Education standards in Kerala (lack thereof)

Marks Jehad, a thread on Twitter explaining the sorry state of education in Kerala. You can read it on Twitter here. 

1. Prof Rakesh Pandey says Kerala students are dominating DU because anyone can get 100% marks in Kerala Board. This is true. After II Class in Eng Hons from Hansraj, DU, I easily topped MA Eng in Kerala as Kerala standards were pathetic.

Kerala students are now dominating DU because anyone can get 100% marks in Kerala Board

Out of 206 students admitted under the unreserved category, more than 95% of them have studied from the Kerala state board

https://tfipost.com/2021/10/kerala-students-are-now-dominating-du-because-anyone-can-get-100-marks-in-kerala-board/

2. During PG, I partied 2 years, traveled, became a champion quizzer, never looked at the books, walked out of boring lectures and in the last month crammed 18 hours a day. Got First Class, topped college, topped uni in viva. Kerala syllabus was a joke.

3. At least in uni, there was a semblance of standards. In schools, Kerala Board is beyond pathetic. I studied ICSE. Anyone who studied it knows how tough it is. It's equal to British O Level. Compared to it, CBSE was a joke. Compared with CBSE, Kerala Board was a joke.

4. During holidays I used to visit my cousins in Kerala. Looking at their books I used to be filled with a mix of amusement and envy. My cousin's Class X books were like pamphlets compared with our big fat Physics textbook from Britain, AC Bagchi's Biology and 2 huge math books.

5. Plus, we had 2 English exams, 2 Hindi exams, a fat Economics book, separate History, separate Geography, separate Civics textbook, Chemistry. God knows what else. In contrast, my cousins were studying in Class X what we used to study in Class VI. No wonder they were so happy.

6. I remember thinking, it wasn't fair. Here I was struggling with so many subjects and books and my cousins' entire Class X subject was equal to what we had completed 4 years ago. In some subjects, Kerala Class X students were studying the ICSE equivalent of Class III.

7. If DU allows Kerala students to flood into campuses in Delhi, it would be totally unfair on students from the rest of India who have way higher standards. This could result in competitive marking with perhaps Bihar Board chasing Kerala to the bottom of the barrel.

8. The greater danger is communist, Harmful and Ricebag students from Kerala will inject toxic ideologies and jehad into DU's campuses. There will be frequent hartals and campus violence.

 

9. The truth is, there is absolutely no teaching in Kerala colleges due to frequent strikes by students unions. DU is set to follow suit if it admits Kerala students in large numbers.

10. At any rate, why are Kerala youth coming to DU? What happened to their wonderful, 100% literate state with Harvard-beating education? Or have they just realised they have turned Kerala into another Bengal - a post communist dystopian nightmare?

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