As board exams approach, Punjab teachers take to waking students up to study: Report

As board exams approach in Punjab, teachers have taken on a closer role in their students' lives. According to a report in The Indian Express, teachers in the state have taken to calling their students early in the morning to ensure they study for their tests.

All government school students, mainly those in board classes, are getting wake-up calls from their teachers, so that they get to studying early in the morning, the report said.

“Our teachers have been working very hard ever since the pandemic began. Now, they even call us in the morning and re-check whether we are studying or sleeping,” class 10 student Amanpreet Kaur, who is among the students getting a wake-up call at 5 am, told the publication.

English mentor Chander Shekhar from Jalandar said that he wakes up every day at 4:30 am to wake his students to study and asks them to get back to him if they have any doubts. "It is our duty to develop this early morning studying habit among our students ahead of the Board exams because students mostly studied online this academic session. We do not want that a little laxity causes a negative impact on students, ” he told the news organisation.

State officials said that the wake-up calls are being sent by teachers and mentors voluntarily.

These wake-up calls to students and parents to motivate them for the upcoming Boards have been started under “Mission Shat Pratishat”.

Mission Shat Pratishat was kickstarted by the CM and that’s why it had assumed much significance, District Education Officer (Secondary Education) Jagjit Singh told the publication.

The State Education Department said that it has just been playing the role of a catalyst and motivating officials and teachers to emulate this practice, and that there are no orders in force to this effect.