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Pre-Teachers Entrance Exam

Shenali Waduge

The 2007 GCE Ordinary Level exam results for 2007 are given below.

Our attention immediately turns to wonder what is happening to our children & the reasons for their poor results. Equal attention requires to be drawn to the teachers too & questions how well they are "qualified to teach" their allotted subjects. They may be "qualified" while some are unlikely to be so but are they 'qualified to teach" is of great importance. If children can sit exams why shouldn't teachers!.

In times where our politicos think that offering jobs to their stooges is part & parcel of their right after becoming a politician it bemoans the fate of Sri Lanka's future generation at the hands of "teachers"
ill-equipped to teach. Education should not be a place for trade unions, political activity etc...it is a place of learning where the teacher and the student are jointly learning from each other.

It is then suggested that a pre-teacher entrance exam be immediately implemented to test whether a teacher is qualified to teach that particular subject. It will also provide a solution to those that become teachers through the back door - Only those "qualified to teach" will be entering that erstwhile "noble" profession.

Remedial actions to the present crisis in education needs to be adopted & implemented before our education fall into further abyss.

These are the findings of the Examination Dept Statistics for 2007 - O/L results

* 51% failed exam.

o 4128 from Colombo District - Nine schools in Colombo no students
have qualified for GCE A/L

o 3404 from Southern Province

o 3564 from Central Province

o 704 from Northern Province

o 773 from Eastern Province

o 2039 from North-Western Province

o 2056 from North-Central Province

o 2277 from Uva Province1

o 2688 from Sabaragamuwa Province

* 57% failed in maths

* 51.65% failed in Science

* 63.18% failed in English

* In 40 Pirivena institutes its entire student populace of
21,813 failed the exam

Survey on 4054 students from 70 schools across all provinces excluding North & East conducted by National Education Commission revealed

* 18% of Grade 6 students could not write at all

* 41% of Grade 6 students show satisfactory level of performance

* 28% of Grade 10 students could not write legibly

Only 35% of Grade 10 students could take down a dictated passage

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