Is Board Exams necessary?

Our education system sucks! no doubt. I never liked the way it is designed and I am pretty sure many of us share my view. I think it is designed to produce a technical labour than Free thinking enterpreanurs or for that matter any mature thinking professionals.Just take this sample We have been taught all long our History!
which has no practical purpose today and there is little focus on civics.
It is a shame to see a Masters holder don't have the basic understanding of his fundamental rights and can't use his knowledge to exercise his rights. No wonder why we turned out to be so tolerant of the ineffective governance in this country and
accept poor civic amenities we are subjected to endure. I can see politicians vested interest in keeping this system this way!

The Board exams are another useless measure which lost its relevance decade ago all it does is basically to disable a kid and categorise him as either a doc / eng /xyz ..when we will have a freedom to do what we want to do irrespective of age. Today the system expects a school kid to be mature enough to decide his career when he is 15!


With 1 bn population we can do wonders in this world, we have a great man power which is the most essential component for all the advancements that are available today yet we get treated as third world country people in every part of the globe! Why can't we have a Industrial revolution in this country which pushed US to its number one position few dacades ago! Don't we have resources! or Manpower or Will! What we lack is Visionories! and I lost my hope long time back that the current education system is capable of producing them! What can help?

1) Get rid of Board exams - this will remove the pressure from the kids to prove themselves before the system and they will start thinking what they really want to do!
2) Keep all the subjects which has no practical relevance as optional and put more focus on subjects which are essential for a person to survive
3) Teach the subjects in intuitive way - Let them learn by exploring it rather than mugging it
4) REMOVE QUOTA - It is a crime against nation - I will vote for educational subsidies, financial assistance, anything but NO QUOTA
5) Remove all age boundaries for Higher and professional education , as long as a person is able to clear an entrance exam he should be allowed to purse the career