Students Life
True Education:
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
The biggest gift that can be given to a child is education, true education. Education in its pristine form. Teaching a child merely how to write and read is not education. Education means the ability to think, ponder over and take the right decision. Education means growing up as a right thinking person, without taking extreme sides of issues. It is a balance to be struck between conflicting views, a balanced view which will take all factors into consideration before a decision is made.
“Man in born raw. Education refines him.”
Education Today
Today, real Education has withered away in the face of crass commercialization and is viewed solely from the perspective of employment opportunities. The quality is simply missing and everyone rues the vanishing values, principles and morals associated with education. The net result is that technical knowledge is passed off as the essence of education and educated persons do not possess the ability to think and analyse.
Education revolves around Technical and Medical courses and colleges.
Successful careers today revolve around the following Subjects:
Medicine
Engineering
Management & Accounting
Law
Social Sciences
Humanities (Languages)
So, Get Started:
Your Talent/skill in a subject should be identified by the end of 10th standard. Because, only then you can choose the area/branch of studies that you are interested in. Making such a clear choice will enable you to choose the relevant group that you can take up in your Higher Secondary Course. This in turn, will lay a foundation for your tertiary education at college.
Nowadays, Engineering and Medicine are in great demand. However, do not worry if you are not interested in either. There is life beyond these two courses.
Now, how to select the right Career for you? Parents and teachers who know you may guide you in choosing the right career.
Deciding what to do after Class 10 is a crucial decision and should never be taken in haste. To simplify this process, you can follow a few simple guidelines that are mentioned below:
1. Consider your Interests & Passion
You must follow your interests and passions. And the first step in this process is identifying which subject, topic or career option interests you. You can do something for a lifetime and still be happy and satisfied with it, only if you truly enjoy it. Therefore, irrespective of which stream you pick, make sure that you find the subjects covered under it are interesting to you. And never be worried if the subject is not Maths or Biology.
2. Examine your Strengths & Weaknesses
After fixing your interests, the next step is to assess your skills and abilities. If you choose a stream merely on the basis of your interest but do not have the right skills and abilities to deal with the subjects that it covers, it will pose a big problem in future. For example, you might be interested in elementary science but the science subjects that are taught at Class 12 level are much detailed and difficult. Or if you are good with basic arithmetic and opt for Engineering group in Class 12 where Mathematics is of a much-advanced level, you will not be able to cope with it. Therefore, you must do a thorough analysis of your skills and abilities, determine your strengths and weaknesses and pick a stream that is in accordance with your strengths.
3. Identify the Right Career Choice
Once you start identifying the things that you are interested in or passionate about, you will realize that the list of long and varied. Not everything that you like or are interested in can be transformed into a great main-stream career choice. Therefore, you need to identify which of your interest areas can offer you good opportunities, in which you can build a lasting career. You can take help of professional career counsellors who can help you analyse your skills and help you choose the right career option.
4. Seek Help from Others
If even after the first three steps, if you still feel you are confused and undecided about the stream you should opt for after Class 10; consider getting the right exposure from your parents or teacher.
The Five Major Branches:
- Commerce, Management & Law: If you are not inclined to Mathematics or Science, then this is one of the best options. Commerce has many career options like – Chartered Accountant, Corporate Secretaryship, Chartered Financial Analyst, Financial Analyst, Marketing, Banking, General Management, Entrepreneurship and Economist all of which are of great value today and can get you a satisfying career.
- Medicine: Medicine group does not necessarily mean studying to be a Physician/Doctor. There are para medical courses too which result in finding employment in positions that are in high demand these days – like Dental Surgeons, Optometrists, Physiotherapists, Nursing, Pharmacists, Medical Laboratory Technicians, Sanitary Inspectors, Sports Medicine practioners, Immunologists, Practitioners in Forensic Physiology & sciences, Nutritionists, Practitioners in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Practitioners in Mobility Science, Hospital Administration, Hearing, Language & Speech, Prosthetics & Orthotics, Nuclear Medicine, Vitreo-Retinal Surgery, Ophthalmology, Psychiatry and Radiation Medicine. All these courses require +2 with Physics, Chemistry, Biology without Mathematics.
- Humanities: After 10th, there are a few groups which do not have Maths, Science or Commerce but only languages and social studies. These are for students who find the traditional courses either difficult or uninteresting. Again, these +2 groups (courses) are available only in select schools based in a few cities like Chennai. However, Degrees in Humanities can be opted even after completing +2 with any of the traditional groups mentioned above. So, you can go for a degree in Arts after completing +2 with Maths group or Science or Commerce group.
- Engineering: If you are good in technical subjects like Maths, Physics & Chemistry, then you can confidently take up a group/course that offers Maths, Physics, Chemistry; with optional subjects like Computer Science, Biology. The choice is simple. These groups are common and available in almost every school.
After +2:
There are aplethora of courses to choose from it may be noted that anyone who has chosen Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Biology is eligible for most of the courses in college. The choice of the course to pursue at the degree level is the most important one.A chart showing various courses available to the student at the degree level is given below.You can see that there are so many courses today. Education has narrowed down a lot to the extent that specializations are available in every area so the student is able to make a very clear choice of what he wants to study choosing the course of study.
The Chart:
A Perfect Student:
A perfect student is a myth.
A student can be near perfect. At school, a student who scores the first mark is always called the best student. But sadly, marks are not the sole criteria to classify a student as “Best”. Who then, is the best student? A good student is one who follows the rules of the school.
He/she is one who obeys the teachers, respects the teachers, listens carefully in the classroom, who is friendly to all his/her classmates, comes to the school regularly and studies well. Such a student is liked by the teachers and his/her own friends and is the best student of the school.
Exam Tips:
- Set the priority. List out the questions which you are more confident about..
- Write brief, to the point answers..
- Choose questions wisely.
- Attempt all the questions.
- Don’t decorate the answer sheet.
- Space out each word.
- Don’t panic.
- Presentation should be good.
- Write as neatly as possible.
- Number the questions correctly.