. They are treated unfairly. A standardised examination system is seen to be appropriate to reduce this confusion.”
Prof. Dr Prakashman Shrestha, an expert on the standardized examination system, said that this system would be very effective compared to the traditional way of conducting examinations and checking answer sheets, but before implementing the system, a lot of study should be done. “A large number of model question papers should be prepared and tested on students. After analyzing it, a suitable question paper can be prepared,” he said.
