Board of Boredom

Scoring a perfect ten in ones life is an impossible task but looking at the multiple options available today in the field of education certainly want to rewind the clock back. Only thing that I can trade is my little intelligence and power of remembrance and if given a chance still can conquer the world. Sounds too greedy? Should be satisfied with what I got. In our time we had to move along a routine path, a straight line and never looked for other options, our lifestyle was an unpolluted one. Our parents too were very novice and never tried to find something for us that can be call as path breaker. After all these, we can say that apart from examination blues we spent pretty tension free life as a student.

Student certainly benefited from these widen path of today’s education system but we cannot overlook the problem exists in the system. This current system and a demon called entrance exams put so much stress in a student and no one there who really can imagine the pain and agony the students had to bear during these period. Be it CAT, MAT, XLRI, IIT-JEE, WBJEE, MCET, VIT or others; make the student feel like an animal that preparing to enter a slaughterhouse. I mainly deal with students those studying in higher Secondary, Engineering and under graduate science so very familiar with the situation during this period.

Last year was worst of it, a few students of mine who were sure of clearing entrance examination with moderate rank but failed to do so. They were with me when the result declared and that afternoon I have to console them, kept telling, “Come on! This is not the end of the world”, because I was damn scared for them.

Admission in a reputed college is like a lottery ticket. The way things are going on one-day cut of marks will be 100 and even it ends with 101 then there is nothing to surprise
of it. The counseling for engineering colleges is like a circus, playing mind game with the students who unable to get a good rank. Students already psychologically drain when one by one desired college or a stream start vanishing from the list. Before entering to a college students had to go through tremendous amount of grinds and stress, cannot imagine what stored for them in future. Parents are more interested about the campusing status than the infrastructure of the said college.

All educational boards and the peoples who are running it, is least bother to look at the real problem and just busy minting money. West Bengal University Technical (W-BUT) is full of BUTs and Ifs, all together is a big messy affair. Hardly try to clean up their education system, how can a student who hardly knows anything and still getting away with a score 7 to 8.5 per semester, amazing. No proper timetable for examination or result declaration. For them students are like a guinea pig.

!!!Can we say All IZZ Well? No, very pathetic, hollow and scary.!!!