Belt Testing Redefined
By Zulfi Ahmed
We don’t test beginners at all. We evaluate them in class and we do graduations… It’s just that we prefer the word “evaluation” to “testing,” and very seldom does someone fail at this level. We start putting our students in the “testing” mindset at brown belt level. Only in the black belt testing level is there a possibility that they may have to re-take the tests. Testing puts a lot of pressure on students and their families, and we do it only when it is required.
This is an excerpt from an insightful interview scheduled to appear in the next Eagle.
