Got rid of practical examinations.

It feels great to know that I have finally given the last lab exam that I have to. (I am not interested in studying further and i really dont think there is a chance of a change in our last semester syllabus now.) So finally i dont have to look at programs just for the sake of an exam and learn something practical for the same reason. Only i know the pain of having to managed a totally MS .net lab. It was like a totally foreign land in which i made myself feel at home by designing console applications in Notepad insted of making ASP.net pages or web services in the dreaded MS VS.net thingy. God! good riddance. Well so now i just have to write 5 more university exams (practically making it 15 more hours). As i think i can manage Distributed Comp. Sys. and Web Services it boils down to 3 really boring crappy ones. Data Warehousing, Cryptography and Linux Kernel Internals are subjects that would surely interest me practically but asking me to write an exam in them is a ttally different thing. Personally i dint really dig writing exams (i guess there r ppl out there who do dig it actually and thus the system exists.) Well this education system really needs a change.

Form what i was able to make out at a recent posting in the Chennai Linux Users Group it seems the British corrupted our rich educational system in order to detiriorate our culture as a whole. And from what i can make of it they were really successful.

Gosh something really needs to be done for this system. Right now all that our exams are able to test are memory retention of a person. (besides possibly story building skills for some examiners.)

Ankit Malhotra
(The BATFAN)