Fear of Examination

Every so often you meet someone wary of being tested for the fear of failure. That is what education has been reduced to nowadays where your worth is certified by a piece of paper stamped by an organisation that stamped many such papers in the blink of an eye. When the organisation that defined your credibility did not look at your name twice before stacking all the certificates, quantifying your achievement with hundred others, declaring that 18% candidates scored an A, why do you attach so much importance to these grades. These examinations you appear for are a commercial venture for the examiner, so why have they become a matter of life and death for you?
I have seen students determine their career course on the basis of their capability rather than their passion and I wouldn't deny that these children fare well for a while but what about in the long run? In the present your choices will boost your self confidence when you score an A* in science, cause you rote memorized the concept best and your classmates will flock around you vying for your friendship but what about in the future? What about when you turn thirty and school examinations cease to determine your validity and you work in an organisation that gives you a paycheck equal to what is being paid to thousands others? What will boost your self confidence that day? What will be the source of your self-respect that day when there are no such material factors defining you as the best and when your field of work is not your passion but just an easier road out of college? What would goad you to go on that particular day?

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  1. Hafsa zubair4 May 2016 at 04:59

    amazing sundus!

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  2. Sundus Mohsin4 May 2016 at 05:11

    Thank you Hafsa and I would like to add that you were the one who showed me my way to this.

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