Dear Rajesh bhai, Kanchan and others,
I haven't tried to put my point across on Age limitation of Scribe against
any suggestion or thought but I wanted to raise my own suggestion pertaining
to eligibility criteria of Scribe. Following are some more points to be
suggested from my end.
1. If the Visually Impaired candidate appearing in the exam like Music, the
Writer should be from same stream.
In Jan 2010, one of my friends in Delhi appeared in the exam conducted by
Kendriya Vidyalay Sangathan for the post of Music teacher for Primary level.
he was provided with the Writer who was studding in 9th standard and having
no knowledge of Music. As a result, the child was not able to understand
what the candidate is dictating him. It has happened since writing of Music
has some special symbols, notations and so on. Secondly, the Candidate had
to taken two exam in the same day and the Scribe was much tired seating and
writing two exams one by another.
By sharing this incidence, I just want to convey that such problems will
always arrive if a Child of 9th Class writes an exam of higher level for the
longer hours. The exam was indeed for the primary level teacher but we all
know that the syllabus of such kind of examinations will not be as simple or
easy as class 5th examination. hence, the Scribe should be only one standard
junior to the standard of the Examinee. No matters whether Exam is being
conducted for the primary, TGT, PGT or UGC level. According to me, my friend
would have got the Scribe of Graduation level since he was already Post
Graduate.
2. Some time the Examination Centre provide us the Writer whose writing
skills are not that good. this is also not acceptable to me. If I am seating
for the exam, I am not suppose to tell him the spelling of each word, or
symbols and other writing manners in the exam. In this way, my entire time
will waste in dictating him the spelling and all. At least the Scribe should
have the genuine knowledge and idea to write an exam. Someone very rightly
said that if the Centre is ready to provide us the Scribe, the Candidate
should be allowed to meet his or her Scribe at least 24 ours before the exam
taking place. I would say it even before 48 hours. so if the Candidate is
not satisfied at the comfort level with his Scribe, he can request the
Authority to change the Scribe.
I know another lady who was appearing in the NET Exam. The Scribe was
arranged by UGC only and again he was not found up to the mark. The Scribe
had no idea about how to write that paper and his entire concentration was
in talking about Scribe Fee to be given by UGC. he again and again used to
complain about the lesser amount to be given from the Centre. The Examinee
tried to make her Scribe understand to just to focus on writing the Exam but
the Scribe was constantly trying to show his strain and tiredness saying
that the Money is given to me is not sufficient. at the end of the Exam,
when the Candidate asked the Scribe whether any Question is left, he said:
"No madam, nothing is left. You do not be worried." But after the Exam, the
Candidate was shocked to know that her Scribe has left a Question of 40
Marks on Sociology!
What I mean to say that we are talking about the qualification of Scribe, I
am unhappy to observe this pathetic condition of Scribes writing the exams
for the VI people. I am sorry to say but a Visually Impaired Candidate
cannot afford to lose anything just because of silliness of his Scribe. if
this is the case, you never know if I am telling my Writer to Write Delhi,
and he writes Mumbai instead. so, above example also compel us to have
doubts on the loyalty and honesty of the Scribe. I therefore, request you
all to think about all these aspects while drafting the norms.
regards,
Amit Bhatt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Asudani, Rajesh" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: [AI] Examinations
Dear Amit
Nobody, to my knowledge, has tried to include age limit or so for scribes
in suggestions given here.
I am afraid if my statement about scribe eligibility cannot be properly
interpreted, I would shut up and let others draft guidelines wisely,
hoping to benefit from them.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Amit Bhatt
Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 12:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AI] Examinations
In my opinion, when the necessary credentials and Certificates of Scribe
are
shown to the examination authority, there is no point of even thinking of
age limit unnecessary. We all know age is now no more barrier in our
education. finding a writer is always not that easy and, we are trying to
make this task more tough by framing out the norm like age limit and so
on.
Suppose I am a scribe, my age is 35 but I am currently studding in 12th
standard and writing an exam for a candidate who is doing graduation, so
what goes wrong here.
Let us try to create the easiness and good norms for examinations.
Regards,
Amit Bhatt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pamnani" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 4:28 PM
Subject: [AI] Examinations
Most of you know that I have been working on the guidelines for
examinations especially the issue of scribes for some time.
All of us have realised the need for standard guidelines in the country.
After the maharashtra guidelines were issued many of you approached me
and
have been approaching me regularly for All India guidelines. Therefore
it
is time to act.
I have based my work on the:
1. Guidelines in Maharashtra
2. Minutes of meeting held in2008
3. Judgement in Asif's case
4. University of Bombay's circular on psychology
I need to know from each of you as to what you want in the new Rules.
What
you want to safe guard against,What you want the Examination authority to
take care of and what will be the visually challenged's responsibility.
Anything that I should take into account especially for any particular
exam. Please ask for the moon we just might get it of course be
practical.
Think of all the variations and combinations and complications that
someone somewhere may face. Thats why I am still on this group.
I cannot take care of the idiot who denies the rules but I can ensure
good
rules on paper at least. So lets go for it. Please dont send me a list of
what happened in the past I cant rectify it but I can see that it does
not
happen again. So requesting for some input.
The new rules will apply to :
1. All recruiting exams
2. All college and school exams
3. All entrance exams
4. any other exam that I have forgotten
Looking forward to your inputs
Thanks
Kanchan
Kanchan Pamnani
Advocate & Solicitor
9, Suleman Chambers,
Battery Street, Colaba,
Mumbai - 400 039.
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