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Is hierarchy Inevitable?

Right-wing politics hold that certain social orders and hierarchies are inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable. Some of the definition of social stratification: Social stratification is a kind of social differentiation whereby members of society are grouped into socioeconomic strata, based upon their occupation and income, wealth and social status, or derived power (social and political). As such, stratification is the relative social position of persons within a social group, category, geographic region, or social unit. In modern Western societies, social stratification is typically defined in terms of three social classes: (i) the upper class, (ii) the middle class, and (iii) the lower class; in turn, each class can be subdivided into strata, e.g. the upper-stratum, the middle-stratum, and the lower stratum. Moreover, a social stratum can be formed upon the bases of kinship, clan, tribe or caste, or all four. What Is a Hierarchical Society? https://www.reference.com/world-view/hi...

Stress, rote learning and multiple attempts of Board Examinations

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NEP2019 Draft Allowing multiple attempts for board exams of different subjects after semester end is unlikely to reduce the stress of students, it may further increase the burden of students, as they have to read all the chapters or topics of the subject again to score more. It will be better if they make chapter wise or topic wise exams, with a pass and fail system so that they have reattempt only those chapters which they have failed. It not only reduces stress, but students will master the topics. Classrooms can have mastery-based grading https://www.edutopia.org/article/blended-learning-built-teacher-expertise In mastery-based grading each topic content should be linked with tests, that checks the conceptual understanding of topics. Test shouldn't be used in isolation without content. No random test papers without content should be allowed in education system. An example of guided notes, which prompts questions on every paragraph. https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/urls/book-amiyatul...