Teaching - Shud it be a Choice or a Chance!?!?!

This is very emotional moment of my life. In fact emotional not about my personal life but about the Teaching system !!Imagine how much it had disturbed me to speak like this.
This moment, I feel the necessity for a perfect teacher .
Who is a teacher? I read one small poem that my sister wrote during our childhood.
A teacher tells,
An average teacher explains and
A good teacher demonstrates
A great teacher inspires……
A teacher should carry a positive energy with him/her. Its inherent within them. Its not the artificial one. (S)he should be able to influence(but not convincing) the students with that power or positive energy. I can also say they should make us realize the value of the subject what they teach !! In such case there exists no compulsions for students , they obviously pay attention and show interest in the class. That’s a perfect teacher.

Now I understand the case,when lakhs of students study/appear for competitive exams , why only few are making it to IITs or IIMs or what so ever !! I agree, it mostly depends on students but at the same time the TEACHER too. To be significant… it’s the teacher’s capability of making the student pay 101% attention to/in his class.
We hardly n rarely get such teachers !!

Teaching is not just a profession; it’s a greatest boon on earth. It’s a responsibility given to a person. It is not mere a profession of earning money, it should be with PASSION.
Passion, not to become HOD or PhD scholar but to give the students…THE BEST !! What you learnt and what you teach is vital!!

Its how much students understand the subject because of the lecture. I mean it: SUBJECT or the real content !!
Since last 20 years I have seen few professors/teachers of that sort. RKP in TIME Hyd is one among them.

Bad examples:
Doing a PhD or doing numerous Research papers won’t make one a good professor. And that is the bloody criterion if one considers it as BENCHMARK!

I experienced a horrible response recently, from a Professor who performs so badly. (S)he is not bothered about how (s)he teaches. When we give her/him a feedback instead of correcting him/herself, says: “I know how to get better appraisal. I will do some more research papers and will compensate it”.
What the **** is this??? Can we expect this kind of response from a so called professor?? Is this what we expect from PROFESSORS??
Another one says in a very first class: “I’m here for money; you are here for MBA degree. University provides you degree and salary to us.”
Though it is the ultimate objective of either party, speaking like this demotivates the students. This is not expected from a professor, having so many years of Exp.
Are these people our professors??? Are these the people who guide and lay path for students!?!?!

This is what makes the f***ing difference between Prestigious institutes and name sake B Schools.
Teaching MBA won’t make every college a B-SCHOOL. It’s the quality of professors and not the quantity of PhD holders. I mean IT!! QUALITY!!!!
I have not met such a professor so far in ***BS. Hope I’ll see one so soon..

Teaching should be by choice, not by chance!! Only the REAL TEACHERS emerge!!
Hence I wish u to be such REAL teacher. Bring out that passion from with in you, if u want to be such teacher, if u want to make that positive impact on many lives !!
This is what I believe. 

Signing off…nachiketa@spm.
Please add your comments below.

Macro n Micro Economics !!

Hi, this is the summary of the article I read in ET dated Oct 22, 2010. Nothing in this is manipulated. Its an excerpt from the article.

The real macro economic success of this phase of India's reform process has been increase in our savings rate. This has resulted in higher investment rate. That led to higher level of GDP growth, which is a good indicator for growth of National Economy !!
The three components of savings rate: household, Corporate and Public Sector savings.
Corporate savings contributed alot from 4% to 10% of GDP.
So what made this corporate savings contribute this much??
1. Overall Profitability : PAT/Sales increased.
2.At the same time companies decreased the dividend rate from half of profits.
3. Hence Profitability doubled as they distributed less of their profits.
4. This led to double of their savings.

There is an other factor for this.
It is increase in Corporate Tax collection. The increased direct tax collection from corporate sectors. This only contributed 10.7% of GDP. (It was 8.7%)

Liberalisation of Indian economy has led to the Corporatesector becoming a much more significant engine of the improving Indian Story.
The dramatical improvement of the Corporate Performance is largely because of Micro Reforms.
1. Take the case of Telecom. It contributed $50 B USD. This itself contributed 5% to India's GDP.
2.This is largely because of new telecom policy 1999.
3.Take the case of Power. Higher contributions of Prvate sectors will address India's power shortages.
4. The case of better roads and ports made efficient and faster transportation possible for domestic market conditions as well as exports.

Yet there is one more Indian School of thought that believes what has contributed to this growth is the growing importance of stock market s in promoters’ thought process.
The upfront value creation by these people increases the profitability and hence Cash is kept in business as it leads to better upfront value creation !
From all these we can safely say that there have been actual performance improvements caused by imprvmt in overall operating environment in different various sectors.
Sectors lik Faster infrastructure build out, Lower Inflation and interest rates, Inprovemnts in agriculture, economic pass in rural areas, education, vocational training,health, labor reforms,debt markets, water management, fiscal policy etc.

Such micro reforms on sector to sector basis is need to go on to ensure our MACRO ECONOMIC position continues to stay healthy to support India’s growth aspirations.

nachiketa !!
Source: Economic Times , Oct 22,2010

CATastrophe 2009

Finally the D-day(doomsday) has come where its score gonna be deciding factor for so many people like me ! CAT--which is almost loved as equal as one's own family member has given most of the people, an unsatisfactory experience.
For the first time in its history IIMs have introduced this Online. Most of the CAT aspirants call it The Indianized GMAT or The desi version of GRE because of the glitches n troubles it gave. Its not 1 or 2 but its hundreds of students who are/were disappointed.We can find number of forums that are filled with sad stories of students (which are not stories in fact!!!)
We find a mixed responses from students where most of those are against Online pattern. Few are benefited, yet many are effected!

Some institues have written openly to IIMs about this (http://www.time4education.com/open_letter_IIMs.htm) as they have taken their responsibilty for the students !

Its very much true that during the period of evolution some people get effected ! Its law of nature. Unfortunately here its our turn to be the victims. But we cant stop the development process for which it is our Journey! Ultimately we need to give a new facet to this admission process.
But IIMs should have done this experiment on specimens instead of performing it lively. What I mean is they could have conducted some demo tests. Depending on the demo tests across the contry for a brief period of 3-5months they could have finalized the Online avatar of CAT. Its true that they will have to spend a lot of money even for that. But atleast once they should have to bear these expenses on their own. They could save the students..which inturn..their TIME and MONEY ! Its all the initial cost that is in huge amounts.Any how IIMs can make money as it has no less than 2 Lakhs of CAT takers every year !

Its just an exam for a PROCTOR who conducts the test every day, after all it is his job. But for an MBA aspirant, its LIFE ! Almost 5months-10months-2years-4 years !! The student cant take it as easy as the invigilator say 'Ur slot is not available, better luck next time!' or 'Ur answers are not captured, better luck next time!'

Inpite of these troubles IIMs still repeats same decission about continuing the Online tests in subsequent years too. (http://ibnlive.in.com/news/sorry-for-the-mess-but-online-cat-stays-panel/106336-3.html?from=tn?from=imalerts). Hence dont even think that CAT 09 might be cancelled.We are all the victims during this evolution process !

I dont say either to support or to strike back at IIMs(which is of no use). I want you to understand the phase we are in. (Even am a student, a CAT aspirant since 4 years.)
We are in pure trasformational era of CAT, the most reverred exam in India, exam for the Indian MBA!!

Brooding over the past will not fetch us anything as we are the least heard to !

Who could have done well, this year's CAT ??
I can say a PUC passed out or a +2 passed out who is good at maths and above average in English whose basics are at his tongue tips n fingure tips, can easily pass it. It doesnt need hard work rather it needs smart work ! Only smart work. No hasty calculations, no big tables nothing are needed but only Presence of mind. Had it been the same paper when I gave for the first time, I would have secured 2-3 calls for sure !
Yet we cant underestimate IIM..as its always The Protaganist. The cutoffs and negative marks and weightage every thing yet is not disclosed !
Its true that there are so many malpractices in the test areas.Lets hope, IIMs will overcome all these, eventually !! Let us give it our support to be the same Mr. Perfect.
Hope for the best.

Last but not the least..

Forget howmany answers X has given,
Forget how much extra time Y has got,
Forget how easy/difficult the test was,
Trust me--You are going to get what u deserve !!!!

///////// All the best to the test takers and Gud luck to one and all ///////

---AG38