When I was young I was highly active. I would get
time to sing, dance, play games and eat at regular intervals. But during the
schooling days all I did was study. I lived in fear each day because I would get negative emotions like “What if I fail a whole
year when I don’t do well in my
exams?” I would get nightmarish dreams of I not being able to complete my exam papers on time.
My memory was sharp when I was a child, but due to repeated mugging up of the answers which most of the time I would not even understand I under
stress was becoming forgetful.
I would re-read every single answer thousands of times fearing I might forget it when I sit for writing the exam.
During my SSC
board Exam year I almost did no extra curricular activities. My only focus in life then was to mug up the whole syllabus and pen it down quickly during exams.
When my SSC board exams got over I learnt to de-stress myself by walking in the mornings and in the evenings. I was released from lots of tensions and fears of exams during my summer vacations then.
I successfully cleared my 10th board exams. But when I look back at those years of schooling I realize now that I had shunned the creative me due to the exam pressure. I wish Education Board changes to having no failing system at all. With this change the health hazards that occur on students will reduce tremendously and no student will even dream of committing suicide.
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