In Love with Examination Results

Last month in India has been a calendar for fantastic events! Success - Tremendous Victory! a few that the whole world has looked upon and other few which every Home of a teenager has! I am not only talking about a man being sworn as the 15th Prime Minister of India, but I am also talking about the Board Examinations Results of tenth and twelfth standard Students, who would be in millions across all the State, Central & International board of Education! I see both events So interlinked to each other! I look at these events as one defining the other - the other defining the One!

How many of you know this teenager who scored 99.6% in his class 12th CBSE board exams? Do you know him? If you are on Facebook and an Indian, I am sure you must have read his memes by now! "Sarthak Agarwal" - that's his name! How many of you know Mr. Narendra Damodar Modi? Well, even if you aren't and Indian, you must know him. He is the man of this decade! But that's not my point. The mind boggling question is - how many of you knew him when his board examination results were declared? You can say, that the media wasn't as good as today, so we never got to know. But given this date, would you ever get to know the names of the people who matched Mr. Modi's Board Examination Percentage? the answer is a straight face - NO!

I might not have the correct numbers at hand, but largely, the students who score 95 percent and above get into studying Medicine or Engineering and if they could continue their high score in their life will end up working for some International companies as researchers or techies! As the score drops, the future becomes more Indian! chances are that they will do jobs in the govt or private sectors across various level of management, which is directly proportional to their score. A few of them get into Professionals like Lawyers & CAs. Going down the marks score, are the people whom we would see running Firms or Pvt Ltd Companies - Small, large or enormously huge! As it gets more lower, just close to the verge of attaining pass marks, are the people whom we would see doing clerical jobs! The above information is all based on my assumption, limited scope of this article and my limited knowledge. Exceptions out of this happen, and they happen in large number too!

On a normal day of our life - imagine your maid not turning up at home. No one to deliver the Newspaper. your car cannot be repaired because there aren't receptionists & mechanics at the service stations! Shopping at a mall is not possible because the floor managers aren't there to help you out! Given the educational background of our members of parliament, there isn't a minister in the house! the only people present are DOCTORS & ENGINEERS and lets count the top B-School's MBA. But wait, not ambulance drivers, no hospital staff, no workers at the R&D labs ... and the list goes on.

If you haven't got my point yet, let me put it straight. Why aren't the scores of all other students celebrated? These students grow up and become an important part of the nation building process! Personally I see the 70% and below as the risk taker and a person who understands and accepts failure. He/she is ready to take up difficult Life & Emotional challenges way early in his/her life compared to the 90% and above scorer. Recently, I got to know about a law graduate(read advocate) who was appearing for her CS final exams. She had been a pretty high scorer in her law studies but this was her 3rd attempt at CS finals! She had finally said NO to it! While most of her family members & friends criticized this decision, yet I congratulated her!

As part of this education industry, I see parents complaining, I see society comparing these scores and humiliate the one's with lower scores. We should take measures to make sure that the students perform at their peak, but once the results are out, I suppose we should celebrate their scores. Everyone's - Each one is successful! Because I believe school/college Examinations are not about how good or bad your score is, but it's about realizing your metal and what exactly are you made for to become!