In Modern times, the education trends have changed a lot. There was a time when getting a degree was more than enough to get a good job. There were times when students were not even asked for a photo proof in their hall tickets, but now the trends of education have changed and so have the students. Everything is based on competition. Parents demand good scores from their children. But, it is disheartening to say that the students, though, score well in their curricular subjects are far away from understanding them. With the introduction of the notes system students have stopped studying text books. The whole world has become “score” and “competition” oriented. All that the students are bothered about in these modern times is the marks and the grades.
Understanding a subject is important no doubt. But, the students have their own reasons for memorizing text without bothering to know the matter which is dealt with in the text book. I was shocked to see engineering students crossing the red mark by memorizing a subject like mathematics! The not only passed the subject but also scored a good 70+ in it! Though these students somehow manage to clear their degree with an A+ grade marks card, they often fail as successful technical engineers. After the havoc created by the recession times, students are now looking forth to get placed in a permanent government job. And as the trend says: getting a good Government job requires you to get a good marks card with overflowing marks which reach the limit of the skies.
Recent surveys state that most of the students who are brought up in villages prefer getting placed in a Government job. While the ones who are brought up in towns and villages prefer going for private jobs even if it poses the risk of being thrown out by the company during the harsh recession times. Surveys have also stated that students scoring very high marks have a temporary memory which stores things quickly for a short period of time and deletes the matter even more quickly once the exam is over. Average students were found to have a greater depth in the subjects and were also found to have a strong and permanent memory which made them remember things for a long period of time! But, how is this possible?
The answer is quite simple. Most of the average level students section is made up of candidates who read the text, understand the matter and write the answers in the examination papers in their own words. Whereas the ones who score higher, memorize the text books and aim at putting other students behind them in the examination. And hence, most of the students who score a higher percentage are many times unaware of the actual matter which they had memorized from the text books during the examinations. And thus, after this clarification, it is quite obvious to see the average student being placed in very good companies and giving a tough competition to everyone in his professional field.
That being said, the students who have their heads immersed inside the text books are afraid of examinations and hence they revise the same text again and again to make sure that they do not forget anything. Though such students do score high they do not have any innate knowledge of the external world whatsoever. Such students know the world through the books and hence are found lacking good jobs even if their marks cards show the interviewers a brighter curricular performance. Usually these students are found to go for higher studies after unsuccessfully searching for a good job. Reason being they find themselves completely useless as they know not a pinch about whatever is going on around them in this beautiful world which seems to be stranger than a stranger to them. Although, a Government job is always easily available to these students on the basis of their outstanding marks scored.
Quite surprisingly students who read newspapers and are well versed in English quite often stammer when they are asked to perform or give a presentation on a bigger platform facing a huge audience. On the other hand guys who actively participate in sports and other extra-curricular activities show a good performance on a big platform where they get the opportunity to address and present their skills to a wider audience.
Coming to the last category: the students who show a below average performance. Please do remember: “a student has failed many times in his college days or school days” does not mean that the student is weak in studies. This is a major misconception and has to be clarified. The students who score poor marks are of many types. Either they are not interested in the subjects they have chosen, or they might have wanted to join some other course but were forced by their family members to pursue their studies in the course that they are undertaking. In some cases a student does not study just because he is so sharp that the knowledge in the text books seems obsolete and dry to him. A student may be bright but will be having poor concentration due to the habitat he is living in or may be due to his poor nutrition value supported eating lifestyle. Some students are just ignorant and do not take studies seriously at all. One among many factors may make a student to perform poorly. Students who became good mathematicians in their future had failed in math many a times in their lives! This itself tells us that a student whose performance is poor is either too sharp or either too dull. Believe it or not, but, it is this category of students who actually set up industries and companies. One successful project is more than enough to stir the lifestyle of these students. So be careful while deciding a student on the basis of his marks cards. Often these students have a very high grasping power and are found to finish a very complicated subject within a single night and are also found to pass the subject. Such students do not go for higher studies. They will step in for very small jobs at the beginning and then steer their way clear into the bigger companies to get hefty payouts provided they dream of getting a job.
Presently these are the various mindsets of the modern students as observed by me.
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