An objective JEE, compared to a subjective JEE, focuses on the end instead of both the means and the end, and will lead to a social phenomenon in Indian education, where the student community is raised by the system teaching them that it's OK to use any means to achieve the desired end. The fact that how the student arrived at the right answer is not evaluated or graded is detrimental to the students philosophical, analytical, strategic and logical mindset. As he grows up, he will be trained to think that there is only one solution to any problem in the world.
Previous batches who took subjective JEEs very well know instinctively that there are an infinite number of ways to solve a particular problem, that the problem can be redefined based on the solution, and the solution based on the problem. This mindset is a healthy basis for the development of any society if education and awareness are considered to be the pillars of a national foundation.
I now become aware that even though the quality of subjective JEEs falling with each successive year is not that big an issue compared to this change in test methodology. I had once heard someone say that every student complained about his educational institution, but I think I am right in saying that this recent change in JEE test pattern will be extremely detrimental to both the institutes and the students' collective psychology. In the next 15-20 years with batches graduating, getting PhDs and joining the same institutional system to teach students who they once were, the plane of the quality of IITs is going to be nose-down. The corporate world, be aware! The most you can trust the brand value of IITs is only for the next two or three years, when the last of the subjective JEE-takers leave the cyclical "IIT system".
Previous batches who took subjective JEEs very well know instinctively that there are an infinite number of ways to solve a particular problem, that the problem can be redefined based on the solution, and the solution based on the problem. This mindset is a healthy basis for the development of any society if education and awareness are considered to be the pillars of a national foundation.
I now become aware that even though the quality of subjective JEEs falling with each successive year is not that big an issue compared to this change in test methodology. I had once heard someone say that every student complained about his educational institution, but I think I am right in saying that this recent change in JEE test pattern will be extremely detrimental to both the institutes and the students' collective psychology. In the next 15-20 years with batches graduating, getting PhDs and joining the same institutional system to teach students who they once were, the plane of the quality of IITs is going to be nose-down. The corporate world, be aware! The most you can trust the brand value of IITs is only for the next two or three years, when the last of the subjective JEE-takers leave the cyclical "IIT system".
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ReplyDeleteWell, as long as the MCQs at the least have multiple possible correct answer choices, it makes sense.
That's an excellent observation! I never thought of that...Hmmm.
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