[By Wandell Passah, Ex HOD Electronics St Edmunds college, Member of AISEC All India Save Edn Committee]
The Meghalaya Govt, having faced the debacle of its MBOSE or Meghalaya Board Of Secondary Education in the year 2019 when after 2018, there was a change of Government with Mr L Rymbui becoming the Education Minister and 2019 SSLC of South Garo Hills, its result devastating for reasons to be told as writing progresses.
And The Union Education Minister, Sri Nishank Pohkriyal Progress Report put Meghalaya at bottom but defended by Bihar failed to invite the Postmortem of the Secreteriat of Education Department
The reason why last defended by Bihar was when Mr L Rymbui became Education Minister, he succumbed to the invasion of these Delhi Publishers and as my subject is Plysics and later Electronics when Electronics was made the subject in lieu of Chemistry.
In my trying to help one student of a village school in the Half Yearly Exam, The Science Book by Sally And Agarwal was discovered to be full of errors and the 3 fundamental Experiments we read in PU SC one year course The Archimedes Experiment, Faraday’s Law of Electromagnetic Induction and Sound needs a medium to propagate were all wrong. Fuse is 60 %Lead 40 %Tin which is but the solder needed in repair of electronics gadget.
Supersonic Boom meant for Degree the auditory illusion of boom when Supersonic Jet whishes past, and lots more all cooked up.
Compelled to write in the Shillong Times in July 2019, the 2020 21 22 Session saw a new Science by the same author, with glossier, costlier raised from Rs 250 to Rs 285. And Supersonic Boom, Archimedes Priciple, fuse removed but another error crept in yes not solder but the fuse has Resistance. And the Heads were ordered not to let students use the old books. With Covid still in its peak, the parents were devastated.
But 60, 000 copies every year the cause of the rise is as clear as crystal and it apoeared no Sitting in the Department dealing with textbooks.
When the new Education Minister came in, he being MSc Physics, in the month of September of 2023, a letter was written by Speed Post with Delivery Status.
What compelled me to have to write was in few Schools that invited me to select teachers, the Physics Teacher had corrected that Rainbow Formation you see in the video and as a teacher I fear that in Examination, the correct explanation will bring zero for the evualator would follow the book
But no reply at least to discuss and have it corrected.
And 2024 SSLC examination was carried out with Rainbow Formation among many like Fuse having a resistance, Faraday’s Law of Electromagnetic Induction with Two Magnets Fixed, the single turn Copper wire quite strong may be with galvanometer dropped.
One turn won’t show deflection on the Galvanometer right and the velocity of fall V =ut +1/2 gt squared and one experiment one galvanometer spoiled 6.
And with all these rots at last NCERT texts were introduced for 2025 and many Physics Teachers told me it is no different as That CBSE 9 and 10 not in Text books curriculum.
But the teachers are not to be blamed as in 2011, The MBOSE had snatched the 11 and 12 from Degree under NEHU.
In our time, Principals looked at 11 and 12 as the platforms of academic excellence and the old experienced teachers (Professors the taboo by the UGC unless you have your name with Dr in front) and look before this NEET could come to Meghalaya in 2019, all toppers in P, C B could become Doctors.
And fresh teachers from NEHU PG could not teach 11 and 12 and in 2020, one NEET made easy invaded 2 rival colleges of Shillong about 800 metre apart by way of sample like medical Mr
Teachers used this book and soon sampled to class.. 2021 HSSLC Physics had all the questions from the guide book, the Pradeep Physic Fundamental by Dr Gober and Kagia, Vol 1 and 2 and price Rs 1580.
I got this book as present from one student who failed to qualify The NEET and switch to Arts.
It weighs both volume around 4kg 780 gm.
So a day after the Physics paper, again The Shillong Times wrote of all questions set from Pradeep Physics Fundamental.
The start of 2022 Jaintia students who read the paper last year, had the Amazon in peak Covid to sell to all Jaintia students. But that 2022 HSSLC had none from the help book except dipole moment of an electron moving round the nucleus.
Teachers told me all books sold as junk.
And the news that that Guide Book is ordered by the CM Conrad Sangma to be used with Rainbow Formation wrong again as by Sally and Agarwal, and the Motor taught like putting a cart before the horse look the diagram in The Guide Book is you have seen studied in 11 Part 1 of CBSE compiled by 16 JNU and IIT professors and 2 PGts.
And the one we used in the 67s is also by SG Starling for BSc.
For 9 and 10 for motor only Fleming Left Hand Rule to study.
For generator it needs The Faraday’s Law of Electromagnetic Induction.
You drop a magnet through a coil you will see the current in the galvanometer. If North Pole points then current in one direction
If The South Pole first the the current will be in the other direction.
And Mr Conrad Sangma on Grammar please know its history
Dr B Pakem the Education Minister then later the VC of NEHU, sent one DPI to France and the casualty was Grammar murdered with that English Grammar and Composition by Bhanot and H Martin again sold as junk.
Weak in Arithmetic but saviour Grammar were devastated
Grammar is needed since KG Mary had a little lamb
Little drops of water
And look at the Grammar Song Class 1 1971
By P Wahlang
Three little words you often see
An Article, a, or an, and the,
A Noun’s the name of anything
As school or garden, hoop or swing.
The Adjective tell the kind of Noun,
As great small, pretty, white or brown,
Instead of Noun the Pronouns stand,
His head, her face, my eyes arm, your hand.
Verbs tell of something being done, To read, write, count, sing, jump or run,
How things are done the Adverbs tell,
As slowly, quickly, ill or well.
Conjunctions join the words together,
As men and women, wind or weather,
The Prepositions stand before
A Noun as in or through a door.
The Interjection shows surprise
As Oh! how pretty! Ah! how wise!
The whole are called Nine Parts of Speech,
Which Reading, Writing, Speaking teach
The poem also translated to Khasi.
We read in class 1 Price Re 1. 75 paise
Grammar can not be taught in last minute please.