"Not so long ago, I was called upon by one of my near dear friends that I had obtained a nice distinction (8.59/10) in the last result of my bachelorhood. Ain't that nice? Well it sure is."
"Not so long ago, I was called upon by one of my near dear friends that I had obtained a nice distinction (8.95/10) in the last result of my bachelorhood. Ain't that nice? Well it sure is NOT!"
- Chinmay
We live in a world which not only fascinates us but also sometimes acts in such a peculiarly impractical manner, which WE are not allowed to do. Basically, we're not a celebrity who can mow a car and still act in "Bodyguard" or the one who can leave his wife in lurch and still conduct a super nation-wide rona-dhona show, "Satyamev Jayate". We are like Sadhu Agashe of Ab Tak Chhappan. We do what we are told to and our ultimate result should be what people expect from us. But this is what OUR world is about. Outside, people who are our bosses, teachers, archenemies and all that marginally seniors are free to what to do. Till this moment, I felt that by entering in to a good university, your life can change. But there are more ramifications in this belief that the changing of Moon's phase. So basically, my point is, we have suffered a surrealistic "not-once-in-a-blue-moon" conundrum.
As mentioned earlier, I passed my graduation in a hypothetically nice institute. My ambition was fulfilled. Though that notion of it being nice was shattered two years ago but still the idea of getting placed in a centralized university placement drive was quite a new fun for me. Now, life is like you standing in front of a cinema hall with ticket. You enter that hall and the movie starts. But you're never sure that is it the same movie that you expected to be going on. Had Rowdy Rathore or Dabanng released with notices to keep your brains at home, we would have been delighted. Duh! Well, that's it. You may have a magnificent imagination of working in a Large Hadron Collider (shown in initial part of Angels and Demons) but end up in the poop-party of Slumdog Millionaire. Awesome/Awful, isn't it?
On 15th June 2012, Friday at 9pm (of night!), I was duly congratulated about my result. Most of my friends were deadly happy for what an astonishing result they got. On 30th June 2012, Saturday at 5pm (of evening!), I was duly re-congratulated for an overall, foolish increase in grades done by my university. I was so angry. My counterparts were extremely happy because of the marks that increased in their mark sheets. I was going to be "benefited" too but I had a reason to hue and cry. As a mature person, would you appreciate that how a university can turn the results like their re-sluts? They were afraid of students who may uproar for the dumb results they provided us previously. They are now covering up and compensating us with astronomically and preposterously Avengers style action packed markings. If Hulk existed, my univ's VC would be counting the turns of intestine in Hulk's colon.
When the entire student fraternity was rejoicing, I gave a thought on this one. How can a university change marks overnight? Was there a doubt? Have we really got what we deserved? What further implications will this educational cockamamie will have on our future and even the univ's future? There is an answer, I tried, for all of the above. Life is fun but truth is 99% depressing. And when we try to believe that we have 1% nice truth to hear, we're expecting. So again we get depressed. So, duh! Allow me to solve a gritty problem in a sweetie manner:
Q: How can a university change marks overnight? Was there a doubt?
When a university changes marks and even the entire grading system, overnight, it means that there was a Mr. Hyde in Dr. Jekyll who has now taken the hold. A university should never act like a politician, giving lectures and then retreating from what they told. Our initial grade in that subject, with very minor exceptions of even lower grades, was BC. Now, last evening, they suddenly shot us from a BC to an AA (excellent) grade. No exceptions! This was more than ridiculous because now though everyone had their marks shot to a new height, the benchmark remained the same. People are happy because of their superb CGPAs and all but a point to be noted fellas, which even I encountered in some interviews. In your resume, the recruiters check everything except your marks. They know it right? I was fascinated if some student was rejected because he hadn't achieved a first class was a proud owner of it by yesterday evening. Isn't it a joke on him?
Q: Why declare results so early when they had a doubt?
Now we Indians have a basic disease what I may term is as over-enthusiasm. (The Gujarati word which I wanted to translate here was "હરખપદુડા". I couldn't find the word for it, so please note!) The university has been declared one. In previous semesters, the results were announced in such a great haste as if they were going to miss a bus to fame. But at that time, the outcomes were bad. Poor marks and over-the-brain checking practices played foul. Now, when the students started to smell a rat, the university took shelter in a nice burrow from where they started hurling hyperbolic numbers of percentages. This time they surpassed every inch of stupidity that you can expect from an abnormal human being. They added a no-scientific subject, which had something to do with the Junior Kindergarten knowledge of ours. Gave it a considerate space, siding our normal core subjects. And then, they played foolishly by announcing the result a fortnight before the final (which I doubt now!). Why? They sure had a doubt that some students may go for rechecking where their hip hop of checking pattern will be crucified! So? Increment. What a silly nilly billy way to fool and at the same time make the students happy?
Q: Have we really got what we deserved?
There is a simple one word answer to this. NO. (You will get the answer of this NO in various parts of this blog. Keep reading).
Q: What further implications will this educational cockamamie will have on our future and even the univ's future?
Now, getting a great grade is quite nice in an institute where the is a difference between a dumb and an intelligent one. I do discriminate them not on the basis of the marks they have got but on the inclination towards the education they possess. By doing this jugglery, the university will hold no respect in students' minds. They will constantly feel that they will be saved from failing. No. They will be saved graciously with a garden full of marks. All flowers but of plastic. Good to show, nothing to smell. This will also create a notoriety amongst the students and a disrespect. A university that works like a lunatic with a crystal ball in hand is not the one a real person would believe and pay heed to. This is what that will happen. Happy go lucky will be a routine syllabus! But what will happen at the industrial levels where the professional qualifications do matter? The scenario will be grim.
Let us take a case here. Imagine a room having 10 students who have achieved a minimum of 8/10 grade points. They are going to be interviewed. Of them, 6 have nothing to do with intelligence and their grades. 2 are good enough to get what they deserved but got what a little bit more. And the last 2 are perfectly deserving candidates. Now, the HR people enter and start calling the candidates. Let us assume that the 6 non-deserving candidates get the first chance to appear. They mumble, they fumble, they tremble and they tumble out from the interview. Do you believe that the HR will have any great feelings for the remaining 4 candidates who may/will fare better? The minimum target was set by HR as first class. But what if the number of students having first class is more than the total number of employees in that company?!?! Hahaha. In future, the companies will then cease to believe upon the marks. They will either take their own tests or what can be worse, can blacklist a specific university for their swashbuckling behavior in evaluating students and their intelligence. So basically with a greater than 8 point grade, you will be nowhere, unless you really got something.
How can we really get something? Here is another case, I would take:
Assume that a student has a doubt in a particular sum while writing my paper. The sum may carry 10 marks in a paper of 70. In exam, he cannot afford to lose that marks just because he doesn't know the exact method to solve it. He completes the sum with a different approach. Now when the exam finishes, he would try to get his doubt solved. But before that time, he is showered with great marks. The doubt vanishes. He assumes the sum and the method to be correct. The doubt will remain unsolved and will rise exponentially when the same mistake will go unverified and unsolved. So a time will come, when he will complete his degree with a great doubt totally unsolved because the university result asked him to be satisfied. He too got satisfied and there remained no doubt! Whoa! Can we imagine that? The only thing that can save that student is he disregards the marks and embraces knowledge which includes rectifying mistakes, criticisms, counter-questions, null doubts, etc.
But when a student is satisfied from his knowledge, it dies a miserable death!
Film for today: Check out the movie named "Exam". It is strong enough to show what the world wants and what the hell you do instead! A true masterpiece. A must watch for those who know that they have a grayish, freaky, thumping matter called Brain.
Signing off!
*Dump*
(Loved/Hated/Bored? Why don't you anchor your comments boat on my shore!)
"Not so long ago, I was called upon by one of my near dear friends that I had obtained a nice distinction (8.95/10) in the last result of my bachelorhood. Ain't that nice? Well it sure is NOT!"
- Chinmay
We live in a world which not only fascinates us but also sometimes acts in such a peculiarly impractical manner, which WE are not allowed to do. Basically, we're not a celebrity who can mow a car and still act in "Bodyguard" or the one who can leave his wife in lurch and still conduct a super nation-wide rona-dhona show, "Satyamev Jayate". We are like Sadhu Agashe of Ab Tak Chhappan. We do what we are told to and our ultimate result should be what people expect from us. But this is what OUR world is about. Outside, people who are our bosses, teachers, archenemies and all that marginally seniors are free to what to do. Till this moment, I felt that by entering in to a good university, your life can change. But there are more ramifications in this belief that the changing of Moon's phase. So basically, my point is, we have suffered a surrealistic "not-once-in-a-blue-moon" conundrum.
As mentioned earlier, I passed my graduation in a hypothetically nice institute. My ambition was fulfilled. Though that notion of it being nice was shattered two years ago but still the idea of getting placed in a centralized university placement drive was quite a new fun for me. Now, life is like you standing in front of a cinema hall with ticket. You enter that hall and the movie starts. But you're never sure that is it the same movie that you expected to be going on. Had Rowdy Rathore or Dabanng released with notices to keep your brains at home, we would have been delighted. Duh! Well, that's it. You may have a magnificent imagination of working in a Large Hadron Collider (shown in initial part of Angels and Demons) but end up in the poop-party of Slumdog Millionaire. Awesome/Awful, isn't it?
On 15th June 2012, Friday at 9pm (of night!), I was duly congratulated about my result. Most of my friends were deadly happy for what an astonishing result they got. On 30th June 2012, Saturday at 5pm (of evening!), I was duly re-congratulated for an overall, foolish increase in grades done by my university. I was so angry. My counterparts were extremely happy because of the marks that increased in their mark sheets. I was going to be "benefited" too but I had a reason to hue and cry. As a mature person, would you appreciate that how a university can turn the results like their re-sluts? They were afraid of students who may uproar for the dumb results they provided us previously. They are now covering up and compensating us with astronomically and preposterously Avengers style action packed markings. If Hulk existed, my univ's VC would be counting the turns of intestine in Hulk's colon.
When the entire student fraternity was rejoicing, I gave a thought on this one. How can a university change marks overnight? Was there a doubt? Have we really got what we deserved? What further implications will this educational cockamamie will have on our future and even the univ's future? There is an answer, I tried, for all of the above. Life is fun but truth is 99% depressing. And when we try to believe that we have 1% nice truth to hear, we're expecting. So again we get depressed. So, duh! Allow me to solve a gritty problem in a sweetie manner:
Q: How can a university change marks overnight? Was there a doubt?
When a university changes marks and even the entire grading system, overnight, it means that there was a Mr. Hyde in Dr. Jekyll who has now taken the hold. A university should never act like a politician, giving lectures and then retreating from what they told. Our initial grade in that subject, with very minor exceptions of even lower grades, was BC. Now, last evening, they suddenly shot us from a BC to an AA (excellent) grade. No exceptions! This was more than ridiculous because now though everyone had their marks shot to a new height, the benchmark remained the same. People are happy because of their superb CGPAs and all but a point to be noted fellas, which even I encountered in some interviews. In your resume, the recruiters check everything except your marks. They know it right? I was fascinated if some student was rejected because he hadn't achieved a first class was a proud owner of it by yesterday evening. Isn't it a joke on him?
Q: Why declare results so early when they had a doubt?
Now we Indians have a basic disease what I may term is as over-enthusiasm. (The Gujarati word which I wanted to translate here was "હરખપદુડા". I couldn't find the word for it, so please note!) The university has been declared one. In previous semesters, the results were announced in such a great haste as if they were going to miss a bus to fame. But at that time, the outcomes were bad. Poor marks and over-the-brain checking practices played foul. Now, when the students started to smell a rat, the university took shelter in a nice burrow from where they started hurling hyperbolic numbers of percentages. This time they surpassed every inch of stupidity that you can expect from an abnormal human being. They added a no-scientific subject, which had something to do with the Junior Kindergarten knowledge of ours. Gave it a considerate space, siding our normal core subjects. And then, they played foolishly by announcing the result a fortnight before the final (which I doubt now!). Why? They sure had a doubt that some students may go for rechecking where their hip hop of checking pattern will be crucified! So? Increment. What a silly nilly billy way to fool and at the same time make the students happy?
Q: Have we really got what we deserved?
There is a simple one word answer to this. NO. (You will get the answer of this NO in various parts of this blog. Keep reading).
Q: What further implications will this educational cockamamie will have on our future and even the univ's future?
Now, getting a great grade is quite nice in an institute where the is a difference between a dumb and an intelligent one. I do discriminate them not on the basis of the marks they have got but on the inclination towards the education they possess. By doing this jugglery, the university will hold no respect in students' minds. They will constantly feel that they will be saved from failing. No. They will be saved graciously with a garden full of marks. All flowers but of plastic. Good to show, nothing to smell. This will also create a notoriety amongst the students and a disrespect. A university that works like a lunatic with a crystal ball in hand is not the one a real person would believe and pay heed to. This is what that will happen. Happy go lucky will be a routine syllabus! But what will happen at the industrial levels where the professional qualifications do matter? The scenario will be grim.
Let us take a case here. Imagine a room having 10 students who have achieved a minimum of 8/10 grade points. They are going to be interviewed. Of them, 6 have nothing to do with intelligence and their grades. 2 are good enough to get what they deserved but got what a little bit more. And the last 2 are perfectly deserving candidates. Now, the HR people enter and start calling the candidates. Let us assume that the 6 non-deserving candidates get the first chance to appear. They mumble, they fumble, they tremble and they tumble out from the interview. Do you believe that the HR will have any great feelings for the remaining 4 candidates who may/will fare better? The minimum target was set by HR as first class. But what if the number of students having first class is more than the total number of employees in that company?!?! Hahaha. In future, the companies will then cease to believe upon the marks. They will either take their own tests or what can be worse, can blacklist a specific university for their swashbuckling behavior in evaluating students and their intelligence. So basically with a greater than 8 point grade, you will be nowhere, unless you really got something.
How can we really get something? Here is another case, I would take:
Assume that a student has a doubt in a particular sum while writing my paper. The sum may carry 10 marks in a paper of 70. In exam, he cannot afford to lose that marks just because he doesn't know the exact method to solve it. He completes the sum with a different approach. Now when the exam finishes, he would try to get his doubt solved. But before that time, he is showered with great marks. The doubt vanishes. He assumes the sum and the method to be correct. The doubt will remain unsolved and will rise exponentially when the same mistake will go unverified and unsolved. So a time will come, when he will complete his degree with a great doubt totally unsolved because the university result asked him to be satisfied. He too got satisfied and there remained no doubt! Whoa! Can we imagine that? The only thing that can save that student is he disregards the marks and embraces knowledge which includes rectifying mistakes, criticisms, counter-questions, null doubts, etc.
But when a student is satisfied from his knowledge, it dies a miserable death!
Film for today: Check out the movie named "Exam". It is strong enough to show what the world wants and what the hell you do instead! A true masterpiece. A must watch for those who know that they have a grayish, freaky, thumping matter called Brain.
Signing off!
*Dump*
(Loved/Hated/Bored? Why don't you anchor your comments boat on my shore!)
A very good topic to write about...even i thought about it that if the university wants to shower us with marks then why the hell they take exams....i mean there remains no line between an average student and an intelligent one...all got the same grade...which is obviously not one deserved...even i say that i dont deserve 9 pointer...this makes me think that the system has totally lost its primary motive of giving chance to deserving candidate...
ReplyDeleteThe reason to know this is because the University has showered us with marks doesn't mean that all the students deserved that. And for the intelligent students the only way left open is to increase their knowledge and intelligence to such an extent that even when you walk in an interview, the aura of you being a supreme being be noticed, amongst the muggles!
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