Not only at the elementary level, certain fundamental changes have been brought about in the system of education. One of those is the change in examination and Evaluation pattern. In 2009 the Government instructed all the universities affiliated to and recognised by it to switch over to the systems of semester/trimester gradation policy to emphasise internal assessment and introduce interdisciplinary course credit based approach in deciding the course pattern, subject combination and method of evaluation. Obviously, all these changes are for the sake of commercialisation, rather than for bringing uniformity in the education market for the benefit of investors.
The gradation system is required for bringing uniformity in the process of evaluation of different school boards and universities spread all over the country in order to create a uniform education market to facilitate commercialisation of education and private investment and to ensure the easier mobility of students from one institution to other. For greater inter-state mobility of the educational consumers, the on line admission system is also being introduced so that from one corner of the country anyone can chose an institution in any part of the country.
The semester system divided the educational course into small modules or packages. In the concept of secular, scientific and democratic education it has been considered very important to study in a comprehensive and holistic manner. Even in a subject, one topic is connected with the other. So it is considered very important that different chapters are studied part by part.
Earlier the matriculation examination covered the total course of 1Xth and X1th and Xth standard. The Higher secondary examination covered the course of X1th and X11th standard and BA/B Sc part one covered two years of course study. In semester system, when the course is divided into small packages or modules of six or four months, after examination of each semester the course of that semester will be dropped. Students may forget whatever they learnt in earlier semesters and never approach the course in a holistic manner. It will be easier for procuring more marks and higher grades but learning will suffer very seriously. Neither a student gets the minimum time to make adjustments with a new subject nor he gets minimum time to study. This may be at best viable in certain job oriented courses, but for science, humanities, medical or applied science courses this approach is very detrimental to a thorough and comprehensive learning.
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