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Take it easy, government tells students ahead of MP board results
The Madhya Pradesh school education department has taken a number of measures this year to reduce student stress and ensure they take their performance in the Board exams with equanimity.
Ahead of Monday’s results for the Madhya Pradesh board exams for class 10 and class 12, it is not only the students and their parents who are keeping their fingers crossed.
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The state’s school education department which launched a multi-pronged programme a week ago to reduce pre and post result stress of students which have earlier forced unsuccessful students to run away from home, or worse, commit suicide, is hoping that its exercise will pay off.
Last year 24 students committed suicide after the board examination results were declared.
As part of the school education department’s exercise, teachers and parents were asked to show motivational videos to students and share stories of people who overcame their failures to script success stories so that they are not tense before the results and take their performance with equanimity.
“The base line is to drum into the students and also the parents that a bad result in one exam is not the end of the world,” an education department official said.
Deepak Joshi, minister of state of school education, who is actively involved in the programme said apart from the teachers, the parents too have an important role.
“The parents have been asked to take leave from their offices on Monday, when the result is announced, to be with their children for mental support. Generally, the number of suicide by students increase after the announcement of the result and parents’ support is crucial in coping with post-result depression,” the minister said.
Clinical psychologist Dr Satyakant Trivedi has echoed Joshi’s stand.
“The parents and teachers should communicate more with students before result as well as after result so that they must aware about the condition of the students. Mainly teenagers came into depression very easily so the parents should make them realise that education is not the only career option. They should talk about their strength not weakness,” Dr Trivedi said.
Over the week, various schools had been showing motivational videos and had arranged lectures by successful personalities and educationalists to guide the students though this period.
RK Reniwal, principal of Bhopal’s Model Higher Secondary School said, “We gave examples of successful and great icons who didn’t do well in the board exam or even failed in the different exams but are successful people today. The basic idea is to convey to the students that failure is just a difficult step but not end of the journey. Similarly, we have asked all the students to come to us first after the result so that we can guide them.”
The students are excited about results.
A class 12 Science (maths) student Aakash Patidar from Bhopal said, “I am excited about result and hoping for good scores.”
“I am praying to god and also nervous about my result. My family is very supportive and they asked me not to worry about marks,” said Anjali Chaudhary, a class 10 from Bhopal.
A class 12 science student Shivani Patel from Jabalpur said, “I want to score at least 75% marks so that my fees of higher education could be reimbursed under meritorious scheme of state government.”
According to Chief Minister Meritorious Scheme, state government will pay the fees of students who score more than 75% in class 12.
The students of class 10 are also waiting for the result with the excitement.
A class 10 student Jagesh Kushwaha from Gwalior said, “I am confident of scoring good marks but I am praying to find place in the merit list.”
