They want Centre to set up facility which would help students improve their marks
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Chennai: Academicians have urged the Centre to set up a National Testing Facility (NTF) on the lines of US-based Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) which would conduct exams all round the year and help students improve their scores.
Advocating the need for NTF, S. Vaidhyasubamaniam, dean (planning and development), Sastra University, said every institution, government and private conduct entrance tests on their own, due to which students are made to take multiple tests.
“The NTF must conduct tests thrice a year and over a period of time on a round the year basis. This shall provide students the opportunity to better their scores and the new educational policy must include NTF and plus-two scores in equal proportion to arrive at a combined score,” he said.
Vaidhyasubamaniam said this combined score should be the only mandated requirement for admission to any professional college or deemed university or centrally funded technical institutions. This would reduce the multiplicity of entrance exams and also desist institutions from building revenue models out of entrance exams.
“The country should move towards NTF as we already have multiple tests in the country, for example we have two joint entrance exams —JEE (main) and JEE (advanced), besides several other institutes too conduct such tests,” said ex-deputy director and professor emeritus at IIT-M’s ocean engineering department Prof V.G. Idichandy said.
He added that NTF would bring down the multiplicity of tests by conducting a single exam, which would benefit students.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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