Thread: Why do people judge a person based on their A/L results?

Originally Posted by Helena

In Sri Lanka many people have a mentality of judging a person based on the results they get in the A/L examination.This sometimes becomes a reason for some suicides of youngsters.
They set a fine line between those who enter into medical and E-faculty and those who fail to enter those faculties.
A student who is not eligible to enter medicine or engineering are portrayed as a person who is not worth living in the society!


What kind of mentality is this? There are a lot more to explore and learn in this vast world.There are more and more opportunities out there.
In my POV, if a student fails to enter those faculties even after great efforts and hard works and ends up just getting three passes or entering into some other faculties; yes it's more than enough to survive.
On the other hand, if a student realizes his/her mistakes after the results and try to change themselves it's much better as well.

We all are humans and not god, all of us do mistakes in our life.The society should change their views on judging a person based on their A/L results.


Do you accept it? Share your views on this issue.

HI there Helena! This is seriously a good question, a question that I always wanted to ask! I think yes people judge us based on our a level results no matter how skilled your and how well you did back then in you levels people will always point out on your levels!

Originally Posted by Helena

In Sri Lanka many people have a mentality of judging a person based on the results they get in the A/L examination.This sometimes becomes a reason for some suicides of youngsters.
They set a fine line between those who enter into medical and E-faculty and those who fail to enter those faculties.
A student who is not eligible to enter medicine or engineering are portrayed as a person who is not worth living in the society!


What kind of mentality is this? There are a lot more to explore and learn in this vast world.There are more and more opportunities out there.
In my POV, if a student fails to enter those faculties even after great efforts and hard works and ends up just getting three passes or entering into some other faculties; yes it's more than enough to survive.
On the other hand, if a student realizes his/her mistakes after the results and try to change themselves it's much better as well.

We all are humans and not god, all of us do mistakes in our life.The society should change their views on judging a person based on their A/L results.


Do you accept it? Share your views on this issue.

No matter how much skilled of a skilled person you're! If you didn't do well in your alevels people will judge you. There are cases where students have even ended up in suicides. I guess the first thing is our family should understand before our society does! As far as our mindsets aren't changed nothing can really be changed!

Originally Posted by Karikaalan

This is a curse for our society and we have to change the mindset of our people. From the childhood everyone is told to study well instead of telling to be a successful person in life without realising that a/l is one of the path for success , not final success

From a long time there is believe in our society if we want to achieve success in life we should hold a university degree.People should understand education just pave the path for success not the entire cause for success. To achieve success we need to have passion,skills,talent and most importantly hard work.

Originally Posted by Helena

Exactly Adiza.It hurts more when those immature people comment on our parents.The most irritating part is ,each time the government releases the results or z-scores those people start talking about this.In my view those who have that mentality is the ones with small children who haven't even completed their O/L's or A/L's and some teachers or educational people in school level who doesn't have much exposure

Well said Adiza people who thing big about A/Levels are the people who don't have much exposure in the world they are just living in their circle without knowing what is happening in the world and how many opportunities people have in the world to achieve success in their desire fields.