Deconstructing Career Success

I see students today and their parents are excessively obsessed with marks. I am not saying marks are not important, they certainly are. But focusing only on marks is not going to get everyone everywhere. By concentrating on scores, most students might make it to their dream jobs. But then, at some point in future, these people will get to a point where they find themselves demotivated and lacking the drive to go on. Getting decent scores in your 10th and 12th grade is important. This is because the 10th grade is in fact an end to the first logical step in schooling. The 12th grade score lays the foundation for further education and eventually your career. Your marks do help in getting admission to a course of your choice. One thing that most students and their parents do is ignore Inborn Talent . Some skills come to children naturally. It is important that a student’s talent must not be ignored because building a skill-set on top of inborn talent will prove rewarding with the pass...

Unlike a decade or two ago, students today are faced with multiple and diverse career options. These days the competition is very high and that is evident from the marks the students are scoring in the 10th and 12th Grade examinations. The toppers score is over 99% (various Education Boards in India).  The students who pass the the 12th-grade board examination can be classified under 3 bands with respect to the marks they score compared to the cut-off percentage for the course of their choice. STUDENT SCORE BANDS Top Band : Score is higher than Cut-off %. Middle Band : Score is in the vicinity of the Cut-off %. Bottom Band : Score is below the cut-off %. Students in the Top Band , don't have to worry too much about their career choices because they tend to get admission to the courses of their choice, whatever that may be.  For students in the Middle Band , owing to the extreme competition, there are a large number of students who are in the border-li...