WHY NEET ONLY?
By: MUDASIR ALI
In the beginning, some students may have strong penchant towards the medical field and some may not and they obviously choose different discipline to pursue their career. The choice is not confined to one stream only as everyone has to decide individually whether entering into the medical field or pursuing any other course. It is certainly believed that choosing right career in one’s life is the half success. From the past couple of years, our school going students have got too much obsessed with the top level exams particularly NEET that I feel tremendously appreciable and worthy.
Many choose medical field because some of their relatives are already working as doctors and they receive guidance at early stage and gradually excel in the way. We can’t deny this fact that each stream has its own scope and value but more importantly what matters is the Subject of interest which takes our students into different streams.
The current statistics show an upward graph for the NEET aspiration which is growing increasingly among our students. In present time, parents also want their children to qualify NEET exam as others do. If X’s son qualifies this prestigious exam in my village, why not mine! My son or daughter has to qualify the same. Parents should have to care for their children in the career making, not to impose anything forcibly upon them. We are quite familiar with the different realms of knowledge and fields through information and technology but some acts are very strange in some crucial areas that would backlash only.
The NEET is considered the second toughest exam after UPSC and lakhs of aspirants appear in the test all over India. This exam is conducted by NTA annually at national level. Many aspirants clear this exam in first attempt and some remained and subsequently cross the line in second or third attempt. This exam in itself is so worthy and has a great significance when compared to other exams. It is not so easy to crack in first attempt but it takes years of hard work to cross the benchmark. Why we become so selective in some cases?
I don’t know which philosophy compels us to exaggerate beyond the limit. Interest in the profession is not artificially carved out from anything but it is naturally placed in everyone. One can only strengthen his/her weaknesses but not interest. Isn’t something goes wrong in the system? Or it has become a compulsion now that our children will have to become doctors only. If doctor profession is the only perfect one, who will teach our kids tomorrow in schools? Each profession evolve from teachers as they mould our children and guide them at school level but still the choice is theirs what they want to become tomorrow.
Professions should be realistically choice based that eventually bear sweet fruits. Everyone has self-interest for entering into the profession which suits better and he/she becomes quite successful in that. To become a doctor is not anything special but to choose this profession due to some compulsions is a lethal damage to the aspirations of our children.
Some are positively interested in other fields but the fixed criterion on behalf of family derails them from the field they want to pursue. Let our children decide what they want to become in future, there is no any dearth of profession in our country and each profession is suitably valued and managed by reflecting its perfect image and highness. Our moral values have got altered somewhere owing to few factors that have generated this negative cycle in us.
We made things so complex to think upon them rationally and socially and unable to decide what is good for our children. Choice based profession leverages your potential gradually. Whichever profession you choose remains a name only until you are naturally interested in it. To finish it with this line; let our children be given a free choice what they want to become doctors, engineers, teachers, or any. The only aim is to serve the society.
The writer is a teacher by profession. Email ID: – [email protected]
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