The country's minister in charge of higher education has asked 15 universities which will be established in future to formulate a common admission test akin to the SAT in the United States, according to a government statement.
The common examination would later be put in to the system by 25 other federally supported universities as well, reported the Business Standard, a newspaper.The higher-education budget is increased by an unprecedented 40 percent, to $3.1-billion, for 2009-10.
Every Indian university currently admits students based on their marks on a high-school-graduation exam and, occasionally, a personal interview. As a result, a student from, say, the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh who applies to the Universities of Delhi and of Bombay must visit both distant cities and be judged by different standards at both institutions and he has to suffer a lot .
In addition, too much tests taken for high-school-graduation in India makes it extremely difficult to gauge a student's relative abilities. For that reason, the higher-education minister, Kapil Sibal, has also announced plans to devise a common high-school-graduation test.
This is really good because there should be a centralised test rather than every university creating it's own exams
ReplyDeleteMr. Sibal is really reforming the education system which will help a lot of students who have to go through vigorous testing exams again and again.
ReplyDeletei think this may create problem because see, premier institutions have their own standards and if we are going to place everybody on the same platform it will not be a good option. some demarcating guidelines of course should be there so that standards can be maintained .i am not supporting discrimination but demarcation only which is necessary in order to sustain the standards of premier institutions or else the standards of all universities should be made equal
ReplyDeleteit is good for students like us who have to give exam everywhere to get admisssion to different universities.now it has become easier to get the admission .hats off to our education minister.
ReplyDeleteFirst Mr. Sibal allowed foreign universities to set up their campuses in India and now SAT like test is going to be organised by government.this will to lead globalisation of indian higher education and reset the standards of international level
ReplyDeleteI strongly support Government's step to change the scenario of admisssions as it will remove the hassles and will do away with the confusion in Quota system also upto some extent.
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