A Century On The Marksheet!

Education: the perfect hundred.

It’s almost the end of the month and an end of the most anticipated and daunting month for a whole generation. It was like an impending catastrophe which was already forecasted a month ago, resulting in jittering and scared innocent faces, with a month of dedicated adulating combined with many raised and angry eyebrows hiding the thumping old hearts.

It was the month of the BOARDS RESULT, the biggest nightmare of a teenage. But this year, we hadchartbuster results, creating new histories, setting a new pinnacle of marks. A 100 percentile was notched in ISC, class 12th. But it brings forward the question that what will be next big thing?

I mean we can’t have 101 percentile or would that be a thing now? If we look at the stats of this year’s result. ISC and ICSE students have set new ceilings with the highest being a perfect 100 percentile, being the first on its records and 99.60 percent in class 10. This year the pass percentage stood at 98.54 per cent, a slight increase of 0.03% compared to last year. CBSE results were no less, a total of 13 students have scored 499 out of 500 marks in the class 10 Central Board exams, whose results have been announced on Monday. The overall pass percentage was registered at 91.10 which is an increase of 4.40 percent. The UP board has also showed tremendous result with 80.06% pass percentage, with highest 97% by Shivam from Barabanki.

The level of perfect score has been achieved is both appreciative yet brings along a daunting dawn. I do remember my days when we never even heard a perfect 100 for a few subjects, especially English. But today, we have it before us on all different platforms that a perfect 100 is achieved in not only English but in all other subjects. We can only envisage about that answer sheet with an impeccable vocabulary and no grammatical mistakes. Doesn’t that sound more like a dream come true?

The amount of effort that not only the top scorer put in order to obtain those perfect scores but also the efforts put in by each individual has tremendously changed over the years. Among the great havoc which these top scores have created all over the country, the real influenced are the students who will be appearing for the boards in the upcoming years. The bar of achievement has increased and so does the expectations. The pressure has been multiplied both on the child as well as their parents, providing the perfect soil for education business to grow its roots and using their fear for future. as their fertilizer.

But if we look it the other way, has there been a downfall in the level of these educational boards?

Have the ceilings and the score plimsoll mark has been pushed down?

Is this a milestone for a further growth or a milestone forecasting a downgrade?