Enginnering Education and English

The first year of engineering passed with without any major incidence to mention in personal or academic life with happy note, that both of us Ashok and me passed the examination with flying colors.In the five years integrated course of engineering in MP that time it was a rule that if a student does not clear the first year of engineering in three attempts he is debarred to get admission anywhere in M.P. in future that made the student concentrate on the studies.It was astonishing that students who had very high ranking in the admission merit list started failing in exams, the main reasons was medium of education Mostly students came from Hindi medium schools English was a subject which was not given its due attention in the student lives my those students and engineering being the whole English medium education, these students found it difficult to cope up with. We had advantage over such student because of our good knowledge of the language. This knowledge pays rich dividends even on today! Continued in next blog.