Referring to the UP Board Examinations for Class 10th and 12th, to be conducted from February 7, where over 58 lakh students will be appearing for the examination, the Deputy Chief Minister of UP Dinesh Sharma on Monday advised students to not be afraid of the upcoming examinations and consider them to examine their own learning. In a message to all students to appear, he said “The class 10th board examination is the first milestone in a student’s life, while the class 12th board examination is the second one. Both these examinations decide the future, and hence they are extremely important.”
“Learning is a continuous process, and the aim of the examination is not to ascertain ‘pass’ or ‘fail’, but to know the extent of learning. Hence, the examinations should be welcomed, and not be afraid of,” he said.
He stressed on self-learning and time management to be the ingredients of achieving success.
He also stressed the book written by Prime Minister Narendra Modi ‘Exam Warriors’ and said “Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his book Exam Warriors had written that examinations should be taken as a festival. The way in which we celebrate various festivals, and welcome them, in the same way, we should also treat the examination. He had also said that if the examinations are faced as a warrior, then favorable results are inevitable.”
The Chief Minister, heading the Higher and Secondary Education, focussed on writing skills and reading skills to be inculcated in every child.
“For actual success, one should not indulge in using unfair means (during the examination), avoid rote learning and understand the subject matter holistically. This will induce confidence in you (students). To pass with good marks accurate learning should be done. The NCERT books are compendious in nature, and after studying them, there will be no need to study any other material,” he said.
“In order to make the examinations copying-free, CCTV cameras and voice recorders will be installed at the examination centers,” he added.