Marksheet is mental pressure sheet, NEP to remove this pressure: Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that in the current education scenario mark sheet becomes like a mental pressure sheet. Removing this stress from education is one of the main objectives of the National Education Policy (NEP).

He was speaking at a two-day conclave on 'School Education in 21st Century' under the new National Education policy 2020.

Marksheet-driven education is dominating in place of learning-driven education in our country, he said. Marksheet has now become like a mental pressure sheet. Removing this stress from education is one of the main objectives of the NEP. The examination should be such that it does not put unnecessary pressure on students. Now, the effort is that students should not be evaluated by just one examination, but based on various aspects of student development like self-assessment, peer-to-peer assessment.

Instead of a mark sheet, the NEP proposes a holistic report card which will be a detailed sheet of unique potential, aptitude, attitude, talent, skills, efficiency, competency, and possibilities of the students, the Prime Minister said.

He added that a new national Assessment Center ‘Parakh’ will also be established for the overall improvement of the evaluation system. The NEP has been formulated in such a way that the syllabus can be reduced and focused on fundamental things. A national curriculum framework will be developed to make learning integrated and interdisciplinary, fun-based, and complete experience.

Stressing that twenty-first-century skills are critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, curiosity and communication, the Prime Minister said that students should learn coding, understand Artificial Intelligence, join the Internet of Things, cloud computing, data science and robotics.

NEP gives students options to choose various subjects and also the freedom to change their subjects, he said.

The Prime Minister said that the NEP is a result of hard work of people from every region, every sector and every language in the last three-four years.

“Under the NEP, the development of foundational literacy and numeracy will be taken as a national mission. The child should go ahead and read to learn, for that it is necessary that in the beginning, he should learn to read. It must be ensured that every child who crosses the third grade can easily read 30 to 35 words in a minute,” he added.

Modi said that the new mantra for the new-age learning is engage, explore, experience, express and excel..