Is the three language formula at the Grade nine level a good Idea?

When I was given the Ninth class many years back in the year 2009, (at the time of the original post), after teaching English to the eleventh and twelfth for a long time, I came up with some amazing facts. First and foremost, I noticed that the students were not eager about English because of the three-language formula. The upshot is that a student of the ninth class had to opt for three languages in class. The commonly chosen languages were  English, Sanskrit, and Hindi. Out of these, the student was required to pass in any two languages. Thus, if a student passed in Hindi and Sanskrit, and failed in English, he would be considered Promoted. No wonder, that year when I was given tenth class, I noticed that there were quite a few students in class who had got, twenty out of a hundred in English! No wonder these students were not performing well in class. It seems as if our educational system was promoting mediocrity in the interests of mass education! Simply promoting students despite their poor performance in studies is bound to have serious repercussions at a later stage! It boils down to a game of passing the buck! If you pass all the students, you need to provide them with jobs too.

Introducing the three-language formula in the new education policy is bound to create loads of confusion and result in the mediocrity of performance in summative assessments. Any system that imposes a three language formula on its students will have to make necessary tweaks in the promotion system otherwise most of the students will fail their exams. It is a known fact that passing in all three languages at any grade level will become a tough task, especially when the student has to study more than three other subjects till the secondary (10th) level. Imagine having to study Math, Science, Social Studies, English, Hindi and Sanskrit-a total of six subjects!