High performing Indian schools

[Capt Manoj Singh]

I would like to congratulate students and Teachers of the high performing schools, however, have my own observation as well. The merit list percentage has been steadily going up each year so much so that a student with a percentage of 93% sometimes is left struggling for place in top colleges. What does one make out of it? Have our examination systems gone too soft or there is indeed an over supply of meritorious students for whom the present examination is not difficult enough? Each one to his own opinion but I stand by the argument that exams should be more challenging for even the meritorious of the students. So many students obtaining scores above distinction seems to indicate that exam papers are not challenging enough.