English question paper
I happened to come across an unsuccessful degree student who failed in the compulsory English paper (subject code 105) of the examination. I found the girl too weak to pass but what appalled me is that the said English question paper had no less than three printing mistakes, and when I asked the girl if these mistakes were pointed out and rectified by the invigilating teacher in the examination hall she answered in the negative. She even could not think of any mistake creeping in the question paper.
It makes me painfully disturbed that teaching of English from elementary to secondary levels is not pursued with the very objective that the students must be taught basics of how a sentence is framed with proper placement of subject, verb, complementary and predicate/object and following the rules of Tenses and the use of the verb-to-be according to the time. Many innovative ideas have been pushed in many times as tests and trials to make the students learn English comprehensively and cheers and applauses have been showered, but everything seems to have gone in vain.
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