Joining CA is end of the beginning..#copied Via CA Umesh Raj padaya It was not after 11.15 am on December 4, my phone beeped while I was at a client’s meeting- it displayed, “…., if u re free, may I call you?”. It was an unexpected message in my inbox from one of my dedicated students, suddenly I realized its not more than 1 hr and 45 minutes, the student is out of the exam hall and it was obvious to figure out that the exam is doomed…. In the evening, while I took out my phone from pocket to watch the time, there was a missed call from another student, though that was actually an accidental one. I asked about the exam she sat the day and the answer was no good. A few days ago, I met one of the best students who was chasing her dreams away from this arithmetic and numerical world. Not before 3 and half months ago, I had a fight with one of my favorites after the consequence of shattered dreams!! In these years, many aspired energetic ones have enrolled Chartered Accountancy to pursue a lucrative and reputed future. Golden letters are coloring the wall of newspaper and honey tongues have been transmitted via FMs to attract many brains in this field and for most of them- it has become the end of the beginning and the beginning of endless pessimism and pressure. Many youths have forsaken their joyful youth for the sake of a prefix or a suffix in their name. A lot of motivated aspirants have given up their motivation and many talents have accepted the continuous failures in the name of dream and success. Chartered Accountancy has become the toughest course to complete, and every time the students are cursed for the failure. Sometimes I wonder looking at the enthusiasm of young minds to achieve the goal of being called a CA, and sometimes I feel low seeing their cherishing moment and figuring out the possible outcomes once they are really tested. There is a slogan- try and try and try, until you succeed. But how much of your potential youths you use to memorize the rules of accounting, taxation, law and auditing- the formulas of finance and the texts of theories to become servant of monotony, though the sky is the limit!! When I see the persons embracing some sort of failures, facing the failing marks for the first time even when they were toppers in school/college and were highly regarded- I just can’t bear the pain they are required to withstand. Yet, the Institutes turns the finger towards them and assumes no responsibility for the waste of time of creative minds and yet, they say they are the responsible pillar of the country. Yes… this is the real problem. Most of many students fail. The failure ratio is much higher compared to other courses as the highly regarded one joins CA, who otherwise can be toppers of colleges and universities. Why is this happening? Obviously, this happened because of the students themselves. I can assign 60% to students, and 40% to the pressure created by the Institute. Everyone is talented here but very little achieves the success. The key factor to success is the person’s capability to manage pressure. Joining CA is end of the beginning; the end of beginning of joyful college life where you can flirt, chat, roam around, bunk, etc. You cannot enjoy college life, as it’s a distant learning module and there are only coaching classes not the regular academic type classes. Its the end of beginning of selective study. Unlike regular university courses, you should study thoroughly all the chapters and study for excellence not only for the exams. No matter what marks you obtain- the % above 50% is worthless. That only is worthy if you can grab some medals. Its the end of beginning of enjoying regular social life. If you desire to enjoy your social life- you need to be ready for pessimistic outcome in result. The syllabus is so bulky that you can’t manage enough time to enjoy the rituals and yet, you obtain good result. Its the end of the beginning of creative thinking. You should be rule based and you should read principles. You should study laws, standards and theories. If you think you can use creativity- the only option is to be creative in memorizing. Your examiners are so traditional that they award more marks for the section and paragraph numbers, not only for right interpretation, means they award marks to your memory not for the creativity to remember. If you think, you can pass the exam without detailed knowledge and “aaye aap. gaye jhataro” type- you are wrong. Your examiner spend plenty of times to check your paper. Your examiner tries to understand your psychological state and tries to figure out whether you really know it or spilling some words out of the blues. They desire a concrete opinion in your answer based on the analysis of facts of questions and the Indian and Nepalese CA questions require you to assume more about what the question might have asked rather than giving a concrete answer. In Nepal, questions are copied from India and the smarter question setter applies the smartness to erase some sentences from the middle of the question, seeks an assumption from student to answer and award more marks to students identifying that erased sentence and writing an assumption on that. Its the end of the beginning of expecting the services for what you have paid. Your Institutes collects lots of money from you, in the name of examination, registration, etc. and provides you some study material- takes 2/3 mocks tests which is ridiculous and which does not add value to students- and that’s it! Your Institute increases fee in regular interval of three years with a clear explanation that when a student can pay this much for coaching and why can’t for the Institute itself? And, yet again they charge some 100 rupees per class in the name of crash course which is irrelevant for final examination. Yeah, they publish Revision Test Papers just before 15 days of Examination; no one knows what the purpose of that publication at the late hour of exam and the RTPs have nothing to link with the pattern of final question setting. Be clear your question setter and RTP writer is different, and there is always autonomy to resource person for each task awarded to them except for paper checking. But, CA is not only the end of the beginning- its the beginning of joyful life if you can manage pressure, leave skipping chapters and study for the excellence rather than examination. Your Institute is improving and the world is changing. With the changing world, the static chartered accountants are becoming vibrant, and the concerns of the future chartered accountants have become the issues of current chartered accountants. You should understand that there are many ways to pass CA if you don’t want to make it the end of the beginning. What matters here is whether you are a CA or not, no matter how many attempts you required to achieve. If you look into the most successful CA now, they have become CA after a lot of attempts, compromising comforts and accepting pressures and challenges. So, at the end what I want to mention is though its end of the beginning, with the emerging competition and surfacing globalization, your institute has started thinking of you and you should never give up if you really want to catch the fireball. #Enjoy-CA
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 14:10:28 +0000
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