With the aim of creating strong strategies and roadmaps to make school examinations less stressful, the Northwest Accreditation Commission, USA (NWAC) hosted a conference titled De-stressing Examination organised by Council of Boards of School Education in India (COBSE) last week. The conference was inaugurated by former UGC Chairman Professor Ved Prakash. The event gave special focus on De-Stressing Examination on the lines of Draft National Education Policy 2019.
Director General of National Testing Agency (NTA) Vineet Joshi also attended the conference and spoke about the importance of coordination among all the boards and NTA, to enable proper verification of students at the application stage of exams conducted by NTA.
Dr Sanyam Bhardwaj, Controller of Examinations, CBSE gave a detailed presentation on the way CBSE is bringing about a change in the evaluation and examination process to reduce the stress.
“The biggest challenge in front of educators today is to come up with a curriculum that has a futuristic orientation. The education boards do not only have the responsibility of certifying students, but they also have the responsibility to prepare the children for tomorrow’s world. Students must not be educated on age-old patterns rather they should be made future-ready,” Ved Prakash said on the occasion.