Your Boards do not matter at all.
Some of you are unfortunate enough to have parents who’ve convinced you that this is the pinnacle of your existence, so I’m here to de-influence you from that ridiculous idea.
I’m from the 2020 batch. To me, 12th grade was just my last year of school before university, not the dreaded ***Boards wala saal.*** Naturally, I didn’t do much at all. I think I took three vacations that year, one of them right in the middle of preboards lol. At one point, I’d been gone so long that one of my teachers asked my friend if I even still went to that school anymore.
Then Covid happened, the world shut down, and we ended up writing a total of three theory exams.
I did fine. I got 88.2%, which I actually had to dig up from old results for this post because that’s how little it has mattered since.
I didn’t go to some top nationally or internationally ranked university either.
I went to the one closest to me that had a law school because I wanted to be a lawyer, and my parents didn’t want me leaving home that early. Those were my only deciding factors.
Now it’s been six years, and absolutely nobody who scored higher in Boards is automatically doing better than anyone else.
What actually mattered was how I spoke, how I carried myself, the creativity I could bring, the opportunities I took in university, and the relationships I built there. Focus on those things.
I got a job right after graduation because I said yes to every opportunity university gave me. Rankings didn’t matter nearly as much as people think they do.
Improve yourself constantly. Improve your English; for some reason, a large vocabulary impresses people. Learn how to approach people. Build connections wherever you can because you genuinely have no idea who will end up where later in life.
And if you failed, that’s fine too.
People in my class failed. One of them now works at a top firm. I work at a firm where growth is fast if you’re capable; I got promoted within three months.
Everyone has different strengths. Not everybody succeeds through the same formula. Doing badly in school does not have to mean doing badly in life.
The people who keep learning, keep adapting, and know how to work with others will almost always go further than someone brilliant but impossible to be around.
At the end of the day, hiring managers are human. Yes, they want competence, but they also want someone they can actually work with. Plenty of complete idiots end up in leadership positions simply because they know how to socialise with the right people.
Good luck.