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Results: their means and value

Well, i know that this is an age old topic to write on and definitely not something i should be writing about now, especially after passing out of college with every thing intact. But, why i still write on this has two simple reasons, a) the bigger exams of life (and not the metaphorical ones) will begin after college gets over and b) age old results have a habit of coming back into our lives time and again and biting us in the ass. The university results of my junior batch came out today. And to say the least it was carnage. Failure has a bad of showing us things, true things nonetheless and today was no different. The tension before the results, the shock while reviewing it and the dismay after the story sinks in. Most people deal with it when they think of the ways to fix it. But keep this in mind, once its broken you cannot fix it. All you can do is to get another chance at it, but the failure will last.  It never goes. While this might seem like a pessimists account of things, but trust me this is more of a compendium of real situations and troubles. I have seen the sorry state with which people are rejected in job interviews, just because they had one failed paper in this academic records, even though he cleared it. I have then seen those people covering up such unfavorings, which work against them, even in places where such things do not matter. I have seen people passing out of college only to come back  and clear a few papers which could not be cleared with the stipulated time. I have seen people shattered because their graduation marks came back to haunt them when it came to getting an interview call from the best management institutes of the country. And all of this i have seen happening again and again and again, for nearly five years now. All this has led to a very incorrect conception amongst most people. The misconception is that, marks are more important than anything else. How wrong could the world be! Sorry folks. Marks or results are only a barometer by which you estimates as to how good you are or can be when it comes to on ground work. The real deal that most employees or schools are looking for is that substance. Just because you do not have the results to show it, does not mean that you do not have it at all. It gets a little tougher for you to prove your abilities and substance. In fact a lot tougher, and maybe that is why marks and results at school and college become so very important.  Now because of this exact factor, people will do anything to meet the end of good marks at any cost and in any manner. They, then do not take more the difficult and rewarding path of reforming their substance and hence getting the right marks. But rather look at getting the results with or without the substance. The whole process of so called all-round development comes from that path. When you go through difficult situations and surpass them, you undergo major changes at a very basic level. You start seeing things clearly. You are likely to understand situations better. And you will surely start appreciating the other side of story. All this goes amiss, when you start looking at short cuts to getting results. Maybe that is why people now need separate courses in personality development and the likes. It is not magic you know. It is diligence, faith and pure persistence. And yes, it is tough. So for those who brag about graduation, specifically engineering,  being so very simple and breeze-like, know this: you have either not done your graduation properly or, you are the next genius.