Coaching, classes and marks. Name one high school student who hasn’t heard of these terms. More like, name one high school student’s parent who isn’t aware of these terms. ‘Competition’ has become very tough due to another term which is never considered and a lot ignored – ‘Population’
These coaching centers – (I can name hundreds) have started taking advantage of this growing population in India. The banners they put up and advertisements they publish in the first page of the newspapers makes very evident the profit they earn (‘earn’?).
Most of the students and more often parents fall for these centers because ‘some way or the other’ they produce results. When a few produce results with coaching (which is now a term I have grown to obsess over), the few others who are all by themselves are looked down at due to their comparatively low yet realistically average results.
Entrance exams help to channelize these institutes. I find coaching for these exams somewhat an unfair practice. Self-preparation is a different concept and I would not like to argue on it any further. For instance, National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) is one in which the term ‘talent’ is much ignored.
You must have heard of hundreds of instances wherein parents have planned the next ten years on behalf of their children (irrespective of whether they are involved in it or not). They end up spending their time in shunting from one class to another. Sleeping, breathing and eating are secondary. Believe me, I do not fall in this category. In fact, I form a part of something that is exactly the opposite. I am wholeheartedly willing to attend coaching classes for entrances and subjects for class 12. However my parents are against.
No one is aware of the stress a grade 12 student goes through because no one student finds the time to express it. In one hand, there is the stress of meeting the expectation of the society by scoring something close to a cent percent and in another hand the need to clear entrances.
Institutions only need a 99% or higher to admit students. However, students with a 100% still pose a competition to them. The problem is that there is too much talent and I don’t even know how that has become a problem.
Coaching classes make students better performers. This raises the average level of performance. However, what happens to the ones who are all by themselves? Can they keep up with the race?
The thought of the amount of effort a student puts in to get into IIT or Medicine itself makes me tired. To make robots, they become robots.
Peer pressure is yet another force to becoming avoidant. Seeing so many of my friends up with so many plans makes me feel I’m left somewhere far behind.
In this fast pace, I see myself running a race, and I do not even know if it is the race I want to run or if the race is my thing.
The number of applicants and the number of candidates selected makes me feel it is a rejection test (obviously) and not a selection test (what most people think)
In the end, I hope everything miraculously, normally and happily falls in place.
Author ; Bhavana Ramakrishnan
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