It was yet another boring, monotonous and tiresome journey from Roorkee to Dehradun (after reaching where I could proudly announce to my friends by replacing my Orkut tag line as “Back Home” or Facebook status message as “Abhishek is back home”. I always feel proud in doing that. Dunno why?). The only thing to enjoy during the journey was a new stock of lovely songs I was listening to. Papa Roach, Led Zepellin and Kyle Minogue entertaining me all the way with their sweet voices (does Papa has a sweet voice anyways?). Indeed this time I wasn’t alone, I came with a brand new title (a title which I can neither be proud of nor be ashamed of). I have added yet another feather to my cap by entering into the Royale Club of “Seven Pointers”. Ya people I am indeed a “Seven Point Someone” (anyone remember Five Point Someone?). Huh! The first reaction of my dad on this was – “Great going son!” (I am still trying to search out for the hidden truth in this statement. Was this a sarcastical one or did he really appreciate me for being a member of that Club?). The day I’ll unveil this secret, I would be up with yet another blog post mentioning that. What else can I do except this?
The things I have been relishing at my home include the food (God save us from the Mess Food which we have been tolerating for last one semester!), and the ride on my wonderful Blue Coloured stylish, attractive, scintillating, lustrous and Metallic "Honda Activa". Compare a ride on a motor-driven Honda Vehicle on the awesome streets of Dehradun to a ride on a Pre-Historic times Vehicle, called a Bicycle in the 365 acres of IIT Roorkee campus and the Civil Lines nearby! For one you will have to burn your thousands of calories and for the other you just need few litres of petrol! Anyways both have their pros and cons! So no need of getting into that debate. The thing which needs this debatable approach is the concept of relative grading in Colleges.
One feature of IIT that I dislike is the concept of grading. CGPA ("Cumulative Grade Point Average") is what it is. The first time I heard about it was through Chetan Bhagat’s novel “Five Point Someone” (actually he wrote it for people like us. . .lol). That time I wasn’t aware of the way it is calculated. It has got lots of Mathematics involved in it. Anyways I learned this Mathematics in my first sem and deduced that it is one of the worst way to judge a pupil’s abilities. A pupil getting a 74 on 100 is equally brilliant to another one getting a 74.5 (0.5 mark cant differentiate their intellect. Can it?). However if judging according to the grading terminology, a 74.5 one gets a Grade A+, and the 74 one gets a Grade A. Now lets talk a bit Mathematics involved in it. So if the course is a 5 Credit Course, the one lagging the other by half a mark will lag by 0.21 (if the total credits are 24 for the sem). So if one become an 8 pointer the other is destined for becoming a 7 point something persona. And ya this categorization does become a lot of headache when you just miss out by a small amount in fulfilling the eligibility requirements for any organization or whatsoever. Hence you are literally robbed by this CGPA concept. However they say everything in this IIT system depends upon your CGPA. Now I say or rather abbreviate CGPA in my own terms, as :
“Courteously Grinding Pupil’s Aspirations.”
The things I have been relishing at my home include the food (God save us from the Mess Food which we have been tolerating for last one semester!), and the ride on my wonderful Blue Coloured stylish, attractive, scintillating, lustrous and Metallic "Honda Activa". Compare a ride on a motor-driven Honda Vehicle on the awesome streets of Dehradun to a ride on a Pre-Historic times Vehicle, called a Bicycle in the 365 acres of IIT Roorkee campus and the Civil Lines nearby! For one you will have to burn your thousands of calories and for the other you just need few litres of petrol! Anyways both have their pros and cons! So no need of getting into that debate. The thing which needs this debatable approach is the concept of relative grading in Colleges.
One feature of IIT that I dislike is the concept of grading. CGPA ("Cumulative Grade Point Average") is what it is. The first time I heard about it was through Chetan Bhagat’s novel “Five Point Someone” (actually he wrote it for people like us. . .lol). That time I wasn’t aware of the way it is calculated. It has got lots of Mathematics involved in it. Anyways I learned this Mathematics in my first sem and deduced that it is one of the worst way to judge a pupil’s abilities. A pupil getting a 74 on 100 is equally brilliant to another one getting a 74.5 (0.5 mark cant differentiate their intellect. Can it?). However if judging according to the grading terminology, a 74.5 one gets a Grade A+, and the 74 one gets a Grade A. Now lets talk a bit Mathematics involved in it. So if the course is a 5 Credit Course, the one lagging the other by half a mark will lag by 0.21 (if the total credits are 24 for the sem). So if one become an 8 pointer the other is destined for becoming a 7 point something persona. And ya this categorization does become a lot of headache when you just miss out by a small amount in fulfilling the eligibility requirements for any organization or whatsoever. Hence you are literally robbed by this CGPA concept. However they say everything in this IIT system depends upon your CGPA. Now I say or rather abbreviate CGPA in my own terms, as :
“Courteously Grinding Pupil’s Aspirations.”
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