Since it's my first post I would love to start by telling you about the Board exams in India and nervousness surrounding it.It's that time of the year where parents are more worried than their children about how their child would fair in these exams and we keep hearing from our parents 'Padh le nahi toh fail ho jaega aur log kya kahenge'. This 'log kya kahenge' mentallity of our society is where all the problems starts and because of so much of peer pressure children rather than understanding the concepts start to memorize everything without understanding anything. It starts to become a race where everyone wants to be first without even knowing where the finish line is.We are just not satisfied with the marks we get and are always fighting with teachers to give an extra marks just so as to boast about it in front of everyone rather than accepting the mistakes we had made.I believe a person getting 70% by understanding the concepts has succeeded more than a child who gets 95% and understands nothing. Actually the problem lies in our education system,children are evaluated just on the basis of set of few questions and not on the basis of how practically they apply the knowledge they got.
Actually the reason why I believe Boards are an over hyped concept because I myself had gone through all of this stuff. Now let me tell you all how I was blown by this storm of boards and how I recovered through this setback. So it starts with Class 10th final exams, I come home after giving my last paper feeling relieved and excited of doing different things in holidays but the the first question I encounter as soon as I reach home was "Will you get pass in these exams or not" and as soon as I heard this question I felt like those exams days were much better compared to these days where you have to hear this irritating question everyday along with "Had you studied you would have got a good college and you will not achieve anything if this continues".But however I was able to get out of this time and somehow I managed to get admission in a school for Science in Class 11th and 12th. So its May and the results are going to come out any time.Now this is the time of year where the frequency of your relatives calling you increases and this use to irritates me a lot. My parents were worried more about my result whereas I was chilling out with my friends. Whenever I used to return home the first thing that was asked "did the result come out" and I was like Please leave me alone. This continued for a couple of days and finally the judgement day arrived,result was going to be announced at 5 PM. As soon as i reached home I saw the computer was already on with the site opened up and they were just waiting for me as I knew the roll number,had I told them about my roll number my result would have been announced in whole of country without me even knowing of it.So my mom asks me whats your roll no and I told her I don't remember,I need to look at my hall ticket and if anything more worse could happen I lost my hall ticket.So basically I was sitting in front of computer without not being able to remember my roll number and on the other hand calls kept coming asking about my result but somehow my mom handled the situation very well. So I tried to remember my roll number but I could remember only a few digits so I decided to try all combinations and somehow after an hour of hardship finally I had my result on my computer screen. Looking at it I could not believe I had passed with very good marks and I was over the moon and so were my parents. But here was the real mistake I made,I was filled with over confidence that now I could achieve anything not realizing for that you have to work hard.So I started to enjoy more and studying very less and in few months later I failed my Chemistry paper at coaching but I still ignored this and continued with my non careless attitude.It was not time before my confidence came crashing down as I had again failed in my Physics and maths exam of 11th. So with only a year to go for JEE with no preparation I was completely depressed, I used to cry at nights as I tried to study but did not not understanding anything. It was this time where my parents helped me get out of this situation and helped me recover properly. I also realized during this period that those relatives who were so curious to know my result did not even call me once to know how I was doing. As time passed by I started to improve and with all the hard work and support of my family I am now currently pursuing Software Engineering from Thapar University
So at end I would like to tell you what I learnt from my mistakes. First was that the marks in your 10th exams really don't matter a lot as it only gives you a day or two of happiness but nobody asks about your result after a couple of months and I realized by mugging up things did not help me in my higher studies as I could not apply any of what I studied even though I got good marks.
So I would really say do not mug up,try to understand the concepts and apply them practically and do not get sad if you get bad marks or too happy if you get good marks because it is not he end of the world and also at the end what matters is not how much you learn but how do you try to learn what you are learning.
PS Since it's my first blog please bear with my mistakes :)
Actually the reason why I believe Boards are an over hyped concept because I myself had gone through all of this stuff. Now let me tell you all how I was blown by this storm of boards and how I recovered through this setback. So it starts with Class 10th final exams, I come home after giving my last paper feeling relieved and excited of doing different things in holidays but the the first question I encounter as soon as I reach home was "Will you get pass in these exams or not" and as soon as I heard this question I felt like those exams days were much better compared to these days where you have to hear this irritating question everyday along with "Had you studied you would have got a good college and you will not achieve anything if this continues".But however I was able to get out of this time and somehow I managed to get admission in a school for Science in Class 11th and 12th. So its May and the results are going to come out any time.Now this is the time of year where the frequency of your relatives calling you increases and this use to irritates me a lot. My parents were worried more about my result whereas I was chilling out with my friends. Whenever I used to return home the first thing that was asked "did the result come out" and I was like Please leave me alone. This continued for a couple of days and finally the judgement day arrived,result was going to be announced at 5 PM. As soon as i reached home I saw the computer was already on with the site opened up and they were just waiting for me as I knew the roll number,had I told them about my roll number my result would have been announced in whole of country without me even knowing of it.So my mom asks me whats your roll no and I told her I don't remember,I need to look at my hall ticket and if anything more worse could happen I lost my hall ticket.So basically I was sitting in front of computer without not being able to remember my roll number and on the other hand calls kept coming asking about my result but somehow my mom handled the situation very well. So I tried to remember my roll number but I could remember only a few digits so I decided to try all combinations and somehow after an hour of hardship finally I had my result on my computer screen. Looking at it I could not believe I had passed with very good marks and I was over the moon and so were my parents. But here was the real mistake I made,I was filled with over confidence that now I could achieve anything not realizing for that you have to work hard.So I started to enjoy more and studying very less and in few months later I failed my Chemistry paper at coaching but I still ignored this and continued with my non careless attitude.It was not time before my confidence came crashing down as I had again failed in my Physics and maths exam of 11th. So with only a year to go for JEE with no preparation I was completely depressed, I used to cry at nights as I tried to study but did not not understanding anything. It was this time where my parents helped me get out of this situation and helped me recover properly. I also realized during this period that those relatives who were so curious to know my result did not even call me once to know how I was doing. As time passed by I started to improve and with all the hard work and support of my family I am now currently pursuing Software Engineering from Thapar University
So at end I would like to tell you what I learnt from my mistakes. First was that the marks in your 10th exams really don't matter a lot as it only gives you a day or two of happiness but nobody asks about your result after a couple of months and I realized by mugging up things did not help me in my higher studies as I could not apply any of what I studied even though I got good marks.
So I would really say do not mug up,try to understand the concepts and apply them practically and do not get sad if you get bad marks or too happy if you get good marks because it is not he end of the world and also at the end what matters is not how much you learn but how do you try to learn what you are learning.
PS Since it's my first blog please bear with my mistakes :)
