Coimbatore, Feb 28: After months of training, Plus-two students step into the examination halls today. The school here has adopted different strategies to prepare the students face the final test. A school in R S Puram had offered personality development courses to its students.
“The students need a break from the monotony of examinations and studies. In plus two, they face pressure from all sides and we believe that personality development courses motivate and prepare them better,” principal of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (BVB) Kumidhini Periyasamy. Experts from HR companies too addressed the students.
The students were taught on the importance of highlighting valid points and trained to present the examination paper in a better way.
A government school teacher said that the teachers have been making regular efforts to train them during holidays in the evenings. “Every year, we strive to achieve cent percent success rate and hence train the students in the best possible ways,” the teacher added.
A Matric student says: “We had regular coaching classes in school. And, since my sister studies in the Corporation School, the system there varies and I pass on the tips and coaching to her.”
Similarly, another present residing at Ganapathy commented that his son was being helped out by another parent, whose son was studying, at a Matriculation school.
Some schools went on a rigorous coaching, where classes were conducted in morning and evening, which could not be congenial to the students’ health, a school principal said and added that there should be some balance.An official in the education department said that all the schools were involved in training their students in their own method.
33,848 appear
According to the Chief Education Officer (CEO) S Karmegam, 33,848 students will appear for their Plus-two examinations in 302 schools in the district on Thursday. A total of 14,947 boys and 18,901 girls be appearing for the examinations to be held at 85 centers between 10 am and 1 pm.
A total of 16,006 students would write their exams in city. Over 2,000 staff was deputed for duty including 100 peoples for the special flying squads to check malpractice during examination. Those who include in malpractice would be disqualified from appearing for exams for three years.
The examinations would end on March 21. Most important, candidates arriving after the lapse of the first 15 minutes to the examination hall neither would nor admitted, a release from the Department of Government of Examination said.
The SSLC, Matric and Anglo-Indian examinations will be held from
March 21 to April 5, in which 53,100 students will appear.