How vacation cheer has replaced exam fear

Remember when we returned home from school after exams? We threw away our bags, rolled our socks, set them aside, turned on the television, and watched POGO! Haha, sure, those were the days when there was no concern of results; we just finished our exams and enjoyed the summer holidays. What do we do now? Go back home, check for important answers, calculate marks, and be furious about the marks we lost? 

A nightmare  

Let me tell you: the day before the exam was a nightmare!  As if we were at the end of the world, revising for a trillion times and going back to sleep with extreme worry. You suddenly realize you need to reassure yourself before sleeping, so you go back and start flipping through pages, reading the same question at least ten times. But today, as we look back, it is not the marks, but the memories we formed throughout the days of exam.

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New dimension of student life

Today, the concept of exams as a standard for assessing students’ knowledge is having a negative impact on their health. The new concept of ‘competitive exams’ is becoming a benchmark for students, according to a report by India Today, where candidates committed suicides in Rajasthan’s Kota! we had never anticipated exams could be life-threatening; as time changed, things have also altered dramatically. 

“When you compete with the whole of India, it is obvious the percentage of clearing is very low. So, failures are very common, but what adds pressure is how society takes you and how you take society, pressure to the core starts when students feel indifferent in their home because of the recurring failures. Lots of hard work put in is rarely appreciated by anyone other than the student himself, so this coupled with pressure and failures are driving students to suicide giving them no hope for other career opportunities” said Bharath Y, Faculty, International relations, Aruna IAS Academy.