Students should be careful in choosing their stream of subjects after SSC.

This article of mine is to discuss how important it is to choose the right stream after completion of School Leaving. (SSC, ICSE, CBSE).

Two three decades ago, it was the parents who use to decide, what they want their children to become right from the day they are born.

Those days, much options were not there. The system of education had a very narrow path.
Commerce, Arts,Science, Medical, Para-medical and Engineering. No CET,CAT,All India Engineering/Architecture Entrance Entrance Examinations(AIEEE), et al. Parents want their dream to become true. As a result, without knowing the strength and weakness or interest of their children, blindly they try to seek admission in the stream wherever they want and force them to do that.

Children also were not smart enough like the ones in this era, obediently accepted those academic lines, and most of them could not cope up with the same; left in between, lost one year, and them for namesake finish their graduation.

Things are different now. After SSC, most the children know what they want to do and tell their parents to move accordingly. After Higher Secondary (HSC), they appear for all sorts of Entrance exams and choose the best available one from much wider options.

Now, according to the situation, the role of parents much change. Whenever children are unable to get admission in the stream they wanted, parents should console them, encourage them to take something similar to that. Suppose,the students do no qualify for Engineering in IIT, they should not worry at all. World is not going to end there. There are wide options in the Diploma courses also. Instead of B.E, they can do B.Tech, or Polytechnic,in the same subjects of their interest. Then add some extra specialty courses and make their studies job oriented.

You must have seen there are some doctors with MBBA Degree, who don't earn that much what para-medical professions earn these days. Same case with candidates holding B.E. degrees are not doing much better than the ones who did B.Tech, followed with Diploma in Software or Hardware Engineering courses.

Similarly there are candidates who proudly hold MBA degrees from IIMs remain unemployed with an aim to seek a suitable employment and lose interest in life itself. But there are candidates, who passed out MBAs from Private Institutions get better placement and doing well.

CONCLUSION: From the very beginning, parents should watch their children's interest, strength and weakness, and accordingly support them to take up a stream which will suit them and help them shine in their career and in life.