name: does it matter?
class 12th scores: 95.25%
board: CBSE/regional
prospective college in hand: without a doubt SRCC
..................HOLD THAT THOUGHT....................
so in just one moment you are made to feel that all the toil you put in last year, was futile. even a 95 percenter is shown the way out of srcc. why? just because he wasn't good enough. just because he didn't put in 23 and a half hours instead of 23. just because he committed a heinous crime by attending a meagre party in the neighbourhood and just because he didn't score a god for saken 98%. is that fair? ok, lets not even go there. there are things and countless at that which aren't fair about DU. the much awaited cut-offs in the oh-so-prestigious institution of the country has undoubtedly left the most terrible taste in our mouths. to the extent that even the most meritorious students are not worthy of the blessed srcc's and stephens'.
its not the exceptions i wish to speak of, but the average, mediocre class 12th pass out. he feels elated with a ninety% and knows he'll land somewhere in du, with the course of his choice(which is all probabilities is eco hons or b.com hons). after all, its not every day that he gets a 90 and that this was the best he could have put in. is it justified for a ninety percenter to run from pillar to post to get into a decent college in du? they say, now is the time of cut-throat competition.how true is that. you open a TOI and there you get to read about the number of suicidal attempts due to lack of prospective colleges in hand. let alone a 90% percenter, even a 95 percenter feels demoralised, and in the worst case scenario, even suicidal.
whenever i find myself talking on this issue, my friend calls it 'sour grapes'. could i be blamed if on one hand i have the world telling me that this is the place to be and on the other its next to impossible to make it to the top notch colleges here. i'm not the exception here. people with a better percentage have taken to an English hons or a maths hons from a 2nd grade college for the sake of DU. and again for the sake of the same, you have various regional boards leniently marking the paper. and for the sake of the same you have various economically forward castes fighting to be counted among the socially backward classes. and for the sake of the same, the number of back door entries especially in a place like DU can give any private institution a run for its money. and for the sake of the same, i need to stop being rhetorical!!
i know its a lost battle i am trying to fight. its the system which is obsolete and there is nothing one can do about it.except that one can keep trying, and trying till one realises DU is NOT the place to be.
5 comments:
i would agree with you about the numbers bit
i have 92.75, and i din get anything in the first list
but however, its still better than the system adopted by several US universities(harvard yale princeton et al) coz atleast you know why you got rejected.
I applied to 12 colleges, got rejected by 12 of them, and dont have a damn clue why. People with lower scores and zero ECA have got into Stanford.
A bar dancer from our school got in.
The fight against the system, is useless. The system never changes. Neither does the attitude/mentality of the Indian Society
sigh....screw around with the system too much and eventually the system will screw with you...
thy intellect can't be judged by thy marks...
what if thou just doesn't want to study?
The system made was not made to reward the greatest minds...
It was not created to reward ideas...
It simply stands to help those people who mug up....
It doesn't merit those with the most innovative ideas but those who can learn the most formulas by rote...
Hell if the system was different then maybe we'd get what we really deserve....
Then again....I believe i belong in MIT or Oxford or something so then again....
I might not be the best person to answer the question...
Maybe sum1 with a little more of that thing....U know....Thats stupid thin....yeah....Humility!!!
;)
i don't know how to say this....so try n make sense of what i have said...
if u really do have humility....u don't go around proclaiming it, do you?that overrides (destroys, maybe?) the whole concept of u being humble!
now...the system.
the system....which system? cbse system? or all systems?
and why are they made thus, even when millions of students all over complain about the crappiness of the system?
life's little questions.
also!
why is it that our board marks determine our future (amended by a friend....entrance exam marks determine ur future,but i aint talkin bout that...)
ok. why is it that board marks determine our future, yet we hear so much about the unreliable corrections? if these exams are so important, one would think that the people concerned would take some effort to correct the papers properly....
and i have never understood......maybe a silly kid-like question....but please explain to me....
why, again, don't we get back our answer papers?
to mytique:
ok first of...i dont quite think 'truth junkie' was even hinting towards being humble. he claims that some one with 'humility' might be in a better posiion to answer such rhetorical questions.
secondly...when i began writing this thing..i kept the entire education system of the country in mind...but turned out...i couldn't have generalised like that. so i guess it boils down to the cbse system. the system is made like so because there is no possible alternative teaching method available, considering the mind-set of todays generation "AT LARGE". it will take a while for the system to evolve...till then one stays content complaining...
and you know darn well why its not possible to open every mark sheet cz that way an already rickety system will break down and collapse considering the number of "reconsiderations" that'll come their way.....
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