“Oh!! How I wish I could cancel these exams forever!!” – said Natasha in a grumpy, cranky and saddened voice. She hated to accept that the morning she is going to witness today would be unlike other mornings. It would be a day where everyone, would be having a similar expression ontheir face – which is “no expression at all”. Teachers visible hurriedly through the staffroom as if they will have to reach out with those papers and strings or else they would be failed from their responsibilities.
Classrooms suddenly looking grey and bespectacled with gloomy lights. Windows looking plain and sad with no exciting things to view. Water bottles and Bags leaving us to be in the corridors and our favorite watches and mobiles submitted on the supervisor’s desk.
This has been a common scenario with every exam because “Exams were always viewed or made to be viewed as a Burden”. Our today’s so-called Gen Zee would never learn to visualize things differently until we the Alphas teach them the technique of “Read – Learn – Unlearn and Relearn.” It may sound tricky but is so true and based on experiences. Exams need to be conveyed as a medium of practice and presentation and not a task of proving one’s mettle. When the approach towards exams is altered, there comes a betterrelaxed and calm mind, which can allow more capacity for learning, absorbing and growing with right perspectives. It does not mean that
such an attitude encourages being overconfident, or casual towards exams, instead it reinforces the faith about studying well and allowing oneself to be marked
accordingly.
Our encouragement should be to read their text book chapters in detail and not mark a shortcut to study. While reading their silent mind is learning and absorbing the text and its essence. They may forget what was read in a day or two which is a general human tendency, but refreshing the reading just 21 days prior to the exams allows the child to recollect what was read and then relearn it all over. The process works and allows children to remember what they have learnt not just temporarily but in a permanent way.
– Mrs Tanushrie Yogesh
Virkar, Admin