The Bureaucratic Addiction to High-Stakes Exams Across Borders
CBSE issues special exam results for West Asian pupils, confirming our obsession with high-stakes testing over continuous assessment.
When conflict or logistical chaos disrupts schooling, education ministries reflexively schedule another high-stakes examination. Papering over regional disruptions with replacement marks and DigiLocker certificates proves one thing: national boards care more about standardised compliance than actual learning resilience. Instead of building trusted continuous assessment frameworks, we drag diaspora students back to exam halls to protect bureaucratic symmetry. Is a three-hour test truly the only currency global education trusts?
Fairness demands standardised examination conditions. Offering students in disrupted zones a physical retake ensures their credentials carry equal weight in university admissions worldwide.
- ·Special pen-and-paper retakes expose the fragility of emergency assessment algorithms.
- ·DigiLocker distribution proves digital credential infrastructure works across borders seamlessly.
- ·National testing boards remain obsessed with industrial-era uniformity despite regional disruptions.