A Joint, More Intoxicating than Weed
What Does Joint Entrance Examination Mean?
In India, Joint Entrance Examination is synonymous to inevitability. If the faintest trait of studiousness is visible in you (visible only to the parents, generally) then it is highly likely that you are going to take up a science stream in high school, and a science student who has not sat for the Joint Entrance Examination, is a rare sight.
JEE is the channel through which you have to pass, to end up in an engineering or medical college. And these two courses are the most sought after ones in this country. Most probably because there lies a vague promise of large salaried job with low educational tension in them. So, every science student in this country study their brains out for two years to get into a college, where they do not have to study any more. Where the system itself will carry them inside the cubicle of a well-paid job.
My Interactions with the Exam
Recently, I took JEE. When I was younger, I aspired to be one of those rare science students who did not sit for the exam. But I failed to refrain myself from taking the test. But, I am happy to get it over with. Living with the thought of JEE being round the corner is sufficiently suffocating. In spite of the fact that the exam does not particularly attract me, a desire to crack it is inevitable. Thankfully, the load has escaped my shoulders and now, I can start living once again!
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| An attempt to draw myself in my JEE question paper (the eyes do not look like mine at all). |
Since it is Over
After JEE, begins a new life. One once again starts recalling the things he/she likes, his/her passions.
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| My new life includes the new laptop I bought. |
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| And my violin, which I am beginning to learn. |
Awakened, I am, with a hope of light. And walk, I will, on the walk of life (and as far from JEE as I can)!
