To the ministry of education...

But we have a problem here . The prevalent malpractice is a by-product of the system of education itself which is in urgent need of mending. Instead of getting to the heart of the crisis, the ministry has played its hearts out with the surface. Not only at the SSC and H.S.C levels, but also at the honours level, the exam system is a vicious cycle of a fixed set of questions tailgating each other every second year. The aftermath is a large number of students adopting foul means at the exam-room as the predictability of the question set has become a popular wisdom. And among the students somehow immune to the exam-time dishonesty, feeding on notes rather than on books has become a chief norm. All round the year their task is to heap up notes, cram them up the parrot way and erupt up on the answer sheet during exams.

And here we have a BCS committee with an exasperated look on its face, announcing (though the decision, under huge criticism, was allowed no further thought on), in all solemnity, the proposed restriction, looping those below 45 per cent, Bangla and English both, to "Entrance Prohibited". Why? Because many of the successful candidates, during their time in office, have been metal-detected as having language difficulty and so on!