Sir,
It is that period of the year when there is joy around the engineering colleges as it is time for campus interviews and IT companies conducting online tests for selecting the best candidates. No doubt, every student aspires to get the best company and pay package and dream to achieve big in life. The issue is these interviews happened just before the 7th semester examinations and the results are also announced before the examinations begin. What I have observed is that due to these announcements, the students who get selected become so excited that they become complacent as if they have already graduated and start relaxing and stop concentrating on the upcoming exams. The students who do not succeed during this period come under peer pressure which they have difficulty in coping up with due to non-selection weighing on them during examinations. I suggest the organisers of the campus interviews to announce the selection results only after the 7th semester examinations are over to ease pressure on the students. By the time the next round of campus interviews happen, the students who would not have got selected in the first time would have overcome the pressure and be ready to face the interviews better. I feel this way the students do not lose focus on the 7th semester exams which are equally crucial for improving their average overall score.
K Ravi, E-237, GGP Colony, Bhubaneswar-751025, Mob: 9437616497
