A Case Study on Odisha's intermediate education and it's result analysis system.

If we follow the +2 board examination result of CHSE, Odisha in 2019, the following figures are showed up.

1- +2 Science - 76.98% passed.

2- +2 Arts - 68.79% passed.

3- +2 Commerce - 76.91% passed.

Now, in the Commerce stream, there were only 26,284 students enrolled and sat for the examination in Odisha. At the same time, only 41 students scored more than 90% in CHSE, result.

If we simply compare it to the results of other states, it's absolutely disastrous. Think about the cut off marks in reputed universities like DU. In 2019, the cutoff of DU has reached from 99% to 97% by now. It will maximumly stoop to 96% by the end of admission. This makes almost no Odia student (the student who appeared intermediate examination from CHSE, Odisha board), even eligible for a decent seat in DU!

Is this justified for Odisha board students?

Are the students from Odisha all dumb to score low marks? Or we are hugging to the age-old marking system to stake students career into uncertainty!

The process of copy checking is still ambiguous and the lecturers are very much strict while giving marks. Last year one of my students scored only 55 out of hundred in English. He requested a photocopy copy of the answer sheet. His grammar section was 99% correct and he attended the long questions sincerely. But for each ten mark question was given 2 or 3 marks. This is the case of literature where no claim could be done. Hence his percentage went down to just 80% while he deserves more than 85%. Now, who to blame here?

Why can't we think the students are just intermediate students, not some Ph.D. scholar or UPSC aspirants who need to write everything under the sun. While CBSE students are scoring as high as 99% in literature subjects like Odia, English, Hindi, etc, Odisha board students are hardly scoring 70% in those subjects. How can they score good percentage then?

People say mark doesn't matter, knowledge does matter. But seeing the way the education system is working in India, this saying has lost its validation. Nowadays, a good percentage can open the gate for a good university or college. Sadly Odia education authorities and teachers are not understanding this.

In this way, we will further lag behind from the pace, the national education race is going.

Then what are the possible solution? 

1. A revival of syllabus and teaching techniques.
2. Liberalization of marking system within limit and proper training.
3. Sectional questions to come with a word limit and specific guidelines.
4. Non Stream subjects or literature subjects are to be made extra credential. It means only stream subjects are to be counted for percentage.

We can think of hundreds of solution, but nothing works until and unless we open our eyes and look out the situation and development around us. It's important that we shift our education system into a progressive and apt system for twenty-first century. 

Written by- Jyotipuspa Das 

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