If I Were An Examiner

"Oh God don't put me into a test" I am a student as yet and not an examiner. I have, anyhow, a great grudge against examiners, because they do not do any justice to students at all. It happens generally that an examiner does not give good marks to those students, whose answers contain ideas differing from those of the examiner himself. I would give full credit to those students who have expressed their ideas well, even if their ideas totally differ from my own.

Students in our school and colleges do not try to read the text-books at all. They mug up whatever is written in the cheap help-books and guides. The result is that the answers of many students are just the same, with no originality at all. I would try to discourage this trend of the students in the capacity of an examiner. It does not mean that I would let a student fail in the examination, because of his lack of originality. I personally believe that any student who has spent a year studying in a class, in a school or college, should not be punished to spend another year in the same class. However, a student, who has written nothing from himself, but has simply put down whatever he has crammed up from the cheap help-books or guides deserves nothing better than simply the pass marks. Hence, I would place such a student only in the 3rd class. But those students who express their own original ideas would be placed in the 2nd or 1st class, according to their true merit.

It is generally said that most of the examiners do not read every word of an answer, written by the students. Some of them read only the first two lines and then jump over to the last two lines. Some of them read-only a line here and a line there and assign marks according to the impression formed by them. But an examiner cannot form an exact impression of the ability of the student unless he reads every word written by him in all his answers. It is true that marking strictly in this way, requires a lot of time, but it is the only way of doing justice to a student, whose answer book is being marked. As an examiner, I would not consider at all how much time is being spent by me in marking an answer-book, but how far I am doing justice to the efforts put in by an examinee. "

I would also not consider how much payment is to be made to the examiner per answer-book. So I would not try to spend time marking an answer book according to the payment made for it. For me, the only consideration would be to do my duty well as an examiner and try to be as fair and just to every examinee as possible.

In the end, I can say that I would be a very lenient examiner as far as the pass marks are concerned, but I would award good marks or high grades to only those students. Who really deserves it. I am sure that no student would have any complaint against my standard of marking if I were an examiner. 

It has also come to light that some examiners show favoritism to the sons and daughters of their senior officers "and give them extra marks when they are approached for it. In our country, some examiners also give extra marks on payment of money also. But I would be above all such malpractices. If I were an examiner, I would, in fact, be an ideal examiner, above approach and above reproach, fair to all, but unfair to none,