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SQ Method

'Print textbooks with chapter-wise questions’

Staff Correspondent
Academicians *and teachers of city's renowned schools yesterday urged the caretaker government to print textbooks with chapter-wise questions and provide sufficient teachers' training so that both the students and the teachers can get a clear idea about the Structured Question (SQ) method, the new question pattern introduced for the SSC examinations.
At a roundtable, they also said that only a model question at the end of the textbooks is very insufficient to get a clear idea about the SQ
The students who are now in class nine will appear at the SSC examination in 2010 under the new SQ system.
Progressive Teacher-Student-Guardian Forum organised the roundtable on “SQ System. Today's perspective’ at the Cirdap auditorium in the city
Dr Mohammad Kaikobad of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) said National Curriculum and textbook Board (NCTB) should provide textbooks with chapter-wise questions as early as possible to help ease the scare about the new exam system.
Dr Selina Akhtar Jahan of
Bangladesh Open University said the government will have to provide more teachers' training programmes, otherwise it would be difficult to implement things at the root level.
She also suggested the government introduces the SQ method from class six instead of class nine so that students can be familiar with the new method from an early stage
She added that only 10 percent teachers were trained about the SQ method and the pattern of SQ is not added in the new textbooks
Nani Gopal, a teacher of Agrani
High School, said three months have already passed but the students and the teachers are still in dark regarding the SQ method.
I he system might be better. But students have no clear idea about it because they have to face the new system suddenly in class nine which is very difficult for them," said Rehena Hosne Akhter, a teacher of Mohammadpur Government School.
However, government had to defer the SQ system for a year in the face of strong protest by teachers, students and guardians.
Barrister Amir-UI-Islam said the
new system should be introduced from class six and more teachers' training should be provided for getting the optimum benefit from the new exam system.
Abu Ta her, president of Bangladesh Book Publishers and Sellers' Association, said that NCTB should make question bankbooks and distribute them among the schools so that students and teachers can have an idea about the new exam system.
Prof Dr Ali Ajgar of Buet, Dr Sadrul Amin of Haji Danesh Science and Technology University and teachers of different city schools Farida Huq, Sonia Salam, Mamtazand Mobassher Matin also spoke.
Sources in the ministry said the introduction of structured questions is a component of a Tk 793-crore Secondary Education Sector Development Project (SESD).
A structured question will ask several bits of information on a single topic. There will be 60 marks for structured questions, instead of 50 marks as Is now customary with essay-type questions.
There will be 40 marks for multi -pie-choice questions, instead of 50. The new system will not be applicable to the English papers and the Bangla second paper.