Absence of Net hits preparation of students for exams

“Teachers generally give us links of chapters and important questions, which we browse on the Internet and save the notes on our smartphones. This saves us from going through the fat textbooks of different subjects. Besides, teachers too remain at ease as they do not have to worry about completing the syllabus. — Siddharth, a student

“We are dependent on the Internet for everything. Since its shutdown for the past five months, it has affected our studies as we cannot establish link with other students and teachers online. — Pratigya Sharma, another college student

Vikram Sharma

Tribune News Service

Jammu, January 9

In the wake of Internet ban in the JK UT, students undertaking professional courses at various degree colleges are facing hardships as they face uncertainty over clearing their forthcoming semester exams.

Since the usage of Internet has grown multi-fold, it has also given easy access to both students and teachers to exchange notes, syllabus and even lectures through social media sites like WhatsApp, facebook and Twitter.

In the absence of Internet since the past five months, both students and teachers have been anxious over completion of the syllabus for the forthcoming semester exams, the datesheets of which are likely to be released soon.

“Teachers generally give us links of chapters and important questions, which we browse on the Internet and save the notes on our smartphones. This saves us from going through the fat textbooks of different subjects. Besides, teachers too remain at ease as they do not have to worry about completing the syllabus,” said Siddharth, a student of a government degree college.

Other students also admit that concise and precise availability of solutions of questions on the Internet uploaded by professors and teachers of top universities are followed by other teachers and professors who simply pass them to students to get through the exams.

“ In professional colleges, there is a general practice that a syllabus for a particular semester is already prepared by us in a concise way so that students can have an easy understanding and can fare well easily in the exams. This is only limited to the clearance of exams as questions too are based around such a syllabus. For larger understanding of the subject, students need to go in-depth,” said a professor from a degree college, wishing anonymity.

He said though advent of Internet has eased everything, yet it has dented many aspects, which ruin the basic fabric of the system. “Books and practical works in colleges and universities have been reduced to libraries and closed rooms. Students learn practicals on the Internet,” he said

“We are mainly dependent on the Internet for everything. Since its shutdown for the past five months, it has affected our studies as we cannot establish link with other students and teachers online,” said Pratigya Sharma, another college student, whose engineering exams are nearing in February.