Exams you cannot fail

Maharashtra is experimenting with not failing students from class 1 to class 8. Grading without failing anyone is a good idea. Grading is a good judge of the student's expertise in a certain area of study. Moreover awarding students for doing well in a subject is a much better idea than punishing some one who did not do so well.

Not failing students allow them to have an opportunity to learning for 8 years of their life. Very rarely do students who are thrown out of school, because of repeatedly failing, go back to school. School dropouts later become social problems. Of course this means the teachers have to be extra good to motivate students to learn. Even if there are no great teachers this is a better system.

Recently came across the idea of "money for getting good grades". Its an awesome idea and motivates like nothing else. Pythagorus will not like it because he was of the line of thought that it was demeaning to seek wealth or for that matter anything in learning. You study because you are he might say. But a lot of children and grown up people think that studying improves a person's economic standing. This is a myth. Marie curie for most part of her studying life lived an impoverished life and got sick time and again because of inappropriate lodgings. Emmy Noether lost her job because of Nazis and in general academicians are not rich and their families suffer financially. Hindus believe two women cannot get along and hence the goddess of learning (Saraswati) and the goddess of wealth (Laxmi) will not reside in the same house.

But some how studying is a good thing. A learned person is a better person.