Skip to main content

CBSE! Oh CBSE! -Manya Malhotra

CBSE ! Oh CBSE ! 

Like any other student of grade X, I was in great anticipation with regard to the board exams. Will I be prepared enough? Will I be able to crack the paper? All these questions were floating through my head. This whole year has been a blur. The immense pressure has been overwhelming. Of course there was a certain excitement attached to the whole situation as well but it was nothing compared to the overpowering feeling of fear. The moment I put my pen down after the last exam  I was filled with satisfaction , a feeling I had not experienced in a while. It felt like I had overcome a huge milestone and it gave me the straight and belief to overcome the many more to come . But this joy was short lived. Soon afterwords CBSE announced that our exam will be re-conducted because the paper has been LEAKED. After this a new set of questions were floating through my head. Who leaked the paper? Why should we pay for someone else's incompetence ? If the leak of the paper was unfair for a certain number of students then how is giving the retest fair in any way? We do not deserve this injustice after a whole years grind. With a board exam one thing you can be sure of is that it will be organised and planned. But now organised and planned are the last two adjectives any of the countless dejected class X and XII students would be using for the board.  Words being used are purely negative and some of them too harsh to be mentioned here. What's the point in conducting a re-exam , instead strengthen  your system so that other faultless students do not have to face the brunt of the carelessness and callous attitude of other students as well as certain ''leakers''. In our heart of hearts we all know what is right and what is wrong but why should the innocent suffer for the crimes (yes I will use that word) others have committed. As far as I know this was the first time in a long while when people have come out happy with their  maths papers . Leak or no leak we were all content. So please do not take this away from us. CBSE do not take this away from us. 

Comments

Cherry said…
Great work! It's the best possible explanation of our current situation!
29 March 2018 at 08:28
Unknown said…
Loved the way you have expressed yourself
29 March 2018 at 09:28
Saira said…
What Perspective!
29 March 2018 at 10:51
Anonymous said…
So well written Manya.��always impressed. Hope someone is listening.��shompa
29 March 2018 at 11:56
Aarti said…
Manya.. feel for you and all the children in your shoes...
30 March 2018 at 05:34
Unknown said…
Very well written ����
30 March 2018 at 08:53
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Real Contagion: 2 Years Of Just Perspective Special

          2 Years Of Just Perspective      After writing film reviews for a year I sought something  hard-hitting and ventured into slightly more serious territory through my blog “Just perspective” where I expressed my opinion on issues I felt strongly about. I have not written too many articles on this  blog as I wanted to keep it very personal. I only write about issues that have had a deep impact on me. Since  my blog is a passion project for me I did not want my approach towards writing it to be mechanical or monotonous and therefore I have refrained from being excessively active on it. On the two year anniversary of my blog I have written about the most relevant and talked about topic today , The COVID-19!                The Real Contagion                   So a guy in China ate a bat and now the whole world is stuck inside th...
2 comments
Read more

Sushant Singh Rajput's Tragic Death And All That Followed.....

  The Tragic Death Of Sushant Singh Rajput And All That Followed..... These past three months have been in equal parts shocking and heartbreaking. From what I saw and heard of him, Sushant Singh Rajput was a good human being with a brilliant mind. He was a passionate, hardworking actor and a curious soul. His death has impacted me more than I realised and more than I let myself realise. He visited our school a couple of years back and though I was never particularly a fan, I remember being enamoured by his charisma and unmistakable humility. The energy in the auditorium that day was palpable and he made each and every one of us swoon over his effortless charm. That day, I became a fan of the person he was.  I think people believe what they want to believe and so initially as painful as it was for me to grasp, I believed the general narrative that was being circulated in the media. I believed that there was nothing more to the incident than what was being presented....
13 comments
Read more

A Woman’s Perspective -Manya Malhotra

We broke her spirit, we pushed her down, we forced her to drown in a pool of her insecurities and what justification did we give in our defence? She is a girl , she is a liability! Who made her this way in the first place? We did, our society did, our archaic traditions and mindset did. It is said by certain people that If you give birth to a girl you must have done something terribly wrong in your past life . I say, if this is your mindset, then forget about your past life you are definitely doing  something terribly wrong in your present  life. It is a fact, a rather cliched one, that without women there will be no more births and without no more births there will be no humanity . Yet , the provider of  life, is made to feel ashamed about the fact that she is a girl/ woman/ lady/ human! On his 16th birthday he got a brand new bike and on her 16th birthday she got a surprise visit from her would be in laws. On his 18th birthday he was granted his freedom and on he...
5 comments
Read more