Daily Times

Sir: I would like to draw your attention to the condition of our examination system. 100,613 students have enrolled this year for the SSC exams. News channels have been showing the conditions of the classrooms where papers are being held. Our government fails to make simple arrangements for students appearing in examinations.

What is expected from the government is that it provide students with necessities like classrooms with better furniture and electricity. Instead students are forced to sit in the open or in tents providing minimal shade. Students are even seen sharing a single desk to solve their papers.
Not only this, the invigilators are least concerned about what is happening in examination halls. Students use illicit means available to them to cheat — be it cell phones, notes or even books. Nearly five hundred students have been caught cheating.
If this is how things are then why take examinations in the first place?
AZMEENA ALIDINA
Karachi