Yet Another Neet

Today, I spent some time with my sister in her room who’s preparing for her NEET exam. And I saw her room drenched with physics, chemistry books like a bride is drenched into silver and golden jewellery and that convinced me to write this piece. Around 13 lakh students appear for this exam and only 60,000 are selected which is just 5%. What about the rest 95%?Is that their end?That’s what the Orthodox society thinks but no. Not at all, that is not the end. Life starts from there and we’ve miles to go to find our destination.Big and great things take time. John Lennon has said and rightly so that everything will be okay in the end and if not, then that’s not the end. We all must believe ourselves and if we’re not able to pursue one thing, there are thousands others waiting. We don’t need to stop there.

Students today are not afraid of exams but afraid of the peer pressure that they face. People set a benchmark for us, but they’re not the ones who should decide. It is only the student who has this right. Every year scores of students end up their lives only because they didn’t qualify NEET or JEE or some other exam. Statistics says that every hour, one student commits suicide in India. Recently, nineteen students in India have taken their own lives in over intermediate examination results .Hundreds of parents have protested the marking and evaluation of test papers for 12th-graders Indian state of Telangana. Suicide of S. Anitha, a dalit NEET aspirant, is another case.Jasleen Kaur Saluja of Barkatpura also escaped this cruel world only because she couldn’t getherself admitted in a medical college.An academically "bright" daughter of a farmhand committed suicide in Tamil Nadu's Villupuram district after failing to clear the NEET in her second attempt.An 18-year-old medical aspirant, who appeared for NEET 2018, committed suicide by jumping off a high-rise building at a crowded street.There are numerous such cases where in students who didn't qualify a particular exam, ended up their lives. Instead of holding on to hope, they went for ropes.

Indeed, a lot of students commit suicide because they’re not able to achieve their goals but maximum end up their personhood because of peer pressure. Because they fear facing people,society.We are not in this world only to impress others but live for ourselves. We need to stop caring about what others think and concentrate on our goals because at the end it’s our life not their.It doesn’t matter if some students are not able to qualify the upcoming NEET, they do have got some other options too and can do wonders.