‘CUET should not weaken school education’
Many educationists believe that if the pattern of CUET is similar to other entrance exams like JEE, NEET in the country, then the students’ attention may be distracted from schooling. Prof Dinesh Singh, former Vice Chancellor of Delhi University says, “Under the National Policy on Education (NEP), common entrance is a good policy, but if the test is made like the rest of the common entrance test, then it can weaken our school education.” . For example IIT entrance exam. No body has considered that students preparing for it are unable to concentrate in school studies and exams. They do not get real knowledge. This entrance is constantly killing creativity. There is no relation between IIT entrance performance and performance in IIT.
Professor Singh says, it is very important to pay attention to how the questions will be asked in CUET, whether the child’s ability and his aptitude will be ascertained. Also, one should not go for specialization now. These students are not at this stage yet. The rational thinking of the child should be checked, the general knowledge of creative way should be tested. I have not seen this in the number of common tests in India.
‘Paper setters will have to pay special attention’
JS Rajput, former director, National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), says, CUET is a very good step. According to which admissions were taking place in DU at 100% cutoff, according to that it was very important. But the paper should be designed in such a way that the critical thinking of the students is checked, and not they qualify the entrance exam only by technical. For this, the training of those who set the paper is also necessary.
He says, it should have been other entrances including IIT. NCERT books were also talked about for IIT entrance exam but coaching still continued. But if the pressure of the society remains and the paper makers discuss it, then a solution can be found and the trend of coaching is reduced, for this it is also necessary that the government schools should have the right number of good teachers. Along with this, it is also necessary to get the thinking of unnecessary coaching out of the mind of the parents.
‘CUET will not be like IIT entrance’
However, UGC chairperson Prof M Jagadesh Kumar says that CUET is not going to be like IIT or other entrance exams. The team of experts will pay close attention to balancing the difficulty level of questions in CUET, he says. The entrance will be on the NCERT syllabus of class 12th which is taught across the country and our experts are also noticing that there is some difference between the syllabus of some state board and its syllabus.
In the entrance, questions are being asked from the students on their domain subject studied in class 12th. Their General Knowledge, Mental Ability, Reasoning Ability, Analytical Reasoning will be tested in the General Test. Also, lakhs of students give entrance for 16,000 seats in IITs, while there are around 1.2 lakh seats in CUET.
Source: navbharattimes.indiatimes.com
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