Exams – the purpose and design of which should’ve been for students to find the potential field they would be good at – have now become the most dreadful nightmare of teenage life. Students are asked to “outperform” their classmates, whereas the whole point of exams should have been to realise one's potential and work in that direction, not be in a competition.
Sleepless nights, long hours of intense study, tuition, and most importantly a near perfect percentage have become the description of Board exams. What needs to be realised is that this is not the dead end, but the beginning. Somethings about Boards and our society makes me uneasy, especially statements made by people on the lines of “85 percent is average” or “95 percent is not that good a score”. All aunties – please take a deep breath and relax!