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Educational Measurement and Evaluation

Notes

What are the objectives of semester system ?

The semester system allows greater interaction with teachers and the students will be more
focussed on preparing throughout the year.
Self Assessment

1. Fill in the blanks :
(i) The examinations are conducting only once a year called ______ examination.
(ii) Annual system cover more ______ and compels the student to remember all this till the
end of the year.
(iii) The chief merit of ______ system is that no student is declosed to be failed in it.
(iv) The students attend the classes in the semester system involve them selves in the studies
______.
(v) Semester System allows greater ______ with teachers and students will be more focussed
on preparing throughout the year.

21.9 Summary
• External examinations are also conducted on semester or annual basis. But the aim of these
examinations are to promote the students from lower classes to higher classes and award
them certificates, diplomas or degrees. In our country different institutions follow different
systems of examination and both the systems have their own merits and demerits.
• The scholars who advocate internal and continuous evaluation, anticipate the following
merits :
(i) The students shall remain regular in their studies in the internal and continuous evaluation,
and they will emphasis on understanding in place of learning by rote.
(ii) The teachers will correctly evaluate the student’s achievements in internal and continuous
evaluation, they will be able to know about their progress and on that basis of it they will
be able to guide them properly.
• Radhakrishnan Commission (1948-49) gave highest priority to the improvement of
examinations in the field of higher education. It stated in clear words — If we have to give
only one suggestion as regards improvement in higher education, it would be improvement
of the examination. The commission was of the opinion that all other improvements.
• Generally, a session of a class in our country is of one year duration and the examination is
conducted at its end. Some universities divide the session into two sessions of six months
each, and conduct the examinations at the end of each six months session. Thus, a three-year
degree course is divided into six equal sessions, and two-year postgraduate course is divided
into four sessions. Such a system is called semester system. In this system, a student failing
in one subject in one semester is not declared to be failed.
• This system has proved effective to some degrees in the field of higher education. This
system has the following merits :
(i) The chief merit of this system is that no student (examinee) is declared to be failed in it.
A whole year is not lost for the failure candidate to appear again at the examination, and
there comes a difference of only six months if such incident occurs in the final semester.
It eradicates stagnation in the field of education.
(ii) The second merit of this system is that the study work goes on in the summer vacations.
The teaching of those students continues in the summer vacations who have failed in a
subject in the previous semesters.

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