A special focus on the problems of examination system of India formed a part of which one of the following reports?
Report on standards of University education UGC (1965).
The question asks which report gave a special focus to the problems of the examination system in India.
The keyed answer is the Report on Standards of University Education, UGC (1965). The University Grants Commission, as the apex body responsible for maintaining and coordinating standards of higher education, brought out this report specifically to review the quality and standards of university education. A dedicated part of this document analysed the defects of the prevailing examination system, such as its excessive emphasis on memorization, the unreliability and subjectivity of marking, and the need for internal and continuous assessment, and it recommended examination reform.
Why the other options do not fit as the keyed answer: the Report of the Calcutta University Commission (Sadler Commission, 1917-19) dealt broadly with the reorganization of university education in Bengal and secondary education, not primarily a focused critique of the examination system in the sense intended here. The Report of the University Education Commission (its landmark version being the Radhakrishnan Commission of 1948-49) is often loosely dated, and the (1964-66) reference points to the Kothari Commission, which was a wide-ranging review of the entire education system rather than a report centred on university examination problems. The Hartog Committee report (1929) reviewed the growth of education and touched many stages of education broadly. Against these, the UGC (1965) document is the one identified by the key as devoting special focus to the problems of the examination system.
Correct answer: Report on standards of University education UGC (1965).
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