Educational Objectives

In a globalised world, nothing is more important than a high quality education system with internationally recognised standards. With a commitment to make examinations in Pakistan more reliable, efficient and secure, AKU-EB offers high quality public examinations using modern methods of assessment to test achievements within the National Curriculum of Pakistan so as to have a significant impact on the quality of education. Current public examinations accord undue value to detailed memorisation of a single text book (rote learning). Teachers have no option but to follow suit and much of what the child has learned from family conversations, from the wider community and from newspapers and television is ruled out as irrelevant in the classroom context. Rote learning of the text book is reinforced by the structure and style of question papers, which in turn defeats the basic targets of education and of the National Curriculum, which are acquisition, understanding and application of knowledge. AKU-EB examinations have made information available to the candidates and ask them to bring their ideas and understanding to bear on that information.