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सुरुवातको एउटा अन्त्य (The end of the beginning)

सिए. उमेश राज पाण्डेय ( तश्विर : लेखकको फेसबुकबाट)

उमेश राज पाण्डेय आफ्नो ब्लगमा लेख्छन्, “बिधार्थी किन फेल भैरहेछन्  ? अबस्य पनि कारण बिधार्थी आफैं हुन् …तर म भन्न सक्छु ६०% बिधार्थीको कमजोरी हो भने ४०% इन्स्टिच्युटले दिएको ‘प्रेसर’ हो . यहाँ सबै ‘ट्यालेन्ट’ नै हुन्छन तर सिए त्यसले उतिर्ण गर्छ जसले ‘प्रेसर’लाइ ब्यबस्थापन गर्न सक्छ । उनको ब्लगबाट साभार गरिएको लेख यस प्रकार छ

It
was not after 11.15 am on December 4, my phone beeped while I was at a
client’s meeting- it displayed, “…., if u re free, may I call you?”. It
was an unexpected message in my inbox from one of my dedicated students,
suddenly I realized its not more than 1 hr and 45 minutes, the student
is out of the exam hall and it was obvious to figure out that the exam
is doomed….

In
the evening, while I took out my phone from pocket to watch the time,
there was a missed call from another student, though that was actually
an accidental one. I asked about the exam she sat the day and the answer
was no good.
A few days ago, I met one of the best students who was chasing her dreams away from this arithmetic and numerical world.
Not before 3 and half months ago, I had a fight with one of my favorites after the consequence of shattered dreams!!
In
these years, many aspired energetic ones have enrolled Chartered
Accountancy to pursue a lucrative and reputed future. Golden letters are
coloring the wall of newspaper and honey tongues have been transmitted
via FMs to attract many brains in this field and for most of them- it
has become the end of the beginning and the beginning of endless
pessimism and pressure.
Many
youths have forsaken their joyful youth for the sake of a prefix or a
suffix in their name. A lot of motivated aspirants have given up their
motivation and many talents have accepted the continuous failures in the
name of dream and success. Chartered Accountancy has become the
toughest course to complete, and every time the students are cursed for
the failure.
Sometimes
I wonder looking at the enthusiasm of young minds to achieve the goal
of being called a CA, and sometimes I feel low seeing their cherishing
moment and figuring out the possible outcomes once they are really
tested.
There
is a slogan- try and try and try, until you succeed. But how much of
your potential youths you use to memorize the rules of accounting,
taxation, law and auditing- the formulas of finance and the texts of
theories to become servant of monotony, though the sky is the limit!!
When
I see the persons embracing some sort of failures, facing the failing
marks for the first time even when they were toppers in school/college
and were highly regarded- I just can’t bear the pain they are required
to withstand. Yet, the Institutes turns the finger towards them and
assumes no responsibility for the waste of time of creative minds and
yet, they say they are the responsible pillar of the country.
Yes…
this is the real problem. Most of many students fail. The failure ratio
is much higher compared to other courses as the highly regarded one
joins CA, who otherwise can be toppers of colleges and universities. Why
is this happening?
Obviously,
this happened because of the students themselves. I can assign 60% to
students, and 40% to the pressure created by the Institute. Everyone is
talented here but very little achieves the success. The key factor to
success is the person’s capability to manage pressure.
Joining
CA is end of the beginning; the end of beginning of joyful college life
where you can flirt, chat, roam around, bunk, etc. You cannot enjoy
college life, as it’s a distant learning module and there are only
coaching classes not the regular academic type classes.
Its
the end of beginning of selective study. Unlike regular university
courses, you should study thoroughly all the chapters and study for
excellence not only for the exams. No matter what marks you obtain- the %
above 50% is worthless. That only is worthy  if you can grab some
medals.
Its
the end of beginning of enjoying regular social life. If you desire to
enjoy your social life- you need to be ready for pessimistic outcome in
result. The syllabus is so bulky that you can’t manage enough time to
enjoy the rituals and yet, you obtain good result.
Its
the end of the beginning of creative thinking. You should be rule based
and you should read principles. You should study laws, standards and
theories. If you think you can use creativity- the only option is to be
creative in memorizing. Your examiners are so traditional that they
award more marks for the section and paragraph numbers, not only for
right interpretation, means they award marks to your memory not for the
creativity to remember. If you think, you can pass the exam without
detailed knowledge and “aaye aap. gaye jhataro” type- you are wrong.
Your examiner spend plenty of times to check your paper. Your examiner
tries to understand your psychological state and tries to figure out
whether you really know it or spilling some words out of the blues. They
desire a concrete opinion in your answer based on the analysis of facts
of questions and the Indian and Nepalese CA questions require you to
assume more about what the question might have asked rather than giving a
concrete answer. In Nepal, questions are copied from India and the
smarter question setter applies the smartness to erase some sentences
from the middle of the question, seeks an assumption from student to
answer and award more marks to students identifying that erased sentence
and writing an assumption on that.
Its
the end of the beginning of expecting the services for what you have
paid. Your Institutes collects lots of money from you, in the name of
examination, registration, etc. and provides you some study material-
takes 2/3 mocks tests which is ridiculous and which does not add value
to students- and that’s it! Your Institute increases fee in regular
interval of three years with a clear explanation that when a student can
pay this much for coaching and why can’t for the Institute itself? And,
yet again they charge some 100 rupees per class in the name of crash
course which is irrelevant for final examination. Yeah, they publish
Revision Test Papers just before 15 days of Examination; no one knows
what the purpose of that publication at the late hour of exam and the
RTPs have nothing to link with the pattern of final question setting. Be
clear your question setter and RTP writer is different, and there is
always autonomy to resource person for each task awarded to them except
for paper checking.
But,
CA is not only the end of the beginning- its the beginning of joyful
life if you can manage pressure, leave skipping chapters and study for
the excellence rather than examination. Your Institute is improving and
the world is changing. With the changing world, the static chartered
accountants are becoming vibrant, and the concerns of the future
chartered accountants have become the issues of current chartered
accountants.
You
should understand that there are many ways to pass CA if you don’t want
to make it the end of the beginning. What matters here is whether you
are a CA or not, no matter how many attempts you required to achieve. If
you look into the most successful CA now, they have become CA after a
lot of attempts, compromising comforts and accepting pressures and
challenges. So, at the end what I want to mention is though its end of
the beginning, with the emerging competition and surfacing
globalization, your institute has started thinking of you and you should
never give up if you really want to catch the fireball.
#Enjoy-CA 
 सिए उमेश राज पाण्डेयको ब्लग बाट साभार 

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