Education, Examination and NAS 21.
Prof. Avijit Pathak, retired Professor, JNU wrote an article in the Indian Express dated 20 th August which is an eye-opener even for the most optimistic people in the world. The title of the article was very interesting “CUET is not KBC”. Through this article, he suggested that VCs, teachers and students should come together and say no to MCQs in the entrance examination for universities, especially CUET(PG). He cites the example of JNU VC, Professor Shantishree Dhulipudi Pandit`s discomfort which she expressed while speaking at an idea exchange with Indian Express. When Professor Pathak says that CUET is not KBC, he means that the entrance to colleges and universities should not be based on one correct answer out of four or five options by mostly ruling out the wrong answers. I wrote in my earlier articles also that MCQs are not good options in assessing the understanding level of different concepts and creativity. This is fine to be as objective as possible in your evaluation but M