School Education Department’s initiative to improve the
performance of students in SSLC and Plus Two public examinations,
‘Vetri Ungal Kayil,’ was launched in government schools in the district
on Wednesday.
Under the initiative, experienced
teachers drawn from different schools will conduct special coaching
classes after school hours and guide students on how to score more.
Question banks of previous years’ exam brought out through Parent
Teachers Associations, and answer keys are to be supplied to the
students. Headmasters and teachers have been instructed to meet parents
regularly and counsel them on how to improve the performance of their
children.
The programme was inaugurated at Government
HSS at Somarasampettai by K.C. Veeramani, Minister for School
Education, in the presence of T.P. Poonachi, Minister for Khadi and
Rural Industries, and R.Manohar, chief whip. Mr. Veeramani said Chief
Minister Jayalalithaa does not want to make any compromise in extending
necessary support to the student community. “We are here to motivate and
encourage you to perform well,” he told the students.
School
Education Secretary D. Sabitha said the department was working towards
achieving the target of 95 per cent pass percentage in the SSLC and Plus
Two examinations to be held in March/April 2014. Last year, the State
had recorded a pass percentage of 89 per cent in SSLC and 88.6 per cent
in Plus Two examination.
“The Chief Minister has
tasked us with improving the academic standard of students and has
ordered the recruitment of over 63,000 teachers. Of this, about 57,000
teachers have already been posted,” she said. This year, about 11.60
lakh students would take the SSLC exam while 8.81 lakh students would
sit for the Plus Two exam. V.C. Rameswara Murugan, Director, School
Education, urged teachers to work for cent per cent success and said
teachers from schools with 100 per cent pass percentage in the previous
years have been roped in to conduct the coaching classes.
Collector
Jayashree Muralidharan said that the government initiative would help
bridge the rich-poor divide as the students of government schools would
get coaching on a par with their counterparts in private schools.
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