Gud CGPA vs Gud Engineer
I read this article (mentioned on Animesh Pathak's online Journal) regarding the study correlating school performance and engineering performance. Quiet interesting.
Before I present my views I'd like to point out that the study has been done by 'IIT Home' an organisation that till last year was very well known to drop the students from their classes if they refused to quit CBSE and take admission in State Board (Maharashtra)(with whom they had made some special arrangements), coz they believed that in CBSE the student will be required to attend the classes and hence it'll hamper their JEE preps. U can see how contradictory is the study from the basic ideology of the organization.
Secondly, i think ( n all those who have been in these reputed institutes will agree) that gud CGPA doesnt necessarily guarantee a gud engineer...many of the students with average or poor CGPA are known to do very well in their engineering profession or as an entrepreneur. The profession is so dynamic in nature that just the theoretical knowledge is too weak to tackle with the actual problems. It requires much more. Before jumping to conclusions we must be clear how do we define a gud engineer. Is CGPA the only criterion?
I'd like to give u my personal example. I scored 92.2 in my high school CBSE exam with 95.66 in PCM. My CGPA can at best be defined as average. But I do not consider myself a failure as an engineer. It was just the way things are taught over here...it has been unable to get me interested. Same is the case with many more students, who in no way are intellectually inferior from the toppers. May be before passing on a judgment on the students n their abilities the administration should take some time for introspection. There is a lot more scope for improvement there. And even then if the students fail to perform, they should probably get back to them.
Before I present my views I'd like to point out that the study has been done by 'IIT Home' an organisation that till last year was very well known to drop the students from their classes if they refused to quit CBSE and take admission in State Board (Maharashtra)(with whom they had made some special arrangements), coz they believed that in CBSE the student will be required to attend the classes and hence it'll hamper their JEE preps. U can see how contradictory is the study from the basic ideology of the organization.
Secondly, i think ( n all those who have been in these reputed institutes will agree) that gud CGPA doesnt necessarily guarantee a gud engineer...many of the students with average or poor CGPA are known to do very well in their engineering profession or as an entrepreneur. The profession is so dynamic in nature that just the theoretical knowledge is too weak to tackle with the actual problems. It requires much more. Before jumping to conclusions we must be clear how do we define a gud engineer. Is CGPA the only criterion?
I'd like to give u my personal example. I scored 92.2 in my high school CBSE exam with 95.66 in PCM. My CGPA can at best be defined as average. But I do not consider myself a failure as an engineer. It was just the way things are taught over here...it has been unable to get me interested. Same is the case with many more students, who in no way are intellectually inferior from the toppers. May be before passing on a judgment on the students n their abilities the administration should take some time for introspection. There is a lot more scope for improvement there. And even then if the students fail to perform, they should probably get back to them.
...posted by Ruchika Agrawal | 10:27 PM
8 Comments:
ya ..thats very true...grades are not at all a criteria for the inteligence(engg.here).It was not dificult to get the good grades and we all know that.
Sadly, grades _should_ reflect how smart the person is, that is why they are there. Is it shameful to see that the standards of teaching have gone so low that the "report card" does not "report" anything!
Here's hoping that things improve.
Luv and Luck,
Animesh
U have admitted that ur grades are average...but U still have NOT justified that how u are a 'successful engineer'..?
firstly i was trying to show that 12th class performance n CGPA are not correlated (as indicated by IIT Home study)...n my CGPA isnt the conclusive abt my engineering career performance...i may still do well.
Surely I fully agree with your point that CGPA is no where a replica of one's performance. Any person with good GGPA might not be a good researcher and a person with a normal CGPA can sometime device such a thing that is of great importance to mankind and be recognized among people. In my opinion it takes minimum level of intellect and the devotion of the person to device something new.
I am of the opinion that the process of mapping an individual's abilities onto a number line is an absurd one.
Having said that, you seem to be making a wrong point. Your grades are not supposed to be answering larger "subjective" questions like how good an engineer/doctor/blah you are. They are supposed to ans how well you absorbed that perticular course. And sadly, from my own experiences I can say that at IT BHU, they do reflect exactly that. Most students are not facile with the subjects taught and choose to find solace by obfuscating the issue.
I do not complete place the blame on the students for that, but that's another issue.
well u seem to be biased against the people with gud CGPA (thank god i'm among the average ;-)). i feel that u although cgpa doesnt reflect the true story, u cant discredit those having gud one.
it is not necessary that they just have " theoretical knowledge". And as far as i know entaurprenership (i wud never get that spelling correct), is not a part of engineering. its a personnal quality.
Moreover, the way of evaluation depends on the institution also so u cant generalise it. Coz when i see ppl with cgpa's higher than me, most of them are definitely better than me in some aspect of engineering. Hardwork being an important area ;-)
My opinion:
You cannot generalize the relationship between GPA and mental intellect. I have seen some of the best minds at ITBHU cracking a 6-7 GPA. They didnt get good GPAs cos they werent interested in getting grades or may be the course work didn't interest them. I also saw some people cracking 10.0 Bottomline is that everyone who clears IIT-JEE is capable of getting good GPAs but in the end it is they who chose whethere to pursue that goal or not.
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