''Manage your time effectively to turn your dreams
into reality."
- Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam
Managing time is a personal
behaviour, person to person differs and varies of different age groups.
Students’ life at institutions, adults at institutions and at various work
places. I could recollect while working as a teacher what one of my colleagues
told. When we were discussing about time management.
The teacher gave me the
guidance, what I have to do. “I have to write, right from wake-up time till I
go to sleep, and account for outcome of my activities.” for about 30 days. The
guidance had been very helpful to know where I do spend more time, less time.
It has been a self-awareness and started my planning for my academic work at
school and personal work. When planning is done half of the work is over, I
believe so. One has to plan the work, work for the plan. In this write up I
wish to place the importance of teachers, parents, of course students follow
up.
Teachers
Role:
Students are to be guided on their study
habits. The students (at least from class 8) should be asked to carry out the
suggestions made in the introduction above (what I carried out), at least for 15
days. That would help them to plan for studies effectively. Lot of time is
available during the holidays. A separate schedule be prepared by students.
Parents endorsements are essential for the full proof, for every day. Without parents’
support and involvement, attaining the set in goals is very difficult. If
required a meeting may be organised at school for parents by the head of
institution. Students are to be guided properly to take up this work/ project,
in letter and spirit. These might be applicable for all subjects, not just
restricted to one subject. Teachers are requested to refer the marking scheme
prepared by subject experts. A magazine is available in CBSE office.
Guidelines
to prepare the students for exam:
· First and foremost, to complete the
whole syllabus what is prescribed for the examination well within the time
schedule as per institutional planning for the academic year.
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· To plan for chapter wise revision in
the class, questions are to be given for practice and be evaluated.
· To attend slow-learners, to pick-up
and their progress be noted.
· To give challenging questions and be
solved in classroom teaching.
· Students should not have fear to ask
doubts and they must be encouraged to ask, clarify their doubts then and there.
This will increase their confidence level.
· Teachers have to update and refer
CBSE site for model paper and do the revision. Nowadays competency-based
questions, case study questions, application question are being asked.
There
are conventional questions (stereotyped) in class 10th the question
paper, nearly about 15% to20 %, in geometry, (theorems) in rational numbers and
polynomials chapter. Sufficient practice be given
enabling students save time.
A quote from Vince Lombardi
“Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.”
· Note: There is certain percent of
questions other than textbooks. (Could be 12 to 15 %) It may vary for every year.
Students are to be informed this aspect. Latest blue print of question papers
is to be told in every subject).
· Many a times, I have been listening from
students, ‘the paper was lengthy and time was not sufficient to complete’
though they knew the solutions. I deeply, think over on this issue, where does
the problems lie.
Blueprint of
the question paper is given by the board with the distribution of marks chapter
wise also given. An example, class 10th – Mathematics, Board paper. CBSE. Marks
wise type of questions.
|
No. OF QUESTIONS
|
MARKS
|
TOTAL
|
|
20
|
1
|
20
|
|
5
|
2
|
10
|
|
6
|
3
|
18
|
|
3
|
4
|
12
|
|
4
|
5
|
20
|
|
|
TOTAL
|
80
|
Duration
of the examination is 3 hours (180 Minutes).
Let students
keep 10 minutes for revision, so you are left with 180 -10 = 170 minutes. Here
comes the time factor for 1 mark = 170/80 = 2.125 minutes (Approx. 2 minutes).
On some occasions, 3 or 4-mark questions may be easier than 1 or 2 marks. Since
students might have practiced more on such questions. Teachers will have to
give sufficient practice while doing revision.
The teachers
may give 1 mark question and ask the students to complete it within 2 minutes.
At the end of 2 minutes, students should be able to give the answer. Following
this method will help the teacher know how many have done correctly within the
stipulated time and how many couldn’t. This would help the teacher guide
students better. I would suggest this kind of practice for other questions too.
We are fully
aware that now-a-days, entrance exam is being conducted for different academic
courses. For example, in engineering Mathematics, 60 objective type questions
have to be answered in 60 minutes. This kind of practice may be taken up right
from class 8/9th. I would suggest, the teachers to solve the question prior to
sharing it with students, to gauge the time taken in solving it. Also, they
should convey to the students how the marking scheme works while evaluation the
answer scripts.
Each class
has different subjects. The type of question would differ based on the subject.
Hence depending on the subject, teachers have to modify the question paper for
revision. The intent of the revision tests is to make student comfortable with
the subject and confidently write exams. This way they can attain set goals
with good marks.
Few of the
best practices that a teacher should let know the students before the exams
are:
· It is not compulsory to answer the
questions in a sequential order, although the question number for each section
are to be noted down correctly in the answer paper while answering a question students
should complete all necessary working steps with respect to the marking scheme
prepared by subject experts.
CONCLUSION: I have made an effort to convey on
how far the teachers could think over, since for every problem there is a
solution. These are few suggestions, that I have followed throughout my
teaching career. This might not be an exhaustive list, there could be other ways
to follow as well. We are fully aware that a day has 24 hours. Shall we make
them as OURS.
(Courtesy:- https://www.sirtbhopal.ac.in/)
About the author:- Mr. K. Bhanumoorthy is a retired KVS Principal. He is an avid reader and mathematics communicator. You can contact him to :-bhanu_haresh@yahoo.co.in
