'Mark's don't matter,' they say, but for thousands of students across the country 12th class board exam scores can mean all the difference between a good life and a not-so-good life.
Our current educational system, pressure from parents and society's expectations, all of it can at times get too much for some students to handle. Sadly one more student from Chattisgarh succumbed to the pressure and decided to end it all after getting what according to him were poor marks.
Shocked by the student's suicide, an IAS officer of 2009-batch and Kawardha district collector took to Facebook post to appeal to students to 'not to get disheartened or lose hope'.??
'Today I read a shocking [piece of] news in [a] newspaper that one student committed suicide because of unexpected result in the exam,' he wrote. 'I appeal to all students and their parents not to take the result very seriously! It¡¯s just a number game. You will get many more chances to prove your calibre,¡± he wrote on Facebook.
He also posted the results he had obtained in his Class 10 and 12 board exams, college and other educational qualifications.
He secured 44.5 and 65 per cent marks in Class 10th and 12th respectively. And scored 60.7 % in his graduation and emphasises that none of it mattered. He went on to work harder to achieve his goal.?
"Today choices are not limited and the opportunities will keep coming as long as the students endeavour to persist with their mission. Why to let the school percentage decide the future," the New Indian Express quoted him as saying.
To all the kids who are awaiting results, marks are a passing phase and it's not the final test of anybody's calibre. There are always a billion other things to aim for.?