Students’ Lived Experience on Studying in Semester System

Abstract

In Nepal semester system has been implemented in higher level. This system has discouraged the only final test based evaluation. In this connection the study is concerned to the lived experience of the students studying in semester system. This qualitative study attempts to explore the experience of the students towards semester system. Five students who had been studying in the fourth semester had been taken as a sample of the study. In-depth interview was used as a tool for data collection. The interview was taken in two phases. The collected information through the in-depth interviews was transcribed and coded to develop the themes. Three themes were develop through this study. The experienced semester as a learning platform for the life skill; as they learned the communication, interpersonal, and problem solving skills through it. Likewise, students felt pressures while carrying out their assignments and they also felt pleasure when they completed their tasks. Similarly, students experienced the semester system as a culture of learning. Through the findings of the study it was concluded that semester system is the better than annual system. It makes the room for the learners to learn the life skills and makes them autonomous. It is the best system of the education in the world since it is the students-centered system which involves the learners into the learning activities requiring to fulfill the given tasks.