BHOPAL: Closed engineering colleges have posed major problems of writing work for the students. Teaching faculty said that students have stopped writing proper answers as they have stopped making notes. Students are learning more one-line answers due to multiple choice questions that are being asked in online exams.
Teaching faculty said that such a habit will create a lot of trouble for students. “Whether a student is in college or in school his habit of writing should be there. It helps students in understanding any topic properly. However, this time due to Covid online academics was promoted. Several students took it for granted and stopped writing,” said a teaching faculty without quoting his name.
Asked why students have stopped the habit of writing, a senior professor without quoting his name said that online studies due to Covid was responsible. “When universities start allowing students to write answers in exams from home without any monitoring, such things would happen. In the name of continuing studies students were allowed to write answers at home and deposit the answer-sheet later in the colleges,” said the professor.
Professors also blamed the MCQ based online exams. “In the past year it has been noticed that students were running after one-liner answers instead of indepth studies. Students were not doing proper studies and completely stopped writing,” said another professor.
Teachers went on saying that there was no meaning of studies without practical classes. “What kind of students are we developing in disciplines like mechanical and civil engineering without practical classes,” said another faculty.
Students also felt that the online classes and exams have affected their academics. “Online classes could be a temporary arrangement not the permanent solution. I have completed 3 semesters but I do not feel like learning much during this time,” said a student Anosh Sharma.
