Exams are necessary but are it really justified to conduct the examination in such a Pandemic where the whole world is encountering such intricacies.

Being a student Nishit Sangwan keeps his point of view. Let’s have a quick read of what he has to say! 

He says that it is the life of the students that matters the most and not the exams and their careers. Hence, holding the exams amid the pandemic should never be the right choice. The education department should also come out with a proposal to admit the students based on their internal assessment grades for various further courses and start the online classes at the earliest. 

What is the logic behind this? Keeping the health of the students in mind, why shouldn’t the decision be taken to cancel the final year exams in totality. There is one certainty: the pandemic is changing universities’ relationship with technology. Coronavirus is forcing things like online learning to happen in a completely unprecedented way, says Nishit. “That will likely be a permanent change, but anybody who tells you with great certainty what’s going to happen is being overconfident.” 

What has happened is that half the year has been lost and we don’t know how long this pandemic will continue. Till such time there is a pandemic, there should be no exams and holding online examinations will be “extremely discriminatory” because in a lot of places in India, in remote areas, there is no facility for online examinations and the poor will be discriminated against, he said. Thrusting these decisions on poor students is very poor management of education, he said.