Class 11th : Points to be considered before selecting stream

Hello friends,

So, you had all the hustle of late night studies, board exams pressure, parents & teachers expectations, planning how to & what to study, making timetable & living to it. There would have been a subject you liked and the one you didn’t but you had to study both with an equal preparation & concentration to get through these exams. Some of you might have done exceptionally well & some of you might not have performed as per your preparations.

But let me tell you this, this is not over yet & it will never be. The struggle for success never ends, it’s an ever lasting impression we all need to fight regularly. Success is a series of problems you overcome throughout life. Similarly class 10^th was a barrier you cleared in this marathon, but the race ahead would be more complex & will ask you to take decisions that would impact your future. As a student you need to be very careful while taking an admission into any stream in class 11^th as that would lead the direction of your success. You need to consider various points before taking this very important decision.

1.     Interest: It’s not about whether you like solving maths or not, neither it is about you hate dissection. Most of the students select a stream by elimination of options like they will take commerce because they don’t like maths or they want to take Bio because their parents want. This should never be an approach for stream selection, as this could give you a short success for 11^th & 12^th, but would make it tougher for career selection or persuasion.   

Therefore before selection of stream one should consider what he/she likes to do when they have ample time in front of them, Interest is something that not only drives an individual to pursue their dream studies but also helps them to do a job lifetime, which is a vital component in a success story. Do everything you come in contact with, participate in all the event your school organizes or inter-school events, play all the sports you could, go to your parents workplace or anyone you know, go to industrial visits, explore all the available streams & understand the opportunities it provide. This research or exploration will give you an idea where your interest lies & what you really want to pursue.

2.  Strength: No one has ever failed while playing on his/her strengths, a simple yet brilliant understanding of success formula is to find out your strength, pursue it & do something remarkable. Finding your strength as soon as possible is very important while working on your success path as every good thing you can assemble would be around your strength. For building a house, strength of base is very important. Finding out what you are ‘good’ at & working continuously to improve it to ‘better’ will let the success story.

3.     Weakness: Finding weakness is equally important as it will not only let you understand that what is not meant for you or it is something which is not worth your time & effort. Knowing your weakness also let us understand & visualize that whether working on this weakness is going to help anyhow in future or we could keep working on improving our self on our strength & take someone’s help for our weakness.

4.    Opportunities: Opportunities doesn’t come by itself banging the door of a person and asking him to open, opportunity is an integration of finding your strength, finding spaces & places you could utilize your strength, working continuously to make it better. You will definitely get thousands of opportunities in your lifetime but 999 would be a waste because you were not ready for it. So, making all the efforts to better your strength, being the best in a field with full preparation is very important to grab a chance that comes to you. Remember the movie “MS Dhoni” where he did hit a lot of sixes right where selectors were, but it took him years of practice, various downfalls, failures and persistence to be able to play in that selection match & rest is history. This is common to every success story.

Before you take admission in class 11th take a sheet of paper & fill following details:
1. Your strength as a subject
2. Your weakness as a subject
3. What are you planning to be in future & why
4. What are the fields you hold interest into
5. Are you logical or numerical (whether you like to find logics or you love numbers or arts)
6. Write in brief the type of person you are, what you like what you don't (anything that comes to your mind) finding your personality will help you to go through your selection process.
7. Try to read and understand which industries holds the future & what is being outdated.
8. Still if you are unsure, ask the expert counselors @ www.careerinnova.com  or call us at +91-9584902777