Oolaaaalaaaa !!!!!!!!!!!I am back again. Here’s my first post in the brand new year 2007. This post is about the Anna university third semester results of my students. I handled Data structures for II yr Electronics and Communication Engg students .All the students have entered II Year directly after finishing their diploma .We call diploma students as lateral entry students .Due to delay in lateral entry counseling,the stipulated time was too little.When I was assigned this subject ,I was very nervous because I was a fresher then and to my dismay for all the students except two ,don’t have clue what is a C language and English language is a hard nut to crack…I was bit reluctant and asked my colleague to swap the same subject with regular ECE students. But he did not give me a nod and I had to handle… kadavul mela baaratha potu I went to class.. For first ten classes I had to teach them C language from scratch. The encouraging part was students interest towards learning .But I got really depressed to see their scores in the tests… two months rolled off quickly.They had interest but grasping the concepts and reproducing the same in tests that too in English was always a daunting task for them… Many had done their diploma courses in tamil.I had to teach them in tamil and also in English because one student does not understands tamil… this consumed the time even more… I was totally diffident about completing the syllabus and about the students performance…. But they slowly improved their knowledge about their subject and English through their hard work.Hmm I was some how able to finish the syllabus with my students cooperation. By god’s grace the University exam question paper was not that tough… and atlaaaaaaaaaaaaaaast the results got released… the pass percentage in data structure is 88% which is incredible!!!!!!!!! I was so happy but 7 students failed out of 53 .I hope some of them clear in revaluation. One studious chap got typhoid during exam so he could not clear.Usually lecturers look down on lateral entry students and don bother if they get poor results too. But anyway my students have proved that lateral entry students are equally capable as regular students.. I went to their class the next day morning after the results got published .The moment I entered all my students applauded in joy…. Because in that class only in data structure and electrical machines the no of failures is 7;in the rest of the subject the number of failures are more than 20. I wont crow that its all because of me u see I am a modest gal…but its all because of the team effort and more than that the sort of sincerity the students possessed towards learning data structure. This is my mini achievement, which gave me mega santhosham.Hope I get more such mega santhoshams in future!!!
