By IANS
Shimla : In a significant step, the education department of the Himachal Pradesh government is planning to start a new evaluation system for its elementary schools in 12 districts, which would do away with written exams.
Children up to class five would no longer have to write long answers, instead, the teachers would now evaluate them over a set of 200 objective type questions.
This is being planned to do away with the conventional system of exams, which had failed to evaluate their all-round development and had put more stress on their young minds.
Teachers in the twelve education blocks Sundernagar, Hamirpur, Sadar, Palampur, Hardaspur, Kalapa, Udaipur, Mashobra, Sirach, Una and Kaza – where the system would be introduced – are being trained.
The hill state has one of the highest literary rates in the country and officials claimed that literacy had already crossed 80 percent mark in the state.