“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”-Albert Einstein

The Education system in India is a completely mark based system. The teachers teach all that is necessary from the exam point of view. Nothing that is actually related to the real -life applications of the subject is taught to the students. There is undue pressure on the students when they reach the 10th or 12th grade. Students are forced out of social media, television connections in the house are removed and the parents pressurize the child into multiple tuitions. The child also breaks their head to study and get some good grades so that he/she would be able to get into a decent college. All of this driven by their marks and not the amount of knowledge they have on the subject matter.

The results of the 12th CBSE board exams were recently announced and the Hansika Shukla topped the exams with 499 out of 500. She lost one mark in her English paper, and applied for revaluation saying she was sure she had no chance of missing any mark in any of her papers.

Most of the successful entrepreneurs are school drop-outs but they did drop-out from prestigious institutions. But their mark was not deciding criterion of their career. The marks a student scores do not matter after their college admission as much as their skills do. India has many high scoring candidates who are sitting without jobs because they do not have the appropriate skills required for the field they want to venture into.

The case of Anita, a 12th student who killed herself because she could not clear NEET examination is an example of this. The students are pressurized about marks till their school level, they clear the papers with wonderful marks. But the education system of India is not equipped enough to train the students to be tackle the next level of real life.

The suicide rates of students in India are horrendously high. Every hour one student commits suicide, according to 2015 data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). Conversations with counsellors and therapists found that young people find it difficult to cope with failure in exams and career and usually do not find solace in their family or friends.

It is vital to understand that while, your child or brother’s child has done well in their exam, it does not give you a free pass to go asking everyone around you about their marks. You might be happy but another person might be suffering. You might ask the question to a very person and that person might be at the verge of tolerance.

Every student is unique and it is important to understand their uniqueness and promote that. Only in that field will they find success. Marks are not the key to success, it might be the starting point but the skills a person has is what decides if they are successful or not.

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Very nice and easy to understand all the people good
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Venkataragavan Venkatasubramaniam  •  4y  •  Reply
Agreed .Keep writing 👍