Nanditesh Nilay Column | NEET Exam Failure and Student Mental Health

Nanditesh Nilay Speaker, Ethics Trainer and Author

The result of NEET exam has come. Those who won have been congratulated. But what about those who missed it? And those who missed out on their lives while preparing for this exam? Are you missing them all too? Because those who lose – in exams or in the tests of life – have no ranking.

Vertical height is only a part of victory. The fault of those who missed out was that they did not understand that examinations do not just bring with them the syllabus of the subject. They come with all those uncertainties which can easily take away the confidence of a student. Therefore, in the echo of victory, do we first remember those who could not succeed due to any reason?

Whatever may happen, a society should not look only towards success. Yes, it is true that success has a direction and a destination, whereas failure has neither direction nor destination.

But shouldn’t we think about those who lost their lives due to their confusion, exam pressure and paper-leak trauma? The victory gets branded automatically, but what about the struggle of those who may have lost by a few percent in the game of numbers!

As always, the results of the examination find out those who pass. And why not? It is not so easy to pass NEET or JEE exam with good marks. But it is also important that the time shows a sensitive eye towards everyone. Because when the results do not come as per your wish, it seems as if life itself seems meaningless.

It seems as if fate has turned out to be kind, and the person begins to doubt his own abilities. All those years of hard work and colored copies seem useless. At that moment every purpose of life becomes meaningless. The impact of failure is fatal.

Even if you don’t get a rank, you learn a lot from failures. But in an era of winning, what can one learn from defeat? And the society also salutes the person who wins with its prejudices. In such a situation, you also think with us about those who could not pass this examination this time.

We live in a world where the ‘finishing line’ keeps moving forward and calls out loudly, ‘Run faster, faster… just keep running.’ Some people cross that line by a small difference of numbers, while others get lost in the mathematics of those numbers.

And then the passion, the dreams, the discipline, the desire to make parents proud, the hunger to win, the desire to prove something to someone, everything comes to an end in a moment, and life seems to come to a standstill for a long time.

But this also raises a question: Does life revolve only around exams, and is a person’s worth or reality determined only by the results? Then what will happen to Kant’s philosophy? Because he believed that any work should be evaluated not only by its result but also by its moral intention.

The advantage of this assessment is that amidst the noise of victory, the silence of defeat does not weigh that much. Because someone or the other at home or around them keeps saying that the student has worked very hard and success is bound to happen. Someone is going to feel that honest hard work.

The society should stand with those who are not able to pass. If the society promotes inclusiveness then there will be less sighs, less morale will be broken and the feeling of never giving up will remain a part of the society.

And we will not only listen to the struggle of all the passed students, but will also listen to those who might want to say something despite failing. This is a voice from the heart to protect that precious relationship between the reader and the writer.

(These are the author’s own views)

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