Himalayan News Service

Damak, February 10:

Students have said there is a need to hold preparatory classes for better SLC results.

A study, conducted in the schools of western Jhapa by an NGO Himali Rilek, showed that over 90 per cent students felt that there is a need to hold preparatory classes for good results. Over 600 students of one higher secondary and six secondary schools who will be appearing for the SLC this year were interviewed for the study.

Once the students clear their pre-SLC exams, they are left on their own. One 10th grader of Bani secondary school, Lakhanpur, said, “It would be much easier for us if the schools conducted preparatory classes after sent-up exams.”

Around 80 per cent of the students believed the presence of security persons at exam centres could have had a negative impact as “the presence of security personnel could create a pressure on them that could lead them to write wrong answers”. The study showed checks conducted by security persons frightened students.

A member of the NGO, Gopal Jhapali, said most students took cheating to be an accepted and “normal” part of the examinations citing courses being left incomplete and failure to understand class lessons as the reasons for cheating.

According to the study, 80 per cent of the students were taking tuitions from their schoolteachers.