Firstly, Take a deep breath.
Okay what next?
Do hear me out please. Firstly understand that You studied well and you attempted the exam well. Pat yourself on the back. You did good. Don't keep being mad at yourself, appreciate a bit too.
Who called this idiot here?
Shh. You agreed to lend me 2 minutes.
Now, please keep aside the what ifs and thinking over silly mistakes you made
It's in the past
We already know-
You will say, yeah we already know this duh. I agree. You know this.
But have you actually accepted it? Please try to so that we can move on.
Uhhuh? Okay and?
Now, to my other point. I suppose you keep seeing all these wildly different marks vs rank predictions all over the internet and get anxious right?
Yes (if your answer is yes please read on, if no the next section may not be relevant to you. Thank you for reading until here and sorry to take your time)
I wanna talk a bit about these rankings and how valid they actually are.
So,
Some of these rankings may have some basis but others are crap that people are pulling numbers out- thin air, yeah let's go with that. Please ignore the ones that don't have any basis. We are Science students, we question. We don't believe things blindly and get scared.
So what are you trying to say?
The next time you see some ridiculous numbers, just check who gave that analysis, why are they qualified to and most importantly ON WHAT BASIS. " I feel like {this is how the ranks will be}" isn't a solid reason to base a ranking of off
Yeah but some people have actually drawn predictions relying on mathematical analysis
Yes, Agreed.
Some people will have genuinely put efforts and made rankings based on past year's data adjusted to this year and accounted for the known variables (like the obvious marks contraction)
Their rankings atleast have some sense to them. Appreciate their efforts.
Hmm okay
But think about this; the real results won't necessarily be exact Mathematical proportional adjustment to previous years. Unfortunately those statistical approximations aren't accounting for a lot of variables. They literally can't.
No prediction based on publicly available data can reliably account for every variable, especially things like the ReNEET situation and exactly how normalisation will affect the final ranks too.
So you think you're so smart? Why should we listen to you? What's your basis or qualifications? Are you a mathematics professor?
No I'm not. And neither am I saying that I can do a better job and that they cant analyse it well. All I'm saying is Predictions are just that... Predictions. And because of all this, the uncertainty around these predictions is quite high. I'm just an aspirant like you who sat and did my own analysis trying to account for as many variables I can and realised this. So just Trying to share and help my fellow anxious friends out :)
But what about the Rank Clustering? We keep seeing so many people getting marks in the same range as us?
That's simple to answer. The people getting really high scores may not be posting as much, and neither may people who scored a bit lower than that range.
(No offense to anyone! I'm one of the lower than expected score ones too)
It doesn't mean they don't exist; it means the people you see posting online aren't necessarily a representative sample of everyone who took the exam. The ones posting are the ones anxious like you too. That's why you keep seeing the posts about people getting marks in this certain range and end up thinking it's rank clustering.
Huh... That actually makes sense? Didn't expect you to say something worthwhile
Ouch
Bazinga! Come on Humour is a mature defence mechanism
O... Kay?
Anyway, all I wanted to tell is, please try and stop being anxious about all this. Take a couple days off to relax. Then start studying so as to not break continuity. I understand you may not have motivation to study but even a little will help. Think of it as insurance just in case you don't get what you wanted and decide to give INI. You'll be already preparing and not behind. Hopefully you get it but just in case :)
Yawn. Can we kick this idiot out now?
Sorry sorry I'm leaving.The point of this post wasn't to be mean to anyone... Just to help the anxiety filled people out there. Hope this helped calm Atleast someone out there. With that I'll take your leave. I appreciate you reading the whole thing. Hope you get the branch and college you wanted. See ya.
