Open-book Examination: Your opinion please
Long long back, in the 1920s, Rabindranath Thakur was once the paper-setter in Bengali language and literature of the University of Calcutta. He allowed the examinees to open their text-books and answer the questions asked in that particular paper. That was, as per my knowledge, the first open-book examination in India.The experiment, unfortunately, was not accepted by the educationists and students at that time. But it was noted that the examinees could not score better marks in that particular paper. Many examinees, in fact, scored marks less than their expectation.
In 2020 and in 2021, Delhi University conducted open-book examinations (during the Covid pandemic). My daughter appeared in the second year (2020) and third year (2021) of Graduation at that time. She, and many of her friends, said that open-book examinations were not that easy. If an examinee doesn't have an idea about the particular question asked, he/she would find it very difficult to get the answer from the text-book and then frame the answer systematically. Further, in open-book examination, almost all examinees face acute time-problem. My daughter said that many of her friends could not get good marks in the open-book examination.
So, in my opinion, students should not feel elated in case of open-book examination.
Readers! What do you think about open-book examination? Do the students get advantages in this form of examination?
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