Some heartening news from home...
http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/28/stories/2006022818150100.htm
TN High court has struck down the governments ill-conceived attempt to abolish Entrance exams and just use the State Board marks for admissions to professional courses. The State Board exams, if any are a test of memory and recollection capabilities of the students and in no way identify students that can successfully compete in the academic rigor of a professional course. In addition to that seperating since large number of students get the same marks (read 100%), it would be a herculean task frought with pitfalls to rank them. Am happy to see that there is some authority that uses logic in arriving at judgements.
There will definitely be appeals and exploration of other ways of "rescuing" the students...but the government would do extremely well to stipulate one entrance exam for ALL admissions and improve the standard of that exam so students dont face the hassle of preparing for one exam after another.
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more news in todays papers.. the govt will hav to conduct the exams on May 13th and 14th
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