Funny Emails And Funny Cell Phone Forwards and a bit of Self Improvement Tips For Smart Teenagers

If you’re a kid studying in India, I’m sure at one point you believed that if you worked hard enough, your future would be secure. The whole ordeal of carrying those heavy school books, physically and mentally, day in and day out, in such a challenging and competitive environment is no mean feat. However, you were always assured by the authorities concerned, namely your parents and your teachers that it was all worth it. What is the price to pay for sacrificing so much in the name of education?

If you are doing your +2/12^th/2^nd P.U.C and if you are from Karnataka or if you ever wanted to study in one of the colleges like M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore (more popularly known as M.S.R.I.T), then you definitely know what CET is. If in case you don’t know what CET is then, it’s a common exam you give, the outcome of which pretty much decides whether you are eligible to get into “Professional courses” or not.

As most of the people who come across this post probably already know, when students give the Common Entrance Test (CET), the ones who score higher end up in better streams such as “Electronics and Communication” (E&C) or “Computer Science” (CS) or “Information Science” (IS) whereas the low scorers get into mechanical or civil (no offence here, but that’s how it is!).

Now a general belief is that a Software Engineer fares better in his life when compared to A Civil or an Electrical Engineer. Why should one not believe, the remuneration offered in the respective industries reflects this and screams out LOUD. Once done with the respective course an E&C/ CS/ IS student will pretty sure to get placed in a good software company as a good developer in one of the respectable companies.

If you thought this was the case always, then you were wrong. The software company CTS employs people from all the streams, trains them and places them randomly in departments, so that good students (E&C/ CS/ IS) might end up in software testing (I don’t have anything against Software Testers’ but they definitely are undervalued when compared to Software developers), while the low scoring ones (like Mechanical, Civil, Electrical or even Mining) might go into software development (This is where Lady luck plays her part ).

This is a highly undesirable thing for several reasons. For instance, what is point of slogging through all your school life, score higher than other people and end up in a software testing job, after which there is no way you’re going to end up in software development? Where is the sense in randomly picking out people instead of gauging where their skills and abilities lie?

This is just a continuation of the unfairness of the education system, asking children to obey the Teacher and the Book blindly, never thinking up for him/herself, and never thinking outside the box. To add insult to injury, such a reputed software company has such a senseless selection process, sometimes working to the disadvantage of those who definitely deserve better. Unless somebody speaks out, this will continue to ruin many dreams and expectations for a very long time.