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Kolkata, March 27: Students of Class III, V and VIII of West Bengal’s government run schools fared poorly as per the State Learning Report, which was prepared by National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) and was released on March 26, Monday. A senior NCERT official said that the results were based on a test conducted for students. Nearly 30,000 students from Bengal’s 22 district took the examination. A questionnaire was also given to the teachers.
Only 71 per cent of Class III students could answer the mathematics and environmental science (EVS) questions accurately, while in languages subject, it was just 75 per cent who could answer. Gradually, it was observed that higher the classes, more dismal was the performance. Only 48 per cent students of Class V answered the mathematics questions correctly, followed by 54 per cent in EVS and 56 per cent in languages. Students of Class VIII performed the worst, with only 38 per cent students answering social science questions correctly. It was followed by 39 per cent in mathematics, 41 per cent in science and 55 per cent in languages. Another shocking revelation which the survey pointed is that only 47 per cent teachers in the state fully understood the curricular goals.
The survey, which paints a dismal picture of the students of Bengal also reported that students from Gujarat, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Odisha are way better than their counterparts of Class VIII. In Karnataka, at least 63 per cent students answered language questions correctly followed by 51 per cent in mathematics. While 53 per cent answered science questions correctly, only 51 per cent succeeded in social science. Students from Odisha performed quite well with a staggering 53 per cent students of Class VIII answering language questions correctly followed by 44 per cent in mathematics, 44 per cent in science and 41 per cent in social science. In Gujarat, 64 per cent students answered language, 47 per cent correctly answered mathematics, 52 per cent answered science and 54 per cent gave proper answers to social science questions.
After observing the data of other states, syllabus revamp committee chairman Aveek Mazumdar said that the poor state of education in Bengal which was determined by the NCERT question papers, didn’t make sense since questions which were given out to the students were not similar to West Bengal Board of Secondary Education framed curriculum. Mazumdar added that if once looks at the Utkarsha Abhijan which is Bengal’s own achievement survey, the result which one sees is somehow opposite. Refusing to acknowledge that Bengal students were poor in studies, Mazumdar also said that teachers were not to be blamed for not knowing the curriculum as 27 per cent of teachers are overloaded with work which is way less as compared to the figures in Tamil Nadu and Gujarat which were a mere 5 per cent and 12 per cent respectively.
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