College where students get answers before exam

A college in Malad has started a unique practice to improve the performance of its students: it gives out answers of the questions they are going to test students on before the exam.

T S Bafana Junior College of Arts and Commerce, which recently concluded its first unit examinations for Class XI candidates, had many of its freshmen shocked at the manner in which they were assessed. They were merely tested for fill in the blanks, whereas the board rules that candidates must be quizzed on several multiple choice questions.

In fact, this paper had a copy of the list of answers before the exam started. When the test ended, the list matched the two question papers of eco nomics and organizations of commerce and management that students were assessed for on August 28. In all, of the 35 questions, 25 (of one mark each) matched word by word.

“We have not been giving out the answers before the exams. But there are merely three chapters and when we give practice tests, it is natural that some questions will be the same. What can we ask in the limited portion? Also, in most exams, it is obvious that some questions will be the same from the previous two years' papers,“ said principal Deepa Sharma.

Most students were seen walking out of the exam hall in about ten minutes, for most of them knew the answers. “Some teachers had given out a photocopy of expected questions with a list of answers below and we didn't even have to think before answering the paper,“ said an elated student.

Janseva Samiti founded this college with the motto of “women's empowerment“ in 1968. Currently , it is one of the largest colleges affiliated to the SNDT University . The allgirls college has 46 divisions with a total student population of approximately 8,000 students.

Many others claimed that teaching was very poor and most teachers never came to class. “The form 17, which has to be submitted to the board for registering for the class XII board examination is sold for close to Rs 2,500 to Rs 3,000, whereas it actually costs about Rs 150,“ claimed another student.

Source | Times of India | 1 September 2015