Thank you guys
I do know that 12th marks don't matter much today, but still, who would give a seat, even paid, to a 55 percent scorer?
It's all a matter of luck and destiny in the end.....I know a girl who had 51% in 10th and 57% in 12th (both ICSE) and horrendous marks in entrance exams who paid a small fortune to get an engineering seat. She is now a very good student in my class and constantly gets decent marks. Not a topper by any means, but does better than 60% of the class and believe me when I say hers is the lowest 10th and 12th score in my class.
For that matter, my score was in the 70s and even that is low. My 70s score was the 4th lowest 12th score in my engineering class, but even so I consistently came within the top 10 ranks in my branch amongst nearly 85 students (rarely, top 5).
The one thing I learnt from doing my degree is that scores mean next to nothing, knowledge matters more. Even when people try to cut off on 10th and 12th score, I have found that they do not say no to someone who aces the interview. In the end the only thing that matters is what you took inside your head as part of your education rather than the number on the marklist.
Coming from someone who's been on all sides of the spectrum - good scoring, bad scoring and average scoring, I should know better what marks actually mean. Most people have been consistently good, bad or average scorers throughout their life, so they wouldn't know what the other side feels like. I've been there and done that, I know better, enough to know that marks are misleading enough that you'd miss out on a diamond because it doesn't shine the way some stones do. This includes entrance exam marks, and both your board and entrance exams are important because they test different aspects of your brain (and board exam does not mean or emphasize rote learning but most board exams are kept easy enough that you can pass by rote)
My advice to students is very simple: Don't sweat it and make the best of what you got. If you have the talent and the skills, you will get what you are destined for, irrespective of what external factors may say. Enjoy your life a little, things are getting too tough at your age and it's never the same afterwards. Things start changing once you get into college and you will need to work harder, so keep your chin up and never get worked up over results of some exam.
