Hai Friends,
I understand Ms Vidhya’s plight as I myself have faced such
difficulties. I’m afraid whether this would help her but can be of
some use for other students. Actually, Loyola College seeks the help
of NGO’s and other volunteers, mostly government employees or educated
housewife, for their mid-semester and end-semester exams. Sometimes,
they would be from the same stream; but it had never made any
difference, because one cannot expect them to remember their subject
which they might have studied decades ago. So there is no question of
doubting the VI students. Usually these volunteers are very good at
reading and writing. This can be an option for the local institutions,
schools and colleges, Instead of letting UGC decide. UGC can afford to
monitor National level exams; it cannot follow-up the local exams.
People who sit in air-conditioned rooms and regulate ruthless norms
will seldom understand the ground-level problems.
My personal experiences in writing exams with the scribers are mostly
discouraging. Heres another example, that was during my plus 2/bord
examination. The scribe, provided for me, had problems in hearing. The
person’s hearing was not completely affected, so the person was able
to hear most words correctly and most was guesses. The authorities
first tried to help me out. But the next day, they turned the blaming
finger towards me and said I haven’t prepared well for the exam so I
conjured this funny idea to disrupt the exam. Then I was forced to
accept to write with the same person throughout the exam. Later, I
came to know that the scribe had met with an accident where the
person’s hearing got affected and, the most unfortunate thing, the
person had lost her daughter in the same accident. Of course, seeking
the help of NGO’s is a good idea. We need disability resource centers
at schools, colleges and universities or any institute who can see to
the issues and leave us alone. We should not be wasting our valuable
time in searching for eligible scribes while we could spend our time
in preparing. As the eligibility criteria is itself at question in the
nation wide exams, students should be allowed to bring scribe of their
own.
Best
Syed
On 8/12/11, Amit Bhatt <misterbh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Vidhya,
>
> We understand your problems and the pain you are suffering with.
> Akhilesh, we should also include such example before producing the
> representation.
> Our Examination system has lot of errors and unnecessary barriers I believe.
> The fight has been begun and let us move forward step by step.
>
> Regards,
>
> Amit Bhatt
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "vidhya y" <vidhya....@gmail.com>
> To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in>
> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 8:07 PM
> Subject: [AI] problem in examinations:
>
>
>> Dear sir/madam,
>> previously I had introduced myself that I am studying Bca first sem
>> in Christ University Bangalore.
>> I have 8 subjects, out of which 2 are practical subjects.
>> At first everything went on good but now I am not able to get good
>> result for my efforts.
>> In Christ university Rules prescribed by the UGC are being followed,
>> the rules state that the scribe must be one grade lower than the
>> student and if seniors they should be from a totaly different
>> stream.
>> 1: I have Mathematics which is advanced and cannot be dictated to
>> any of the juniors, and its difficult to train a junior as they also
>> have to concentrate on their studies.
>> 2: Digital computer fundamentals is fully based on circuits and
>> calculations which cannot even be dictated to a junior computer
>> science student.
>> 3: electronics is full of diagrams and circuits which is tricky and
>> needs a lot of hard work.
>> 4: C programming this subject is quite simple but it becomes complex
>> when dictated to a non computer science student:
>> I have just finished the midsem exam, when i was dictating symbols
>> in C like \,{,},||,&&,# etc my scribe was not able to understand.
>> generally in english we write sentences by giving space between every
>> word, but in c every space makes a difference.
>> while declaring variables space is not permited, but in printf and
>> scanf statements its permited but how would I know what my scribe
>> must have understood when I told any statement?
>> when I told my scribe to write %d in symbols she had written
>> percent D in words but how do I know that?
>> 5. only English and Statistics can be easily conveyed to my scribe.
>> when I tryed to explain to the examination office in the college,
>> They are very strict about rules of UGC.
>> every day I study till 11.30 pm and work so hard, but what is the use
>> when I am not permited to write what ever I know?
>> When I try to explain people about that, I always receive the same
>> answer:
>> " science is difficult you should have taken other cources!?"
>> "why do you worry when you are able to get more than 85% marks in most
>> of the suhbjects inspite of the difficulties why do you want more in
>> all subjects?"
>> but my question is Why shouldn't I want more when i have studied
>> everything?
>>
>> this is really discouraging and I felt to change the course!
>> the rules cannot be made general for all subjects
>> in my 12th I had taken commerce I had no probblem if any science
>> stream student wrote exam for me because Accounts could be easily
>> explained if I had practiced a little.
>> Does it mean that Science is not for Vi students?
>> Why should I loose marks where I actualy should not loose?
>> Can any one give me a selution for this?
>> If people doubt that seniors who know the subject can write all the
>> answers and we get more marks, why dont they think if juniors write
>> the exam They wont even be able to read the question paper and we
>> unnecessarily loose marks?
>> waiting for any valuable suggestions.
>> Thankyou.
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