Exams Are Like Festivals, Celebrate Them

The video of a senior official of the Delhi education department has raised the stress over exams. But with various initiatives by the centre to help students in pandemic times, exams can be faced with grit

- Devender Singh Aswal

A video of Delhi government’s Director, Education addressing school students and telling them to “attempt every question even if it means just copying out the question again” has raised eyebrows and become a subject of public disdain. Later, on being queried, a senior member of the education department clarified that the official’s statement should not be “misinterpreted” and that it was part of an attempt to encourage students in “a very bad year” as many had lost out on their writing practice and it was his way of telling them, “don’t be disheartened, don’t worry about the CBSE or anyone else, just write”

No clarification can justify the statement which was, in the first place, negative, immoral and discouraging for teachers who made Herculean efforts to complete the syllabus and also for hardworking students, who, despite the lockdown, used all available digital tools to study. Albeit the year-long lockdown has been a matter of deep worry for one and all, especially for students, parents, teachers, administrators and law-makers.