CHENNAI: The school education department is conducting weekly online quiz every Saturday to spur Class X students to take part in classroom discussions, the basic quiz is aimed at bridging the gap in learning for government school students who have been learning through Kalvi TV video lessons in the past 18 months.
The quiz is designed based on the learning outcomes of Class IX and X lessons. A quiz is conducted for 90 minutes and students have to attend 10 objective type questions from each of the five subjects at a hi-tech lab in high and higher secondary schools.
After each quiz, the department sends questions with correct answers for classroom discussions.
"The questions will not be directly from textbooks and the performance will not be counted for any evaluation. The main purpose is to initiate classroom discussions as these children were away from schools for a long time," an official from the school education department said.
The department is planning to conduct eight quizzes, and so far, four have been completed.
However, teachers said students are finding it difficult to answer the questions as a majority of the questions are from outside the textbooks.
"It's a good move, however, the internet speed in hitech labs is very slow and many students could not submit their responses due to poor net connection. The state government should provide high speed internet connectivity to government schools on priority basis," said A Peter Raja, president, Tamil Nadu High and Higher Secondary School Headmasters' Association.
