Monday, 27 July 2026

Examination system: not tinkering but scrapping is the way forward

The real solution to the students' suicides is not in making their examination system more perfect by stopping question paper leaks, malpractices in the examination hall, or corruption in the evaluation and publishing of mark sheets but in the abolition of the examination system itself.

It is flawed at its core because evaluating all students using a single standard is absurd. A fish cannot be evaluated by its ability to climb a tree. The Western educationist who had invented it himself rejected it. Students can be employed by companies not based on any certificate from boards/universities but on aptitude tests and then trained according to job requirements. This would eliminate the institutionalized tool of falsehood that our education has turned into by increasing the control by government, which itself lacks true education, and money-making ventures for businessmen without any knowledge of true education.



Solution to the "students suicide epidemic" - Satkiran article, 27 Jul 2025