SRCC Cut-off Row: Shouting what has been known for long.

To all young aspirants

Please do not feel de-moralised if your dream of getting into SRCC has not materialised because you couldn't get 100% as a non-commerce student. It's not your loss but of the institution if it 'unintentionally' discourages a wider, ecelectic mix of fundamental learning for the student base.

This entire fiasco highlights a few things quite clearly. No, not just that we lack more quality institutions or that the quality of students has gone through the roof. What it does however tell is the fundamental flaw in our understanding of assessment, and review.

This however is not a newly acquired handicap. For a country that has known to put people through strange tests expecting stranger results can never get a grip of what testing really is. Leave alone the assumption that examination boards have any clue as to what they are looking for.
Digressing from academics, if i may be allowed, we have grown up knowing tests are a fundamental part of lives. An agni pariksha for chastity, or be it a lakshman rekha for control or fasting for austerity, we Indians love putting ourselves to test. However, the tradition breaks down when modern education gets intwined with unrealistic expectations.

How on earth are you promoting holistic education with cut-off's being the only criterion for gaining admission. By classifying students as non-commerce and then putting a 100% 'see-if-you-clear' criteria are you assuming a 17-yr old to focus on anything but academics.

If SRCC is truly looking at taking students with these credentials alone, then there is a serious flaw in our system. The corporate patronage to such institutions needs to be looked at again. Because lets face it, the reason for such craze for the institution is not for its 'learning' provided, but for the 'packages' available thereafter. Corporates need to assisst other lesser known tier-2 city based institutes too to ensure lesser pressure on both infrastructure as well as students.

Let this cut-off list not let the students assume that every single person walking in or out of SRCC is better than what they are. They are like you. And trust me, the life and its successes are going to be a lot more than a single admission process. And several of my batch-mates who were ex-SRCC would definitely agree.