What If I Scored Less Marks ? No Future ?

Hadi Abdulkader
Mar 21, 2020
3 min read

Updated: Mar 27, 2020

In a race, the winner is not always the fastest, strongest or wisest but the person who believes he can and keep doing until he gets what he wants.

Behind all failures there will be a failed strategy or an unhealthy mindset, if you are not up to the mark, especially in studies, look back and analyze the failure.

It's not the end of the world.

If you are a parent reading this, please stop criticizing your kid and generalizing "he is dumb or useless".

Factors such as emotional roller coasters, close friends, relationship issues, unsupportive teachers or even your own family environment is the underlying cause.

We are seeing only the end result or the effect of all these possible causes.Simply pointing at our kids can only worsen the situation and destroy him or her as an individual.

Let's see what is possible right now, for all the disappointed parents and kids who were not able to score cutoff marks to secure the admission for the higher studies they intended to.

1. If still possible, go for revaluation if you are confident about your performance.

2. Attend improvement exams or retests if deadlines permits.

3. If you can't do anything to improve your scores,lets look for alternatives below.

What to do next ?

Accept it, Accept it and Accept it.

Close your eyes, take few deep breaths and relax.

Once you are relaxed write on a white paper "I am more than my marks"

Anyone who may trouble you teasing or criticizing you, tell them politely " I am more than my marks". This may sound unconventional, But this belief works.

All your disappointment, anger and frustration is a power house, let that energy to be tapped in to creating a new chapter in your life.

Live your life ahead to prove yourself and others to show them "I am more than my marks"

This is the time to think deeply about what you want to accomplish in your life.Because lack of ambition is one of the reason why many people under performs.

Once you have a area to focus on all your thoughts and actions will be assimilated to create wonders.

After deciding your purpose of your life, let us analyze the paths to reach there.

Good score and admissions to courses and colleges is only one of the path to take you to living your dream.

As I always suggest, opt for a personality test (online or in person) to know more about you, your strengths, weaknesses and suitable careers. From there you can list the professions which might interests you and shortlist those which are still possible for you to enroll with your current score.

Look around, there a lot of people living around you who lives a great life in spite of their scores (They may laugh about it now if you ask them).

What they learned from those failures prepared them to win ahead in their life. Life's a game, sometimes we win or sometimes we fail.

Each failure is an opportunity to come back stronger and wiser. Be happy about what you have, call your dearest friend and have a conversation cherishing your memories together, spend quality time on activities or hobbies you love, get outside and have some fresh air, or read a inspirational book and relax.