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KPDC: Please
introduce yourself and tell us about your
achievements?
Mohammad Hassam: I have secured 2nd
Position in Intermediate, Pre-Engineering
group. I used to study throughout the year
and I believe this led me to success. I gave
equal time to each subject. As the
examination days came closer, I devoted more
time to studies and Almighty ALLAH helped me
to get this position.
Usaid Arif: I am from Commecs
Institute of Business and Emerging Sciences
and I got 2nd Position in Intermediate,
Commerce group. It was due to my parents’
efforts and my teachers’ guidance which
motivated me for hard work and foremost, by
the grace of Almighty ALLAH. These are the
reasons behind this success of mine;
otherwise I don’t think I could have
achieved it.
Hiba Asad: I am from St. Joseph’s
Girls College. I have earned 3rd position in
Intermediate, Pre-Medical group. In my
opinion, studies are relatively easier up to
Matriculation but at Intermediate level,
it’s more difficult. My parents and my
teachers encouraged me to reach here a lot.
It was just hard work and first of all grace
of my ALLAH who bestowed this success upon
me. It was not in my mind that I am going to
get a position. It just happened and I can
only say that I worked very hard.
Fahima Farooq Advani: I belong to
Commecs Institute of Business and Emerging
Sciences and secured 1st position in
Intermediate, Commerce group. I believe that
nothing is un-attainable if you work hard
for it. I aimed at getting position and by
the grace of Almighty ALLAH and with the
help of my teachers, I got it. ALLAH has
given 24 hours to everyone whether an
average or an intelligent student. If we
manage our time properly, give quality hours
to our studies and work properly according
to our target, we can obtain it.
Wajida Mazhar: I am from St. Joseph
Girl’s College and I secured 4th position in
Intermediate, Pre-Medical group. I would
like to thank Almighty ALLAH and then my
parents for their steady support and then my
whole family. I always believed in
conceptual studies rather than rote learning
the text. I also believe that if you have a
clear concept of whatever you study, you’ll
not have any problems in the exams.
Fajar Baqar: I got 6th position in
Intermediate, Pre-Medical group and am from
St. Joseph College. I would like to thank
Almighty ALLAH and then my parents and
teachers. I want to say that concentration
and concept is the main thing. In other
words one must have idea about what he or
she wants to do in the future.
Madiha Kanwal: I secured 1st Position
in Intermediate, Pre-Medical group. I am
from Karachi Intermediate College,
Gulshan-e-Hadeed. The only thing I want to
say about my success is that any success can
be obtained only through hard work.
Rabia Anwar: I am from DA College for
Women. I secured 2nd Position in
Intermediate, Pre-Medical group. I would
like to say that proper time management and
persistent hard work is behind my success. I
would like to thank my parents and teachers
on this achievement. I did my O’ level and
then I switched to H.S.C. It was a challenge
for me because there is a huge difference
between the two systems but I worked hard
and I am very happy to attain this position.
Saira Bano: I am from Zubair Public
Higher Secondary School. I got 1st position
in Intermediate, Humanities group. My
parents and teachers supported me throughout
and the only thing I did was to work hard.
Sundus Yahya: I am from D.A. College
and I earned 3rd position in H.S.C., General
Science group. Almighty ALLAH helped me and
then my teachers and my parents supported me
to reach this success. Of course nothing can
be accomplished unless we work hard, so I
also worked very hard to earn this position.
Musfirah Ahsan: I am from D.A.
College. I got 5th position in H.S.C,
General Science group. I was never a
book-worm. But I worked hard, and believed
that because I am working hard so the
success will be with me. This belief, I
think, enabled me to achieve success.
Sadaf Anwar Jaffery: I am from D.A.
College and secured 3rd position in H.S.C.,
Humanities group. I would say that my
success is not merely because of my hard
work. It’s more because of my prayers to
Almighty ALLAH and my parent’s help,
guidance of my teachers and also support of
my friends.
Syeda Anam: I am from St. Joseph
College for Women. I got 4th position in
Pre-Engineering group. My father supported
me a lot and he encouraged me all the way
and I would like to thank him and of course
I am extremely thankful to Almighty ALLAH on
this achievement.
Shanza Waqar: I am from St. Joseph
College for Women. I secured 2nd position in
Intermediate, Pre-Medical group. I think
success is not easy, it’s definitely
difficult but when you have concentration on
future goals, then it becomes a bit easier.
Almighty ALLAH is always there to help me
and then my parents and teachers supported
me and they believed that I can get a
position, although I wasn’t expecting it.
Muzna Kazi: I am from B.A.M.M.
P.E.C.H.S. College for Women. I secured 5th
position in Humanities group. I would like
to thank Almighty ALLAH for this position. I
believe that this success is because of the
prayers of my parents and grand parents.
Iffat Gul Shirazi: I am from B.A.M.M.
P.E.C.H.S. Govt. College for Women. I got
6th position in Humanities group. I did my
O’level and then switched to Intermediate
which is quite different. But my success key
is that I never settle for mediocrity and
always go for the best. In Intermediate
(humanity group) there are no notes
available. No coaching centres offer
tuitions as such. We had to do things on our
own and our teachers really helped us a lot.
Hina Hussain: I am from Sir Syed
Government Girls College. I secured 1st
position in B.C.S (Hon.). This success is
because of our teachers. They worked hard
for us. Then I would like to thank my
parents who gave me all the support I
needed.
Zubash Shabbir: I am from Sir Syed
Girls College and I secured 2nd position in
B.C.S (Hon.). I am very thankful to Almighty
ALLAH who gave me this success. I would like
to thank my parents for their continuous
support and my teachers for their guidance.
Shazia Majeed: I am from Sir Syed
Gov. Girls College and I have secured 3rd
position in B.C.S (Hon.). I want to say
thanks to Almighty ALLAH and then my parents
and my teachers.
KPDC: How do you see the tuition
system? What importance do you give to ‘time
management’ for getting success in exams?
Muhammad Hassam: I feel we need to
use our time properly. We should not start
studies a month or two before the
examinations. Instead, we need to study
throughout the academic year. I believe this
is what leads to the success in
examinations. We should manage our time,
make time-tables and make sure to act upon
these time-tables.
As far as tuition is concerned, I think
there is nothing wrong in taking tuitions if
anyone needs it.
Usaid Arif: I don’t believe in the
time-management that much and I have never
been a regular study doer. I just worked
hard for every test and exam like I was
preparing for the final examinations. During
the exams, I only used to sleep about 3-4
hours and studied most of the time. Hence, I
did all my preparations and hard work at the
end. I studied hard for the tests and did my
assignments well and that’s what paid up in
the end as I just had to revise lessons at
the time of final exams.
As far as the tuitions are concerned, my
college was great and I never took tuitions
except for Accounting as it was a scoring
subject and I had to score maximum in it
also because I was up to do Chartered
Accountancy. I don’t think taking tuitions
is a bad thing, especially for students who
are studying in government colleges have to
take tuitions because everyone knows the
culture of our government colleges. I prefer
tuitions and I think tuitions are good for
the students to improve their abilities and
also for their professional learning.
Wajida Mazhar: I think tuitions are
important especially for the government
college’s students because I have done FSC
from the government college and I know the
environment there was not very encouraging
for the studies. Therefore, students need to
go for the tuitions. But the lack of
interest is also shown on the part of
students. They don’t take interest in
lectures; most of the science students only
come to the colleges to attend the
practicals sessions. Therefore, the problem
lies on the both sides, i.e. the students
and the teachers.
Fahima Farooq Advani: I think time
management is an essential thing. We ought
to make sure that every moment of our time
is used in the most productive way. We also
need to give some part of our time to the
extra-curricular activities because it is
important too.
As far as the tuitions are concerned, I
think if we pay complete attention in our
classes, we can understand to a greater
extent. Thus we would not need to take any
extra tuition.
Fajar Baqar: I believe that tuitions
are important for those students who can not
pick the lessons well at colleges. So they
need to take tuitions. Specially, students
of government colleges are very much in the
need of tuitions because their colleges do
not provide them with required academic
environment.
As for time management, I am of the opinion
that time should be consumed in productive
activities and one should not waste any part
of his time. As students, we should consume
our quality time in studies.
Madiha Kanwal: About tuitions, I think it
depends upon the caliber of the student, if
he or she is capable enough to understand
the topic at class; he has no need to take
tuitions. On the other hand, our teachers at
the government colleges do not fulfill their
responsibilities honestly; therefore the
students need to take tuitions.
As far as time-management is concerned, I
think it’s very important for success at
every level.
Rabia Anwar: I think time-management
is essential for every person, if he or she
wants to be successful in any field. Every
person has 24 hours to spend. The one, who
manages his time properly, can make best use
of his time and gets successful.
I believe that tuitions are good for the
students, when they require it. It’s totally
up to the students how they see it.
Saira Bano: In my opinion, there is
no need to take any tuition, as long as the
students study with the required
concentration at colleges. It’s up to the
brilliance of the students how they pick the
lectures taught in the classes.
I believe that most of the students don’t
follow time-management which is not a very
good thing. We should manage our time
properly so that we can make most use of it.
Sundus Yahya: Time-management is
crucial for success in any field. It’s
important that we make maximum use of our
time and that’s what leads us to the
success. Specially, for students I think
time-management is very significant.
About tuitions, I would like to say that the
situation of our education system especially
in the government colleges is so pathetic
that the students need to take tuitions as
they don’t have any other option.
Musfirah Ahsan: I don’t think
time-management needs to be followed always.
If someone works hard, he can be successful.
It’s all about working hard and giving
quality time to your studies or any other
activity.
Tuitions can be avoided, if the students
concentrate hard in the class. If we pay
complete attention during the lectures in
classes, we will not need to go for any
extra coaching.
Sadaf Anwar Jaffrey: I think time
management is vital. We need to make sure
that every moment of our time is used in
productive activities. We do need to fix
some part of our time for the
extra-curricular activities, as it is
important too.
As far as the tuitions are concerned, I
think if we pay complete attention in our
classes, we can understand the topics to a
fuller extent. Thus there will be no need to
take tuitions and we can also save the money
which we spend on these extra coaching.
Syeda Anam: I think it depends upon
the caliber of the student and the amount of
efforts he put into studies. If he or she is
able to get the topic at class; he has no
need to take tuitions. Having said this,
most of our teachers at the government
colleges are not playing their role
sincerely; which also leaves the student
with no option other than going for private
tuitions.
As for the time-management is concerned, I
think it’s very important for success at
every level. Managing time is what makes a
person successful and the one who wastes
time in non-productive activities, never
gets success.
Shanza Waqar: I think tuitions are
important specially for the government
colleges’ students but the students also
don’t pay enough concentration in their
classes. If the students don’t pay required
attention at the college or school, they
certainly need to take tuitions.
Muzna Kazi: I think tuitions are very
important at least for the Intermediate
level. They help students with extra
teaching and also polish their skills.
As far as the time-management is concerned,
I think it’s always good to mange time.
Time-tables can be followed to get the
maximum output from the time available to
us.
Iffat Gul Shirazi: I feel that
tuitions can be taken to enhance one’s
knowledge and there is no harm in it.
I would also like to add that
time-management needs to be followed to make
maximum use of our time.
Hina Hussain: I believe everyone
needs to manage his or her time in a proper
way. Specially for the students, I think
they should follow the time-table for their
studies so that they can give proper
attention to their studies.
I am of the opinion that tuitions can be
avoided if the students study the curricula
books with complete concentration and pay
enough attention in the class during the
lectures.
Zubash Shabbir: Time-management is
crucial for success. I follow it and I think
everyone should do the same. We have to make
sure that we are using our time in the most
advantageous method.
About tuitions, I would say that the
education system in our country needs to be
taken care of seriously. As in most of the
government colleges, teachers don’t fulfill
their responsibilities and they prefer to
teach at their private coaching centres. As
a result, students rely on taking tuitions.
Shazia Majeed: I feel we need to use
our time properly. I believe this is what
leads to the success in examinations or in
any other field. We should manage our time
and make sure to act upon time-tables.
Tuitions can be avoided, if the students
concentrate hard in the class. If we pay
complete attention during the lectures in
classes, we will not need to go for any
extra coaching.
Hina Hussain: I have never maintained
any time-table and I never tried for
time-management. When I used to start
studies, I never tried to realize for how
long I had been studying. I have not taken
any tuitions in my bachelors and took
position in B.C.S (Hon.), but I do believe
that tuitions are very important at
Intermediate level.
Zubash Shabbir: I believe time
management is a very important thing but
most of us don’t care about that. We should
manage our time properly; it leaves us
better chances of success.
As far tuitions are concerned, they are very
important at Intermediate level but I have
not taken tuitions for my B.C.S and still
managed to secure a position. Thus, it’s up
to the student’s caliber, how good he learns
at school or college.
KPDC: Do you think short courses can
be an alternative to the degree programs?
Hiba Asad: Short courses may be
helpful to an extent and people might be
lucky enough to get a job and you might
learn something in three months but the
program that is offered in the university ,
for instance 2-3 years, provide you with a
better environment where you can develop and
polish your skills, also the material you
get there will give you a lot of knowledge
than that of a short course..
Muhammad Hassam: I think they are
affective for some people like those who
have done diploma, when they take short
courses, they might be beneficial for them
but short courses can not take the place of
degree programs. Degree programs have great
values whereas short courses have little
benefits.
Fahima Farooq Advani: I will say that
along with the degree programs, short
courses or diploma can also be done because
they will add to your knowledge but these
courses can not be alternative to the degree
courses.
Wajida Mazhar: I don’t know much
about the short courses. They might be good
to some extent and you might find a job with
handsome salary but they certainly can not
be an alternative to the degree courses.
Fajar Baqar: Short courses can not
take place of degree programs. We, as
students, need perfection and degree
programs give us that unlike short courses
which are just short cuts to learning
skills. As far as I am concerned I would go
for degree program rather than a short
course.
Madiha Kanwal: I would say that if
you are doing short courses beside degree
program, it’s all right, but if you prefer
short courses over degree program, I don’t
think it’s the right thing. When you spend
4-5 years in a university, your skills and
personality are groomed. Everybody would
like a short-cut but it’s not the best thing
to do.
Rabia Anwar: I wouldn’t say that
short courses are not good. If someone,
rather than going for a degree program,
chooses a certain course according to his or
her interest, there is nothing wrong in it
if he or she is satisfied with the amount of
knowledge he is getting through it.
Saira Bano: I think short courses are
helpful, but we can’t say that this will
give us all that we want and we can’t
compare it with a degree program either.
However, it’s good for those who can not
give much time to a certain field so they go
for short courses.
Sundus Yahya: I don’t think short
courses can be an alternative to a degree
program because the experience that you can
get in a degree program you can’t have it in
a short course. When it comes to do a job,
the one with a degree program can deliver
more than a person who has done a short
course.
Musfirah Ahsan: I believe that short
courses only seem to be good enough when you
are at study level but when you come to the
job market, candidate with degree programs
are preferred everywhere over a short-course
holder.
Sadaf Anwar Jaffery: I don’t know
much about the short courses, but I believe
they might be useful for those deserving
students who can not afford to get admission
in universities, so they can get as much
knowledge as they can through these courses.
I also feel that you can go for a short
course for extra knowledge as well.
Syeda Anam: Short courses can not be
an alternative for a degree program. They
might get a student job. But a student who
is doing a complete program of 2 or 4 years
has better opportunities to get maximum
knowledge as compare to the one who is doing
a course of 2 or 3 months.
Muzna Kazi: I think short courses are
affective but you can’t compare it with the
degree level. At degree program a student
gets much more experience and it helps in
personality grooming. I think it’s better if
one completes a degree program and then goes
for a short course.
Hina Hussain: Short courses can never
be an alternative to the degree program.
Education is not just about learning but
it’s about the growth of the whole
personality. When you are at university, you
have to learn how to manage things, you
involve in extra-curricular activities, your
social skills develop, you know how to
interact with the people, how to face
difficulties and how to accomplish a certain
task. Therefore, degree programs give
student a full personality growth as compare
to a short course.
Shazia Majeed: Short courses can be
helpful but it can’t take place of a degree
program. For example if a pre-medical
student needs to have some knowledge of
computer, he will not go for BCS or BS, he
will go for a short course like MS Office
etc. In this case, short courses are quite
beneficial.
Zubash Shabbir: Short courses can
give you preliminary information but not
deep knowledge, therefore, a degree holder
knows much more than a diploma holder. Short
courses are helpful but you can’t compare it
with any degree programs.
KPDC: Is our examination system well
enough to discourage students for cheating
during exams? What suggestion would you give
to Government to make it better? Also share
your comments about the five-year papers?
Muhammad Hassam: I feel that the
paper should be of objective type so that
the student must study the whole book
thoroughly. Whereas, in our current system,
the students know with the help of the
five-year papers which questions are going
to come next year and they don’t need to
study the whole book. I don’t think
five-year papers should be followed because
that gives students an opportunity of
selective studies. The examination pattern
should be changed for every year. As far as
the combined examination of 11th and 12th is
concerned, I think that’s not a right
decision. It will be quite tough for the
students to prepare for the 12 papers at one
time.
Hiba Asad: I would say that the
syllabus needs to be changed completely.
It’s so out-dated that our parents say that
they used to follow the same books. It
should be modified. By cheating and by
following five-years papers, students might
get passed, but they will never get the
internal satisfaction and at some stage of
life they will be caught.
About the examination system, I would say
that papers should be prepared on conceptual
basis and it should be more logical. Paper
should be only 50% subjective and other 50%
of it should include objectives and MCQs.
Fahima Farooq Advani: As regards the
cheating, when we get the admit card, it is
written on it that anyone who is caught
doing cheating, his admit card will be taken
away. But the problem in our country is that
rules and systems are made but they are not
imposed. Moreover, education system should
be on semester basis and MCQs and short
question-answers should be included in the
examination papers.
Wajida Mazhar: Five-years papers are
good but students should not completely rely
upon them. With the help of five-years
papers, you know the pattern of the
examination which helps students a lot.
About examination paper, I believe that 50%
should be objective and 50% should be
subjective because it will reduce the need
of rote learning and student will need to do
conceptual studies more.
Fajar Baqar: I think our examination
system makes students follow rote learning.
I am also in favour of MCQs and objective
questions.
As far as the cheating is concerned, I think
some students have a habit to cheat but they
should be taught that cheating is a bad
habit and one can’t achieve anything with
cheating.
As far as the five-years papers are
concerned, they make our studies selective
and we can’t make our concept clear and this
is the negative aspect of following
five-years papers.
Madiha Kanwal: I feel that five-years
papers are essential because these papers
enable us to know the pattern of the paper,
how the questions will come and how to
answer them.
About the syllabus, I think it’s very
out-dated and needs to be modified. Another
thing I would like to say here is that rote
learning is also important in our
examination system.
Rabia Anwar: I believe that
five-years papers are there to get help
from, but using it as an alternative of the
book is wrong.
Regarding the syllabus, it should be updated
specially the English curriculum needs to be
changed, as it has no standard at all.
Saira Bano: For cheating, I’ll only
say that it’s our personal responsibility
that we don’t do that, because we should be
aware of that cheating is a crime. If
everyone feels responsibility and corrects
his approach, there is no need of any system
to prevent cheating.
As regards to the five-years papers, I think
there is no harm in using it to know the
pattern but if you follow this for your
preparation of the examination it restricts
your learning as you only try to cover the
course to the extent which enables you to
get pass, as a result, we don’t go through
the whole book which is unfortunate.
Sundus Yahya: I think cheating is
common in our system and the examiners are
paid for helping the students in cheating.
This system needs to be changed and teachers
should act more responsibly.
About five-years papers, I believe the
papers are good to know the pattern but
following this for the preparation of exams
is not the right use of it.
I must say that our syllabus is completely
outmoded and it needs to be changed to a
great extent.
Musfirah Ahsan: I don’t think the
problem is with five-year papers or
teachers. It’s the system that creates
problems. There is no logic we find it in
our curricula books. Most of the books have
not been updated, thus, the students are
provided with the obsoleted and insufficient
knowledge through these books.
As far as cheating is concerned, I think
everyone does it if he or she gets chance,
even I do that for confirming my answers.
Sadaf Anwar Jaffery: It seems to me
that we can not cover the topic of cheating
in few lines. It’s a very debatable topic
and everyone does it to some extent, at
least I think so.
As far the five-years papers are concerned,
I feel that in O-Level, there is no concept
of five-years papers, but here in
Intermediate system, everyone believes that
if you learn from the five-years papers
you’ll get pass. The reason being that the
questions are repeated after every 2 or 3
years. I didn’t follow Five-year papers,
because it restricts your learning
abilities.
Syeda Anam: I must say that our
syllabus is totally obsolete. I feel very
embarrassing to be a Pakistani when I look
at our syllabus. I read in an article that a
foreign analyst said that the education
system in Pakistan doesn’t polish the skills
of the students, thus, the Indian students
are being preferred over Pakistani students.
We, as students, should get together on a
platform to make efforts to improve our
education system. I would also disagree with
the idea of combined examinations of class 9
and 10.
Shanza Waqar: I think that our
syllabus, apart from the science subjects,
demands completely rote learning. The
standard of English, Urdu, Pakistan Studies
is very pathetic and anyone can guess the
next year’s paper without trying hard, since
the papers are prepared on the basis of
Five-years papers.
Muzna Kazi: I would also agree that
five-years papers are helpful for having
idea of the paper pattern but the pattern
should be changed after sometime. Otherwise,
what is happening now is that students
follow the five-years papers and they don’t
get into the bother of going through the
whole syllabus and they are still able to
get through the exams. That’s why I believe
the pattern of the examination should be
changed at regular intervals.
I am of the opinion that cheating is now a
bit difficult to do but those who have this
habit and they are expert at it, are able to
do it somehow.
Iffat Gul Shirazi: I feel that the
questions should be changed every year. The
paper should be made in a challenging way to
test the basic knowledge of the students.
About five-years papers, I think there
should be no such thing, and students should
learn the whole syllabus.
Hina Hussain: Five-years papers
should only be used to know the pattern and
distribution of the marks and should not be
used to get for the preparation of exams. I
learned the whole book rather than looking
at the five-years.
Shazia Majeed: I think up to
Intermediate level, we can prepare for the
exams from the five-years papers, but at
degree-level, you don’t get that much help
from them. Consequently, the students get
confused, they follow the five-years papers
to prepare for the exams. I get the
impression that our teachers also get help
from the five-years papers because they
themselves advice their students to follow
the papers.
Zubash Shabbir: If the five-years
papers are followed to have an idea about
the paper pattern, I think there is no harm
in it, but one can’t prepare from these
papers for the examinations. It leaves you
helpless if the paper doesn’t come according
to them. It’s better for us from every
aspect that we learn the whole book.
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