A score of over 90 pass percentage : Taking the first big step
- The Sangai Express Editorial :: May 13, 2025 -

A slight dip from the previous year of 93.03 pass percentage at 91.37 pass percentage, but the showing of the young boys and girls is better than good.

A percentage of 91.37 brackets the overall showing of the students in the Outstanding according to the grading system worked out by the Board of Secondary Education, Manipur.

No one will complain with the grading system in place of the earlier marks given, though many may still be coming to terms with the new arrangement which is already in its second year.

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has been doing this for the last many years underlining the point that there is not much to differentiate between a student who has scored 91 percent and another who has scored 92 or 93 or 94 percent.

More changes can be expected in the coming years, especially in the back-drop of the New Education Policy and Manipur needs to gear up for this and take along not only the students and officials manning BOSEM and the Education Department, but also the different schools and institutions.

Changes, especially with ones pertaining to the education sector must come after minute deliberations and after days of consultations with all the experts and schools and educational institutions must be primed to go along with the changes that will come with the passage of time.

What was thought relevant 20 or even 10 years back may not be the case now, but yet at the same time, some fundamentals will remain unchanged.

So change must come with the knowledge that it has to go along with features that cannot or should not be changed, just for the sake of changing.

So over 33 thousand students have crossed the Class X stage and all will be taking the next big step towards what they would like to do, that is start exploring which field suits them and what they should concentrate on.

The first step obviously would be to zero in on the institution, which they think can best mould them.

This is where the counsel, advice and suggestions of parents, elders of the family and teachers become indispensable.

The interesting question is whether parents and elders of the family are well placed to be in the position to give the correct or right suggestions, suggestions which seek to build on the strength of the young students or go with what is thought to be more acceptable in the eyes and perceptions of others!

This is where career counselling becomes important and ought to be made a part of the curriculum. 'After 10th what?' is the question that should be dealt with the seriousness it deserves, for it is after this stage that students will have to opt for the stream of their choice, a choice that will determine to a large extent on what they would like to become later in life.

Class X results out and while the showing of the young students is appreciable and definitely falls within the Outstanding category as worked out by BOSEM, it is interesting to see some of the more well known schools rushing in to attract who they think are deserving to be in their school.

Nothing wrong in schools vying to get the attention of the top notch performers in the Class X examination and the freebies put on display to get the attention of the students must have registered in the consciousness of parents and the guardians of the young students.

Free admission, free tuition, free transportation, free text book and stationery are some of.the freebies put on display and while it is perfectly understandable for the different private schools to eye the top notch performing students, it would help all if only parents do their home work and see which school would suit their children best.

For instance why not check if any of the top notch schools have been able to groom a student so much so that she has shown a marked improvement after being admitted in the said school ?

Study a school to see if it has been able to make an average performer in the Class X stage become a top notch student in the Class XII stage.

This is one point parents and elders of the family should seriously study.