How Do Exams Help in Personality Development?

“Dear Exams, please be nice.”

-Students

Exam – a source of terror for most students. If I am being honest, I have often flooded my house with tears before exams (especially before Chemistry 😶).

It was not until recently that I realised that exams are not supposed to be a burden, but rather a medium to enhance our personal growth.

I know what you all are thinking: “Really Tisha? Medium of personal growth? Pray tell, how?”

And that’s what I am going to answer today. How do exams enhance our personal growth?

First off, when I say exams, I do not just mean marks; I also mean the preparation that goes behind exams.

Memory Retention

Exams are a way to help the horizons of our brains widen. They prove to be a mean through which our mind understands to store and retain data as and when required.

Just imagine, when you were in nursery, how much problem you had in remembering your ABC’s, and now? They are on your tips!

Thus, exams help you use your brain better!

What’s next?

Competitive Streak & Ability to Work Under Pressure

Believe it or not, this world is a cut-throat race and anyone who falls behind is out.

Exams are a way to help you get used to the ways of the world and not face problem later in your lives. Now, that we have been giving exams since our childhood, we know what to expect under dire pressure and are ready to take on whatever the world throws at us.

One can never be completely ready for what life gives us, but haven’t we all had HOTs, twisted, and out-of-syllabus questions before? If we can pass those, I am sure we can handle the question paper which life hands us out.

Managing Time

Anyone who has ever given exams honestly knows the value of time management. Why do you think we, Indians, are so important throughout the world? Our syllabus has tuned our brains to know the true meaning of time management.

Be it Social Science, Math, or English, we know how to deal with them and how to spend time in a way where we can cover the whole syllabus.

Wow, it seems we have superpowers, doesn’t it?

Exam is a challenge and as it is rightly said, “Challenges don’t come to break you, but to make you realise your true potential.”

Exams seem scary, but they do manage to prepare us for the future, for the outside world. I know the disappointment one feels when we don’t get the marks we tried to achieve, but there is only two ways you can take this –

• Study harder to make your dreams come true or

• Give up.

The choice will always remain yours.

Now, remember Marks Are Not Your Identity.

Exams are just a catalyst in your personal growth, they do not identify you as a person.

That being said, all the best for your rest of the exams!!!

-Written and edited by Tisha Mazumdar [Head Girl]

Date – 18 July 2021