To Test or not to Test
Having studied in India all my life from nursery to my engineering, taking tests was something I had come to terms with. There were many life changing "Tests" I have given, right from the test that got me into my prestigious junior school at the age on 6, the daily test that were given by our literature teacher to make sure we knew our Shakespeare verbatim, to the life changing board exam of class 10 and 12 and finally the multiple entrance tests for engineering and management. I will not say I have ever been good at giving test and I have always done better when I had a face-to-face discussion. Hence it is understandable why I have done my utmost to forget those bad memories and maybe recurring nightmares. However with my son now going to school and the whole new discussion about Right to Education Act,2009 in India, have again bought the whole new debate on TEST system. Today I read an very interesting article on NYtimes Testing, the Chinese Way on how US planning to mov...