'Dear Children, I Also Failed In PMT', Kota DM Pens Moving Letter To Students
The city of?Kota in Rajasthan?is often referred to as the competitive exam capital of India. Every year, lakhs of students from across India join coaching institutes in Kota with the hope of clearing exams like NEET and JEE. But not everyone who come to the city can make their dreams come true and some are left heart broken.?
Pressure on students to clear JEE/NEET
The National Testing Agency (NTA) last week announced the results of the?Joint Entrance Examination?(JEE) Main. Out of the more than 14 lakh candidates who took the JEE exams, a total of 2,50,284?made the cut.??
This has left lakhs of JEE aspirants in Kota who toiled day and night for months and years heartbroken as?even after the?gruelling?schedule, they go through and putting in their best efforts, they couldn't make it to the IITs.
Rise in student deaths in Kota
This failure to live up to the expectations of families and friends is sometimes more than what many youngsters can handle. Unfortunately, a lot of them are taking extreme steps, unable to cope with the setbacks in life.
A total of 26 NEET/JEE aspirants took their lives in Kota in 2023 alone.?
Kota DM writes to JEE/NEET aspirants
On Tuesday Kota District Collector Dr Ravindra Goswami wrote to the NEET and JEE aspirants, giving his?own?example of being a failure in the Pre-Medical Test several years ago.
Goswami, himself an MBBS doctor before becoming an IAS officer, said failure is an opportunity to improve and turn it into success.?
The collector noted that the exam is only a phase in life and not the ultimate goal and it cannot determine the direction of one's life.
'I am an example of this. I have also failed in PMT,' the collector informed the students, and added, 'We can only do hard work and it is?upto?God to bestow us with fruit. So, if he makes us succeed, it is okay. But if he makes us fail, it means he is charting another path for us.'
He concluded his letter?saying?if one walks, she or he tends to fall but it is meaningful only when one gets up after falling and moves ahead towards achieving the goal.
Don't judge children by their marks
Similarly, in a separate letter to the parents, the DM said that their happiness lies in the happiness of their children but noted that the problem arises when the happiness of children is associated with the marks they obtain in the exams.
'Does one become successful only by passing an exam?' the DM asked the parents, and added, 'No.' He told the parents that their wards?can?be interested in some other field.
The DM urged the parents to give their wards a chance to improve themselves as his?own?parents did to him when he returned home from Kota, where he had stayed for the preparation of PMT but failed once.
For more news and current affairs from around the world, please visit?Indiatimes News.
