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Even
Shakespeare would not get 100 percent in English today: Yechury
Wednesday June 15, 2011 08:00:45 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Taking a dig at the 100 percent cut-off at a Delhi University
college, Communist Party of India Marxist (CPI-M) leader Sitaram
Yechury said Wednesday even Shakespeare would not get 100 percent
if he were to write an exam today.
"Even if Shakespeare were to come back and give an English exam
today, he will not score 100 percent," Yechury said.
"Its actually bizarre. Something is very fundamentally wrong with
our education system," the Left leader told NDTV news channel.
"It sounds absolutely irrational. When I did my higher secondary
in 1970, I first in the merit list and my percentage was 74.2
percent," Yechury added.
In its first cut-off list, Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC)
affixed the cut-off for its B.Com (Honours) course at 100 percent
for non-commerce aspirants. For B.A. Economics (Honours), the
cut-off is 98.25 percent.
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