In Engineering many new methods of evaluation are being implemented to test the knowledge and understanding of the students in a given subject. Student interest may not be equal in all subjects and in the worst case a given student has no aptitude and understanding capability in a particular subjects(ex.mathematics). But a student may have good understanding in all other subjects.
The great academicians are trying to do justice to the students by giving grace marks to students in one subject, if a student has passed in all remaining subjects. The grace marks will be deducted from the other subjects and the final total of the student remains the same.
The above scheme of grace marks can be further extended in such a way that, the students have to score only the total marks in all the subjects combined without worrying about the score in individual subjects. The minimum marks that is required can be further reduced or eliminated and the total score of passing should be increased.
If for example in the the minimum marks is 35 for passing and there are 8 theory exams then in the changed system of evaluation, the total marks for passing can be changed from 210 ( 210 = 6 x 35) to any higher value. If the student is weak in subject then he has put more than extra effort to score in other subjects in which he as better understanding capabilities.
This type of evaluation will help the students to excel in the examinations and they might like the courses. The job of the teachers is to make the student to learn on their own and experiment and excel without making them to learn subjects in which they are never good at. We should allow Tendulkars to be good in cricket then work harder in aeronautics which is the domain Abdul Kalams.
The clubbing of subjects should be done judiciously and there should be continuity of subjects throughout the course be it 3years or 4years.
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