Mera number Kab aayega!!

I guess that would be slogan chanted by all the high school students who are in the brink of knowing their fate/destiny/career path, wonder why all these terms are so tightly coupled in our education system. I was reading the newspaper last week and was completely flabbergasted at one of the news pieces that I read. Crux of the content was “random numbers” were used to decide the rank of students for engineering admission. The last time I remember playing with random numbers was during one of the boring party games called housie. I was thinking the plight of all those students who would have put late hours of studies and hard work to crack the exams and finally all they get to do count on their luck. When I had completed my boards, I had 1001 entrance exams to write. I don’t remember how many exams I have written so far till I got into a state where I am in currently. In fact I remember for one of a Pune based college entrance exams, I was so bored writing the paper that I walked out in between. And the irony of life, none of these exams are relevant to what I am doing currently. I am sure it is the same case with most of the people around me. If that’s the case, then why do we have such mindless exams which seldom test what people are good at. I guess some noble soul heard this repeated cries and he said to hell with all these entrance exams let us award students based on their performance in their board exams and lets make it more interesting. How? By adding a random number round. This is the round in which random numbers are generated to decide ranks in the case of students having a tie in their scores. The whole education system is turning in to a practical joke! Is it because of the high aspiration of people to either turn into an engineer or doctor? I wonder who aspires to become a teacher, or musician, or lawyer or to become a civil servant. Probably, one of the loosers who didn’t get their lucky numbers. In that case, I guess I am also one of those loosers ..i should say one lucky looser.

~ by amreetha on July 12, 2007.