• Optional Proficiency Test under PTS with National Percentile Ranking in five subjects for Class X in June 2011.
• National Aptitude Test (NAT) replacing IIT – JEE and almost all other Class XII (Common Streams) tests from June 2013.
• Professional Streams after class XII will consider students’ grades along with NAT from Class XII with higher eligibility grades at Class XII for IIT admissions.
• National University Entrance Test (can be christened differently) by 2013 for admissions to UG courses; even for a correspondence degree.
• CBSE will make it mandatory for schools to have full fledged ICT facilities.
• ICT will take over most of the teacher functionalities.
• PTS and NAT will become online tests.
• Schooling with school will not be mandatory to take CCE and Optional Proficiency Test under PTS for Class X from year 2013(?)
Advantage Students & Government:
• Students will be routed through conceptual clarity in their studies.
• Tension free, interesting school with Kerala model Praveshanotsavam (Entrance Festival) on from the school opening day onwards
• Teachers are made accountable in the process and they too learn from the teaching learning process with students.
• Teacher will become just a facilitator only who too will learn with the student.
• Good teachers will be paid highly and deliver nicely just not for a school but for the entire country though ICT
• Addresses the scarcity of teachers
• Back door corporate entry into schooling through homeschooling & unschooling that solves the infrastructure issue to school 50% of our population under 20 years of age
Author can be contacted on his email: jeevankonikkara@gmail.com The views expressed are his personal.
