should parents force their children to score better in exams?

Question

due to this forcing students are comitting sucide .Who is to be blamed,parents or education system.

Answer 1

The question is how to motivate children to score better.
How to assist children to score better in exam, not just by rote.
All individuals may have their own inherent capabilities, which can definitely be improved upon by good motivation.
Failing an exam should not be the end of the world.
After all succes is built upon failures.
If there were no failures, how would we learn to improve, or try to determine the cause of failure. Failure analysis is an important part of engineerring and many other disciplines to get improved results.

Competition for the sake of winning only is no fun.

Parents should fully support their children in the persuit of their happiness irrespective of the outcome. The objective should be to inspire them academically and physically to be able to take charge of their future responsibilities as an individual.

Once they realize that sooner or later they have to carry the ball on their own they will be motivated to do better on their own.

Suicidal tenedecies are prompted by an attitude of feeling rejected and not accepted. If the parents and friends were to support these unfortunate kids and there was student counselling in schools or even topics of discussion related to such issues, then this problem could be resolved, or at least minimized.

You may want to look up the following webpages as an example:

http://www.todaysparent.com/
http://www.parentingteens.com/index/Education/Test+Taking+Dos+and+Don%27ts+for+Parents

Answer 2

Both parents and the students shd be blamed for this. Parents shd not force the children all the time for studies. At the same time children shd not go
up to suicide for this small issue.

Answer 3

Contrary to popular opinion, exams are neither a complete measure of subject comprehension nor a measure of evolved brain. Its a measure of art of acing exams. If parents want their children to ace this art alone, they should certainly force them to perform better. Or they have the option to avoid the trauma and keep ONLY THEIR CHILD in mind!

Answer 4

Instead of forcing, parents should motivate and guide their children for thorough study of their subjects with lot of problems solving. If possible arrange most advance coaching aids for better performance in exams. Tell them that "do your best and ready for the worst".

Answer 5

Spliff, in his answer, has demonstrated his expertise on the subject of idiocy. Yes, I agree. It's clear from the many academically excelling homeschoolers and also from the shockingly high percentage of sub-literate public school graduates that a teaching certificate is neither a guarantee of nor necessary for a quality education.

Answer 6

Certainly not. At least till Standard 8 we should not be bothered for score (%-age). In class IX and X at present education system ot is mandatory to score high to get admition in higher classes.

Answer 7

chiildren shd never be forced,coz the child becomes more mentally challenged and constant taunting results to more failures.a child shd be encouraged to do studies without any pressure.
but that dosent mean a child would take undue advantage of the situation and not study at all.

Answer 8

parents shdn't force children

and education system is to be blammed for it. Why in other countries students don't commit sucide b'coz their education system doesn't force like ours....

Answer 9

its down to parenting, children should always be encouraged to be the best they can be, without force, it isnt necessary, its all down to how their brought up

Answer 10

Encouragement to do well is appropriate. Forcing is not.