Move to end useless competition among students

CHENNAI: The state government decided to adopt the CBSE’s system of Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation as currently schools in Tamil Nadu does not take into account the child’s learning style, or have diversity in time-frame, or a testing mechanism that can accommodate and reflect the child’s learning capacity.“The question papers of the Board Examination of Classes X and XII are predictable and students are not able to move beyond the text.They also undergo a great deal of stress and strain, and the fear of failure leads to many tragic consequences,” a government order said.Pointing out that the CBSE and neighbouring Karnataka and Kerala States have already moved on to the CCE concept, School Education Secretary D Sabitha said that in Tamil Nadu too there was an urgent need to make evaluation more continuous and comprehensive in consonance with the Right To Education Act.Besides, the stress level of the students should be reduced as mandated in the National Curriculum Framework of 2005, she added.Consequently, as suggested by the NCERT, schools award grades on a nine-point scale after a mark-based assessment in scholastic areas.This would “eliminate unnecessary competition among students and nullify the subjectivity of examiners.” Schools in Tamil Nadu will also follow a tri-semester pattern – June to September, October to December and January to April.