Study hard, party hard too, say parents

TOI,  finds some parents refuse to pressurise their kids though board exams are round the corner and are keen they don’t lose out on a childhood in pursuit of perfect scores.

Music makes him calm:

Jeffrey’s mother Volga has helped him prepare a study time-table that has a special one-hour slot reserved for playing football with his friends in the compound every day. It even has an hour slotted for computer games. He listens to music while studying and even makes time for a half hour of meditation. And after every hour of study, he takes a 30-minute break. His parents, including father John, doesn’t think it’s a good idea for kids to study till late into the night. So even as Class X students elsewhere burn the midnight oil, Jeffrey is asleep by 10 pm. 

“It’s not important how high he scores. As long as he gives the exam his best shot, we’re happy,” says Volga.

Television, chats go on as before : Orkut, TV and long phone calls to friends are all a part of this teenager’s life, even as she gears up for the HSC exams. “I want my daughter to lead a normal life, even during the exams,” says Ashwini’s mother, Mamta Kulkarni. 

The daughter of a pilot and a school vice-principal, Ashwini has faced little parental pressure before the exams. “Once a month, I take my daughter out for a movie to ensure she doesn’t panic,” says Kulkarni, who feels that children are already stressed during the exams, and it’s unfair for parents to stress them even further. 

Mamta, or her husband Tushar, do not interfere in their daughter’s studies and allow her to revise her portion on her own.

Films help keep board blues at bay :

The son of a policeman who is in charge of some of Mumbai’s highways, Vishesh says his parents have gone out of their way to ensure that he is in a relaxed frame of mind while studying for the board exam. Every few weeks his parents Sandhya and Rakesh send him to watch a film with friends. 

Every alternate day, Vishesh goes down for a game of football with his friends. “Football really helps me concentrate on my studies,” says Vishesh. 

“My parents have told me not to worry about the exams,” he adds. Vishesh appreciates his parents for their attitude towards his Class X exams, especially since he has seen other classmates crumble under pressure. “A friend of mine used to score 80 per cent in Class IX. His parents pressurised him to such an extent that he now scores only 50 per cent,” says Vishesh.

If your parents also allows you to play or lets u take a break from studies and do something else like watching tv, chatting etc during exams…then plz write in comment below 

Indian MBA System

Today, MBA degree is undoubtedly the most famous degree in India. Thanks to the obscene packages (as one of my MBA faculty speaks of the packages) offered to most of the B-School graduates. Rising packages of IIMs and international placements constitue the headlines easily during the placement season. Many students are of the opinion that placements are the USPs of an MBA degree.

However, I am of a different opinion. I genuinely feel that the much hullabaloo (created due to placements) around the MBA degree has done much of a disservice to the student community than good to it. Nearly, every Engineer who passes out of E-School even before personally reading about the MBA program details offered by the institutes orients himself to join a B-School, forget about taking an exposure in the industry or understanding the fundamentals of business administration which should form the guideliness to form a decision to go for an MBA. The ultimate result of which is “A dissatisfied MBA graduate in his post-graduation tenure and finally a non-interested and relatively lesser competent manager than expected  passes into industry”.

Majority of the prospective students entering an MBA do it inorder to switch their career. But, as per my observation, these students are not fully aware of what they want to get into and tend to experiment a lot (Probably, I am one of them). One of the incident I would like to quote here is of one of the alumni of my institute who worked in IT industry wanted a switch, came for an MBA but later in the second year realised he wanted to pursue MBA in advertising which was not offered by the institute. I think the indecisiveness manytimes hits such students badly as was the case with my senior and thereby the student is not able to appreciate the program and design his curriculm (choose electives) to get benefitted from it the most.

Moreover, the Indian mentality of judging a students calibre on his ability to score reflects on the selection system of B-Schools. You would rarely find a 90 percentiler or 80 percentiler student making it to IIMs. But, at the same time you may find a 650 score getter making it to Harvard Business School. B-Schools tend to give more weightage to written scores and the underlying concept is to identify the best score not the best learner which is derivative of the Indian mentality of scoring more nor learning more. The same mentality percolates during the post-graduation tenure as well and the MBA graduates slog hard to get a higher score in the examination. According to many of the passed out MBA graduates, higher score does not necessarily reflect in depth subject knowledge and pragmatic approach.

Taking all of these aspects, I do feel Indian MBAs do not make great leaders. One of the Harvard Professors commented once about Indian MBA Managers “Indian MBA Managers can keep a well-doing business afloat or move upwards, however they cannot errect a dying business.“

One of the panacea for the flaws in the MBA system of India which have been mentioned above can be pre-requisite work experience before joining MBA. The best B-Schools around the world have such pre-requisites of work experience. Work experience often lets a candidate understand the practical aspects of industry, clears confusion about career path and hence is able to appreciate the MBA program in a much better mode.

With various coaching institutes helping aspiring students to crack the tests and the GD/PIs, I feel somewhere the basic aptitude and intellegence of a candidate is not put into test in the present format of tests. Some of the institutes like ISB, G-LAKES, SPJIMR, SCMHRD, even IIMs have now adopted selection process in which the weightage given to written scores have come down and resume evaluation (background story) is being enforced.

Leadership or life cannot be taught in the class, but surely education system and enterance systems can be altered to help student learn leadership outside the class. The underlying fundamental concept of an enterance system needs to be indentifying the best learners not the best scorers.

Sakaal Education Fair

Hey guys thanks for your support and participation for YQworld sakaal event. It was an education exhibition aim towards the youth to guide and updated them on educational grounds. The event was held over for 5 days  from 26^th Nov till 30^th nov.  With so many Colleges and institute participating, 

 

  Ø      Integrid Media ( Y& Q) That’s us.

Ø      ICFAI

Ø      SIEC Sonya International

Ø      Sumeru Academy of Digital Arts

Ø      Campus France

Ø      JetKing

Ø      NIMS

Ø      Spidernet (Animation and More)

Ø      Hindustan Aero Space

Ø      Pune Institute of Management & Research

Ø      Pride Institute of Hospitality

Ø      Avalon Aviation Academy

Ø      Kompass Aviation

Ø      NIIT Imperia

Ø      State Bank of India

Ø      Sinhgad Technical Education Society

and many others.

We had our Yqworld contest where audience were asked few simple question and rewarded with T-shirts and Dg cams. Many were able to answer and few were not and our targets were those few who were not.  

 We had our 5-6 representative at our stall at any given time who were talking to the students and showing them our website on the big projectors and laptops that we had installed.

Internet was connected and students were asked to surf on it and look for the education and career information, aim was to see the searching pattern that students follow, so we can understand and make changes and build our website accordingly and also showed them how easy it is to find info on www.yqworld.com.

We were able to help and educate the youth on present education and career environment, through the exhibition we came across so many prospects and were able to reach our youth (TG) on ground level and got an opportunity to speak and survey them in person to know what are the difficulties that students are facing regarding which studies to take up, career, information on universities, institute. 

We made the notes of all the questions, problems faced by students and quires that we got over 5 days of the exhibition and worked on it to design our website www.yqworld.com in such a way that it gives out quality and relevant info to our users. We came also came across students who has difficulties in choosing the right career, so we also created our own exclusive Aptitude test design taking which a student can have a better understanding of which career are they more suited in.

It was an amazing education exhibition and we are proud that we were part of it. And we are glad that we were able to help our youth and solve their problems and look forward to keep doing that in future with www.yqworld.com

We also looking forward to participate in many other such Education exhibition.

Thank you.