Qualifications!

 The C.A. results are out. Those who cleared both the groups sure deserve all the praise that comes their way. As per the need of the country, per annum, a certain quota of candidates is allowed to clear the exam  apparently. Creditable success indeed!

Does anyone know of the NET exam that such students' teachers pass? The passing percentage is still lower in this national level test. I would not know of commerce subjects. As far as English goes, the passing percentage is roughly 4%. The examination never happens consistently every year either. Of the four per cent candidates who clear the exam at the national level, literally a handful, the top few to be counted on finger tips, get the JRF/SRF. 

Yet nobody ever celebrates this grand success. Unfortunately, wrong people who have the right connections and/or carry money bags manage to land jobs, and, it is darkly hinted, use the same tricks much later to get themselves  the comparatively much easier, SET, qualifications. 

Unfortunately, often students know such inside stories, too. They hardly respect such teachers. Once the threshold is thus lowered, the respect for genuine, sincere teachers gets impure, too. 

In certain professions, such base of respect is indeed necessary. The doctor who looks after the body and the teacher who cares for the mind/soul of a person are two such professions. Unlucky it is, however, that the respect quotient is lowest in these holiest professions. With the advent of the AI, hope Devi Saraswati would guide the pitiful souls, regarding how to ret(r)ain the respect of students when most all 'janta' thinks that the 'guides' provide all solutions, and the Google Guru is the ultimate pandit! Long live the respect for teachers!

Pratima@ i am indeed rather happy that I could make my parents proud by clearing the NET(Lit.) Test twice, with the JRF/SRF. Those days, unlike now, and, in fact, since 2000, the test was not an MCQ, and hence was that much tougher to clear/crack!