Is it appropriate to judge students by the marks obtained by them in their examination?

From Sushant Kulkarni

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Hare Krishna question from Sushant Kulkarni is it appropriate to judge students according to their marks answer that is not a exhaustive or accurate way of judging students but it is one way which is widely prevalent today and which is an important parameter but definitely not the decisive or the exhaustive parameter so one of the major problems with the current system of education is it has a unidimensional definition of success that means that everybody is evaluated by only one definition of success so for example students are evaluated by marks later on as people grow up then in the social circles they are evaluated often by their income levels so this is a problem serious problem because different people are of different natures a person who is of a brahmanical nature is more interested in knowledge and is not so much interested in the social things in say social status based on finances so now if such a person is pressurized into earning a lot or studying just to get marks with coming to the specific situation of the specific of the question then such a person’s capacity and inclination to study deeper and actually understand the subjects in a deep way not just in a marks grabbing way that tendency gets discouraged and sometimes quenched suppressed so that is definitely unfortunate and that should not be done so how does one avoid this by recognizing that yes in today’s socio-cultural situation marks are an important socio-economic situation socio-cultural situation marks are an important factor which determine people’s prospects for success and they are great students so we accept that as it is but whether it is for ourselves or for others we do not let these be the decisive factor so it is one factor which is quite which is which is quite important but it is not exhaustive so that good students are not good human beings and certainly good students are not necessarily good devotees so we don’t have to mix the two and we shouldn’t think that just because somebody is not able to do well in marks that person I should not try to share spirituality or I should not befriend that person we can befriend based on our psychophysical natures and our spiritual interests whoever we feel are appropriate and secondly on an individual level we should not get discouraged just because we don’t get good marks we of course should try as much as possible to get good marks and we should not use spirituality or the idea of my nature is different to justify lethargy but if despite our efforts best efforts we don’t get high marks we shouldn’t think that that is the end of the world there are many many avenues which can open up for people who recognize their talents and work accordingly so whether it’s us or others we should try to find our potential and try to find out which is the way to what is the best way to develop our potential our potential basically will be something which will be an indication or which will be in harmony which will be a demonstration of our psychophysical nature and there are many success stories in material life also of people who were not outstanding in their academics but went on to become very successful in their careers whether those careers were intellectual or non-intellectual or whatever we accept realistically in today’s situation that this is an important parameter for evaluation it’s better than the word judging is evaluation because judgment indicates a position of superiority a judge sits at a high level and judges the people so psychologically we place ourselves at a higher level when we judge others that is undesirable but we do need to recognize that different people have different natures and we ourselves have our particular strengths and weaknesses and focusing on our strengths and growing accordingly and doing honest self evaluation and honest evaluation of others can help us and others to grow properly in our lives so evaluation means it’s more objective, this is there, this is there and these are the strengths and weaknesses let me act in this particular way so we do need to have some parameters for evaluation and in today’s society marks are one but they are not the only one competence in doing certain things whether it be intellectuals, some people may not be able to get good marks but they have very good understanding subject and they may be more capable of doing research and eventually as one grows in research it doesn’t depend just on recollecting numbers and facts, it depends on developing broad understanding at a conceptual level and bringing together their understanding getting intuitions, getting insights and develop working on those insights so lot of factors are required for success in life and we shouldn’t let success in life be equated with success in getting marks but we should know that in today’s situation that is one factor also. Thank you.