Academic pressure cooker – By Riddhima Sen
Academic pressure is one of the biggest factors which influences a student’s mental health and impending future in India. Starting from the hectic boards season to times of internal examinations, and remembering to memorize on the way to school in the bus overcrowded with fellow students, each and every Indian student has to go through it all. And not to forget the first and the foremost, getting a spank on the head, or getting yelled at on the day results would get released, these factors somehow end up egging on the naïve minds to score well no matter what and how.
This determination to perform really well in the upcoming examination may lead to cheating too, in cases of under revised or overlooked chapters, or difficult brain twisting questions. Cheating in elementary school and high school exams may have grave consequences in the near future. This lack of self-confidence and self-trust may lead to a lifetime of dependency on others to prove one’s worth as an efficient individual. Moreso, the added pressure furthermore dims out the students’ interest in academics since a very young and delicate age.
The process of imparting education in schools in India still, to this date, functions on the very Western model of education. The process of ‘rote learning ‘concepts, and then forgetting the concepts the very next day depicts the industrialization of the process of learning. Instead of rote learning, it is more important to understand the concept , to ease exam stress .
