Editorial
2013 SSC results
Reflects success of new policies
It is extremely heartening to see that the results of this year's secondary school certificate exams have surpassed previous performances on all counts, which include the madrasa and vocational boards as well. From the total number of successful candidates to the number of candidates getting GPA-5 to the number of schools with a hundred percent pass, this year's performance has been most inspiring.
For this admirable performance congratulations are in order, particularly to the candidates who had to weather a spate of hartals and rescheduled exam dates, which must have been most off putting to them.
We feel too that a good deal of the credit for the commendable results is due to the dynamic changes brought about in the system like the introduction of junior certificate exams a few years ago, which students have to take in class-VII. This year's SSC candidates were the first batch to take the JSC exams in 2010, and the benefit of that has been demonstrated in this year's SSC results. And introduction of creative question method and mode of conduct of classes with special emphasis on mathematics and English have helped students shed the practice of learning their lessons by rote instead of internalising them. It is however, important to keep in mind that quality is as important as quantity, and we hope that in future the system would be able to inculcate in students the ability to think creatively.
We also note with satisfaction that the incidents of students adopting unfair means in the exams have been reduced. We hope it would be brought down to zero eventually.
While the successful candidates can justly rejoice at the results, for the administrators there is need to ponder at the fact that ten percent failure in terms of numbers is quite considerable. What would be their fate? The other thing that has vexed in the past the successful SSC candidates, which is more than a million this year, is the scope for admission into the reputed colleges. Regrettably, given the inadequate number of colleges, many successful candidates with good results may not find entry into the institutions of their choice.
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