Sir,

Education is meant for the all-round development of a person. But today the whole education system merely focuses on the quantitative aspect of the students whereas their qualities somewhere seem to die under the burden of the dreams, interests, and ego of the parents and teachers.

In the present education system, teachers instead of assisting learning, spend most of their time accessing learning.

Today instead of enabling and equipping students to learn, schools have taken on the function of examining and screening out on the basis of those examination.

One of the major problems with the Indian education system, as it stands now, is the way examinations are being conducted. It has remained unchanged for so many years. At a time the examination is really helpful to know where an individual stands but also sometimes it becomes stressful because today the mindset of the people is that the students who score good marks are brilliant and successful in life but unfortunately the reality is different.

Nowadays scoring more and more marks has become the only aim of students and they have forgot the essence of education in real terms. They are forced to take test that shows only their retention power and not their actual capacity or knowledge. This is wrong because if we look at the entire education and examination system then we will see that there is no place for students to judge their performance and the impact is stressful.

Also, the faulty examination system is forcing many students to committ suicide and this  incident is growing rapidly every year and it has been found that India is one of the top countries in the world when it comes to students suicide.

In my opinion the ultimate goal is to encourage and to foster the students to gain knowledge not marks. Inspite of taking education as burden they should enjoy what they are studying.  So, at last I would like to conclude by saying, “Strive to be a success but rather to be of value”

Yours Truly,

Rashmita,

Student of Communicative English with Media Studies, Patna Women’s College

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