{"id":20263,"date":"2024-01-16T16:31:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T11:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ixambee.com\/blog\/?p=20263"},"modified":"2024-01-16T18:23:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T12:53:09","slug":"from-12th-fail-to-triumph-a-tale-of-resilience-and-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ixambee.com\/from-12th-fail-to-triumph-a-tale-of-resilience-and-success","title":{"rendered":"From 12th Fail to IPS Officer: What Led to Manoj Sharma’s Extraordinary Success?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My year started with watching the movie \u201c12th<\/sup> Fail\u201d. Yes, I\u2019m a bit late, some may say. But thanks to the OTTs, it\u2019s possible to watch the movie anytime, even in parts, from the comfort of your home. Not that I do not enjoy watching a good movie in the theatre, with that amazingly smelling popcorn tub to snack into; just that sometimes, the time does not permit to keep that on your priority list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, coming back to the movie, I liked it too, like a million others! A good storyline, good acting, emotions, and above all, a story of success against all odds! No matter how developed we get and advanced technologies come in, the thing that touches our hearts most still is the struggle to succeed. We all wanted \u201cManoj Kumar Sharma\u201d to become an IPS officer; despite knowing that in the end, he will become an IPS officer (as in all movies, the protagonist succeeds), we still must have felt heart-broken when Manoj missed to clear his mains attempt by incorrectly writing an essay on terrorism instead of tourism. And honestly, most of us would have also felt anger at Mr. Mehta, the Chairman of the Interview panel, for not understanding Manoj\u2019s struggle to reach that interview room (which we saw but he didn\u2019t) and demeaning and dismissing him in 2 minutes!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Many of you aspirants, would be relating to this movie and finding the motivation to \u201cRestart\u201d<\/strong>! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m glad it does, and such movies inspire and motivate us to keep moving towards our goal, re-establish our belief in the good in the world, and tell us that the journey to success will not be easy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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For me, this movie raised another question. Who led to Manoj\u2019s success? Was it DSP Dushyant Singh who opened his eyes to a life of \u201cno cheating\u201d and that the power in the right hands can change the world; or was it his father, who was not afraid to walk the straight path; or was it his grandmother, who gave him his life\u2019s savings; or was it destiny that canceled the State PSC exam that year and he met Pritam Pandey; or was it Pritam, who told him about UPSC exam and brought him to Delhi; was it the failed aspirant Gauri bhaiya, who helped him survive and later pushed him to study hard; or the successful aspirant Deepak Mohan who said \u201ctumse nahi ho payega\u201d or was it Shraddha and her support and stopwatch! Or was it Manoj and his determination and self-study? Difficult to choose, right? Or you may say, of course, it’s Manoj\u2019s hard work and self-study. I agree with you. Success always belongs to the person who gets to his goal. But is it his alone?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a faculty at ixamBee, an online platform that helps in the preparation of various government job exams like RBI<\/a>, SEBI<\/a>, NABARD<\/a>, legal exams, agriculture-based exams, banking and insurance exams and the like. In our field, we take an exam multiple times, through our students, year after year; we pass it many times and fail it many times too. This year too, that happened for various exams. One major exam, i.e., RBI Grade B 2023, came out recently, and we passed 70 times. How many times did we fail? I will come back to it again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s fast forward to the end of the movie, where we see a person from a prominent coaching institute giving money to Manoj Sharma and asking him to say that he has studied from their coaching. This practice is prevalent in the coaching industry to show selections and attract new aspirants to the coaching. Of course, it\u2019s not the right practice. But is this the only reality of coaching institutes? It made me think, is this the role everyone thinks we as educators actually play? While talking to various students who talk to us, who come back to us to thank us or share their problems to find solutions, and who agree to share their journey to success with us, we KNOW that is not the complete truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, let\u2019s ask again, is the success of the student alone? Was Manoj Sharma’s becoming an IPS officer his success alone, or was it also of his parent’s, Pritam’s, Gauri bhaiya’s, Shraddha’s, and DPS Dushyant’s? The success is also of all those supporting people who played a part in the journey of the protagonist, Manoj Sharma. Without the supporting roles, the protagonist cannot shine. In real life, these supporting roles are played by many \u2013 friends, family, mentors, movies, inspirational speakers, various authors, YT content providers, etc.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now let me tell you about another incident. When the result of an exam comes out, different coaching institutes claim the student was theirs. And one student ends up being a student at many institutes. This raises the question, who is buying and lying, and who is the real coaching institute the student referred to?  The answer in today\u2019s era is not straightforward, as multiple platforms provide content online, and one may refer to one or all. Also, today the student has the flexibility to choose many to get the best of each. It\u2019s like we have multiple OTT subscriptions to get all types of content, one for Bollywood best, another for its classics collection, another for its dark web series content, etc. So, a student could actually be a student at multiple institutes in reality. Does that mean one will never know the right selections and which platform to choose for your exam preparation? The answer is no. One can always find out. You may follow the below method to choose which institute(s) suit(s) you best. <\/p>\n\n\n\n