Source – The Times Of India
Several schools in the city have taken a number of steps including giving more importance to one-on-one viva voce – to ensure students cannot make use of unfair means while writing their online exams .The steps , they said were necessary after they found many students had resorted to cheating , sometimes even helped by parents , during their first foray in online examinations .Most schools in Kolkata are now designing their exam in such a way that each child goes through one –on –one viva ,which will have at least 50% weightage . Question patterns too are changing so that there will be several questions that will be application based rather than memory based , so that a pupil will apply his / her logic and understanding to arrive the answer. No two such answers would be the same , and how each pupil arrives at the answer will decide their score .Since , there has been a paradigm shift in teaching-learning in the past 10 months , it is natural that an exam pattern rethink had become imperative .
