Live Narendra Modi Mann Ki Baat about board exams on All India Radio Updates: ‘Win, but not to defeat anyone in your life’, says PM Modi

The monthly radio broadcast of Narendra Modi this time will focus on students preparing for board and competitive exams.

Updated: February 22, 2015 9:25 PM IST

By Shikhar Jiwrajka

Live Narendra Modi Mann Ki Baat about board exams on All India Radio Updates: 'Win, but not to defeat anyone in your life', says PM Modi

8.30 pm update: Prime Minister Narendra Modi concludes his Mann Ki Baat about board and competitive exams on All India Radio (AIR). In the ending minutes Modi said, “Win, but not to defeat anyone in your life. Succeed, to fulfill your decisions, and succeed to make yourself happy.” PM Modi added, “The more brighter your (students) future will be, the future of India will be as much brighter. It’s destiny is to be carved by the youth of India only. Come forward and actively participate in the exam festival with zeal.

8.25 pm update: Discussing the pressure students have to go through during exams, PM Narendra Modi requested parents to avoid asking their children as to how well did he do in the paper? Instead, parents should help their children concentrate on next paper rather than dwell on the same paper time and again. Modi also added, “Shouldn’t the students celebrate the exam’s time period as ‘Exam Festival’? Modi talks about one of his Gujarati poem which is titled, ‘Success will make you jealousy-prone; whereas if you fail, you will be looked down on’.

8.20 pm update: Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed on the fact that students become nervous during their exam time due to extra ordinary reasons. Modi urged young students to keep faith in themselves. Modi said that the preparation you (students) have done for your exams will make you pass with flying colours. The PM also added that the students should have full confidence in their abilities. Quoting Mr Kamat (a parent from Tamil Nadu), PM Modi said that students should ‘Be a warrior not a worrier’.

8.15 pm update: Talking about how to do well in exams, PM Narendra Modi cites the example of a cricket player. Modi said, “Don’t think about your previous papers you have given. Does a cricketer thinks that he got out on nought in his previous innings? Does he thinks that he will score a century and then only be out? NO! Instead he plays every ball without any pre-determined thought. The same way students should give their exams, without thinking about in present and past.” 

8.11 pm update: Prime Minister Narendra Modi tells students to look up to their sisters and (girl) friends who contribute in domestic help, despite giving their board exams. Students should look upto them and see them as examples. Modi says, “Friends, we should compete with no one but ourselves. Test yourself daily and look upto yourselves for more motivation.” Citing the example of excellence, Modi said that students should have strong will and stability which will give them determination. And when you couple determination with vigour, you achieve excellence.

8.08 pm update: On All India Radio (AIR), Narendra Modi said that he doesn’t have the right to tell students as how they should attempt their exams and the mode of studies. Modi recalled that he himself was an average student and didn’t have good handwriting. Keeping the talks light, Modi said that people today exhaust their creative edge in excessive competitiveness. There should be competition but not that if you lose or stay back in the competition, it is the end of your world, but it is not.

8.05 pm update: Prime Minister Narendra Modi begins his monthly address by teasing students that what do they hear day-in and day-out at their home. Modi told that the topic he has chosen today is little tough than his previous ones. Modi says, “Today, the teachers may expect me to say something which the students doesn’t hear, parents may expect that they advice their children and students that lowers their burden.” Modi also added that parents shouldn’t compare their student’s progress with their neighbours or relatvies progress.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s Mann Ki Baat monthly programme on All India Radio (AIR) will begin at 8 pm on February 22. The February 22 podcast will be Modi’s fifth when the Prime Minister will express his views on the issues prevalent in our country. This time the talk is to be about the forthcoming board examinations of students studying in 10th and 12th standard. Stay tuned for lived updates.

Giving this information through tweets, Modi invited suggestions and inputs for the ‘Mann Ki Baat‘ radio programme for February. The date for the broadcast is yet to be decided.  “Was thinking about this month’s radio programme and thought…why not share ‘Mann Ki Baat’ with students preparing for board and competitive exams,” he said. “I urge students, parents and teachers to share exam experiences that would inspire youngsters and even motivate them in exam preparation,” he added.

The Prime Minister has been addressing the nation over radio every month since October last year. Last month’s ‘Mann ki Baat’ programme was special as US President Barack Obama joined Modi in the broadcast.

The monthly radio broadcast of Narendra Modi this time will focus on students preparing for board and competitive exams. Not only Modi will express his views on the show, but also he will be answering questions which the teachers, students and parents had have asked in open forum- http://mygov.in/groupissue/inputs-for-mann-ki-baat-february-2015/show. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) examinations will begin March 2.

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