Dr Jagadish's take on Modi's Exam Pariksha Pe Charcha :-

"It’s an excellent move by our honourable prime minister who took time off in spite of his busy schedule to speak to exam going students of this country. It’s a great encouragement and site for students who are appearing for public exam. Some will be  attending standard 10 for the first time having a public examination. Others maybe from 11th and 12th.The preparation for 10th final exam starts from each standard when a child enters high school. Parents and teachers should join hand-in-hand to identify the difficulty in studying children. Children can have many difficulties to perform well in spite of being intelligent.

Some children may be very intelligent but their attention span will be very less hence they will not be able to sit and study for long hours, because of inattentiveness learning comes down as they go to higher classes. Such children can be of high risk to get addicted to gadgets and they may also have associated behavioural issues like throwing tantrums, back answering parents, disobedient at school etc. These things to be identified at the earliest and appropriate therapy should be initiated, sometimes with medication. Hence it is desirable to consult mental health professionals.

Some children maybe intelligent yet they find it difficult to perform due to following reasons :

Good subject , especially they may be lacking in performing in languages or mathematics or any other subjects intelligence will be average or below average.

Some children will be able to answer for all the questions but find it difficult to translate their thinking into writing hence they score less in exam.

Some children have understood everything able to write but they can’t keep up with the pace of answering three hours all the questions so the written skills difficult there may be slow writers irrespective of their intelligence

There are children who are extremely sensitive and highly focused but there may be very anxious. They would have prepared everything but when the exam approaches they become anxious, nervous and start crying. Sometimes they report to the parents I may not be able to write exam this time I will take it next time, in spite of being well prepared. However much the parents trying to convince these children find it difficult to cope with it hence such children also to be shown to a mental health professional and appropriate intervention can definitely make them better rather than coming few days before exam examination.

Small percentage of children are very perfect. They want things to be very elderly. I should know this means I should know hundred percent 95% they’re not happy so because of their perfectionism sometimes they find it difficult to complete the task and they are also very dissatisfied out of hundred marks, even if they attended 95 to 98 marks. They will be worried about the marks they have not attempted. Such children are said to be identified and appropriate consultation , therapies will definitely make the children enjoy and write.

In a nutshell , identifying children with  learning disabilities and other behavioural issues as soon as they enter high school and appropriate time makes them to perform better in the final exam exam at 10."