After the CBSE results were declared, all newspapers & Facebook pages started flooding with the names and photographs of the toppers followed by the 95+ percentage that they scored and the wave of congratulation messages followed. It is really great that students nowadays are giving their everything to reach the figure which in our times was a distant dream.
I still wonder, how can one score 98.6%? That is still impossible for me.... In our times scoring 60+ percentage was something great. We would see students making merry and partying at that score.
Time is changing so rapidly. Competition is increasing at a pace that cannot be defined. The intelligence of an student is measured by the percentage that he/she scores in his academics.
But on the run for scoring 90+ percentage, one thing lingers in my mind. I remember the dialogue of the famous 3 Idiot movie, 'dost fail ho jaye to bura lagta hai... lekin agar dost top kar jaye to aur bhi bura lagta hai....' [We become sad if our friends fail, but we get sadder if our friends top....] How Ironic!!
I have seen unhappy students after scoring 88 or 89 percentage. They and their parents are unhappy because their child couldn't score 90+ or the child of his neighbor won him by 2 percentage. This is really disheartening.
I wonder what will be the scenario when our child will be facing his CBSE board exams. Scoring 100% would be the trend I guess and the one who don't score cent percent would be treated like failures.
Nowadays parents send their children to tutions from their lower grades, even class 2 or 3 students go to tutions. Coachings, I feel is for the students who are poor in studies but it has become a trend nowadays. You cannot deny the fact that it has made students dependable on others. And some parents and coachers[one who give tutions] treat it as if it is compulsory for all the students. What gets into the mind of these students is that they start developing the habit of depending upon tutions rather than paying attention in class. They start thinking that even if they don't understand the lesson in class, they can learn in their tutions. This habit gets into the students and grows exponentially every year.
Yes, indeed there are some students, who without the pressure from their parents to score big, without coachings score great. They are the students who should be highlighted. The students who are from poor family who cant afford some expensive coachings, they don't have all the time in the world to prepare for the exams, they are to be praised.
I have seen students from villages, as i grew up in a village, students who wake up early in the morning, go to forest to collect fooder or firewood, do household chores, no private coachings, still manage to pass board with flying colors. Though they don't score 98% or even 80% but they and their family are happy that they cleared the examination. But the sad part is that even after clearing the board exam, they cannot afford going to college because of the financial condition of the family.
They end up either becoming a farmer like their parents did, or the small time contractors. Some of them really want to study, to become a graduate, perhaps the first graduate from the family but alas they cant. There is something called government aided scholarship, but who is there to tell them that something like this exists? And a large section ofthat too is reserved for SC/STs. Only if reservation was done on the basis of economic condition of the people, so many of them would be benefited. Now, we all know who enjoys the benefit!!
Indeed a heartfelt congratulation to all the students who cleared the CBSE exam. But moreover congratulations to those who cleared it without expensive coachings, without some subject teachers in schools and without the late night coffees from their parents during exam days.
Note: This are the personal views of the author. Not meant to harm the sentiments of any!
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