Letter About our old and Worthless System of Examinations
Examination Hall, A.B.C. (City). September 05, 2019 The Editor, The Daily Dawn, Lahore. Dear Sir, The whole world is making progress but we are lagging behind. The faults lie win Our System of education. The disciplines taught to our students fall considerably shuff of the international standard. The more painful aspect of this system is the old, discard and worthless method of evaluation. The developed countries have adopted the modern methods of judging the abilities of their students but we follow the traditional techniques. Our system of examination needs a complete overhauling. Examination means the testing of the proficiency or knowledge of students for a qualification. For example, the qualification is getting the Secondary School Certificate. For this certificate, the knowledge of a student will be judged by a set procedure. If he is declared passed, he will be given the certificate, otherwise not. Our examination system is the worst of its type. It clearly gives the impression...