My Class Tenth Board Experience

 Hello Everyone ,

Today of all days , I would like to talk about the CBSE Boards and my unique  experience with them...

Suddenly, I realise class tenth had approached and frankly , I had always made a game plan to go about the boards but never truly implemented or contemplated it up to that point. I don't want to turn this into one of those sugar coated stories where one finds himself/herself suddenly receiving excellent marks after being obsessive or not even caring for the board exams. All , I am here to do humbly is tell my side and my story in this rat race which we Indian students call - Boards . 

Many students feel regret of not being free or living their life during grade tenth but luckily, this feeling was quite minimal for me. Of course, I had my ups and downs. The three quite consequential deep regrets that I remember -

1. There was this state level elocution competition that I was selected from the school and refused to go to because it stood on the precipice of my pre-board exams. I still remember the topic - vasudhaiva kutumbakam

2. In my society ( NRI Complex ) , we have a 5 day Ganpati festival with joyous music , food , dancing and much more. I only attended two of the five days and I still regret it to this day.

3. My dad had invited me to travel to the US for a corporate trip but I had to sorrowfully refuse because it coincided 3 days with my periodic test 1 .

Coming back to the topic at hand , I thoroughly enjoyed my life during tenth. I went to each and every birthday party I was graciously invited to , went to the local cinema and mall with my friends , travelled out of state 5 times and out of country only once during my school year. I binged watch almost regularly ( It is quite my fond memory that just a day before the SST Board exam , I was binge watching ' Mamla Legal Hai ' on Netflix ) . I practiced some of my hobbies and regularly did things I liked. My most fond memory is during the boards I used to walk 2 hours in the complex where I would continuously talk with my best friends which really helped me to relax. A quite rememberable moment was during our board preparatory leaves where I constantly talked during the evenings which really helped overcome the forthcoming isolation. What I mean to convey in the end that it is true that I quite enjoyed my tenth , but as I got my result there is always a tinge of disappointment in oneself that you could have don't better ( PS: I sent my maths for re-evaluation ) .

On a daily basis , I sit in bed and think about the questions I made a blunder in or of i could have just done better, I would have gotten an extra one or two marks . At the end of day , just for the momentary boost of confidence and ego when you top your school or district , class 10th results do not really matter in the long game.  It would not have made a difference if I had even scored 99.8 or 99.6 , I would still sob over the loss of one or two marks.

However , there is one point to note that good tenth board marks does help increase your reputation not

only in your friend circle or between relatives but also for college applications and job recruiting . To be honest

class tenth boards only hold a singular purpose of just being an introduction to the world of consequences and

stress. Boards are just that , plainly an exam which we all must take at one point in time .

In a nutshell, I still regret not enjoying more in class tenth yet at the same time,  I still regret not having scored better. I really hope that I learnt something from this experience and I would considerately urge my juniors to not take stress .