I've watched genuinely brilliant, creative students crumble under the pressure of a single exam that reduces years of who they are into one number, while kids with better test-taking tricks but less real understanding sail through. That always felt deeply unfair to me.
Longitudinal research, including a 2019 Brookings study, shows standardized tests remain one of the few tools that reliably reveal achievement gaps between under-resourced and well-resourced schools -- without them, disparities in the quality of education poorer students receive become far easier to hide.
Is it okay for Indian parents to choose their children's career and spouse?
Is caste-based reservation system still necessary in modern India?
