Marks are just numbers, look beyond marks, explore your potential

Young Bites. Dated: 5/17/2019 11:29:17 AM


ER ABHA GUPTA(BE(GCET), ME(PANJAB UNIVERSITY)
Recently the board results were declared. Many rejoiced and many were disappointed. The channels and newspapers were boosting the toppers. Whooping marks like 99.9%, 98%, 97% were scored by students. The boosting of toppers left the average students feel inferior. Many students locked themselves in the rooms feeling guilty of scoring low or failing in boards. Sometimes the guilt overpowers the mind and many students commit suicide. On occasions, the weight of expectation parents put on a child is what results in him/her taking the extreme step if they perform poorly in board exams.
But dear students marks are not the criteria to determine success.
Recently, a 2009-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Officer Awanish Kumar Sharan, who is currently the District Magistrate of Kabirdham district, Chhattisgarh, took to Facebook asking students "not to get disheartened or lose hope" on getting poor results.
He wrote on Facebook, "Today I read a shocking news in newspaper that one student committed suicide because of unexpected result in the exam. I appeal to all students and their parents not to take the result very seriously! It's just a number game. You will get many more chances to prove your caliber.
Going beyond simple advice, the IAS officer also posted the results he had obtained in his Class 10 and 12 board exams, college and other educational qualifications. He scored 44.5 per cent and 65 per cent marks in Class 10 and 12 respectively, besides obtaining 60.7 per cent in his graduation. And today he is an IAS Officer.
In today’s time, choices are endless, school percentage cannot decide the future.
A mother from Delhi, Vandana Katoch, is winning the internet with the way she is unapologetically proud of her son’s marks and is celebrating the same.
The proud mom posted the following message on her Facebook page:
“Super proud of my boy who scored a 60% in Class 10 board exams. Yes, it is not a 90, but that doesn't change how I feel. Simply because I have seen him struggle with certain subjects almost to the point of giving up, and then deciding to give his all in the last month-and-a-half to finally make it through! Here's to you, Aamer. And others like you - fishes asked to climb trees. Chart your own course in the big, wide ocean, my love. And keep your innate goodness, curiosity and wisdom alive. And of course, your wicked sense of humour!”
The message shows the optimism in the mother, who never felt bad that her son scored only 60, but she knew that how hardly he struggled in passing some subjects which were difficult for him. Her viral post is a refreshingly different take on the way we usually look at and discuss the examination results of our children.
Her views show her brilliant mindset. After all Sachin Tendulkar could not clear his 12th, but if his parents would have pressurized him to clear 12th then we would not have got a Legend of Cricket.

 

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