I feel that the only difference between class 11 and class 12 exam is that you go to different schools (centre) and you have a admit card, yet the pressure that comes with it is as useless as studying the data of 2003 for an economics exam or mugging up theory for statistics!
If I were to go back in time and ask my 16-year-old self to choose between scoring 95% with hardly any conceptual clarity, or scoring 80% but with thorough conceptual clarity, I’m sure I’d have chosen the former option because I was a hopeless fanatic for higher marks. That’s only because the mindset of a student appearing for Board exams is “marks are everything.”
However, this ‘everything’ falls short in the future. Take for example a girl who attends the same CA tuition, who had scored 63 percent in her Boards but could answer better a basic accounting question that those who scored a 95 percent.