Vote & Quote: To ‘e’ or not to ‘e’
Wed, Sep 16, 2009
IIT Kharagpur saw its first mid-semester e-xamination conducted on a large scale when the students of Physics-1 course appeared in a digital adaptation of assessment.
In the wake of this reformation, The Scholars’ Avenue invites feedback from the freshers and reaction from the readers.
Feedback Poll
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Feel free to air your thoughts in the comment section below.
I say lectures first, then exams.
Thermo-Fluid Sciences by Prof S. Dash in the Mechanical Department has also been digitally evaluated for the last couple of years. All class tests, midsems, and endsems are e-xams, and you are only to write the appropriate equations in EES, thereby reducing the numerical calculations and the rote solving of equations that takes up most of the time in a regular exam.
Online exams save a lot of time and human effort in terms of correcting the papers..
Positives:
Mundane ones that we all know about like no human effort, lesser paperwork etc etc which is all great.
Negatives:
This means only objective solutions right ? Which is not great considering my personal experience that scoring in Objective exams inside IIT boils down to your cheating skills. However, you could have different sets and all that, but subjective papers allow for that creative input, however minuscule that might seem to be. If these can become subjective somehow, it will be awesome
There is a facility in the system to accept subjective answers(text answers) supplemented by tools for easy evaluation. But I think this is the start to a positive trend and hopefully the online testing mechanism will become as rigorous as the on-paper one.
Can anyone/scholsav explain the system itself? Not everyone is in 1st year…
Sounds very interesting.
I say abolish the exams altogether