i don't think people realise the mental toll it has on students to write 2 board exams. that's basically double the anxiety, double the amount of sleepless nights and unending breakdowns, double the amount of invasive questions and doubting your marks, and double the pressure from your teachers and parents. and also double the dread you feel while waiting for your results.
"but you only have to write half the portions instead of writing the whole thing again" that doesn't make it any easier, "you have different modes of examination for both terms", which confuses the students and makes it extremely jarring to immedietaly adapt to another mode (subjective) after being thoroughly trained for most of the year to prepare for your exams in one way (objective.)
"but you have to make projects for each subject, that's fun and also a easy way to score marks" it's creatively draining and exhausting to do research and write each and every page of content in a neat manner and meet different rubrics for each fucking subject.
I'm not implying that the preceding batches have had it easier; if anything they dealt with their own impediments and it's fucked up that each batch has to go through so much experimentation and trouble because of the CBSE's preparation (or lack thereof) to deal with the pandemic. and ik i should be grateful because we atleast got to write our exams unlike the previous batch because we don't have to deal with uncertainity or jeers of people who say they've had it easier because they really fucking haven't, but what i am saying is that stop saying the system of 2 board exams is efficient and smart, because you have no fucking idea how hard it is, especially since we ('04 batch) are the first batch to have to go through with this plan and CBSE's turbulent planning and horrible experimentation, we deal with the delayed dates and changes in the QP pattern in the last minute with so so much stress and anxiety, and let's not bring up the amount of errors in the official fucking answer key.
so no, i will not be grateful and i will definitely not say that we have it the hardest, but what i am saying is try and empathise with the students for once.
