HOW STUDENTS IN UTTAR PRADESH CHOOSE THEIR SUBJECTS FOR SENIOR SECONDARY: A STUDENT ADVOCACY REPORT.

Jawaharlal Nehru once said “The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all”. In India, the students, their Friends, Parents and also the Education System are being too cautious in aiming the missiles of education to the prospective learners in 2016. Global Competition, overpopulation and now even the Quality & Methods of Education have become the important reasons of Unemployment, because a mere degree in hand is not being entertained as a good employability status because companies are nowadays looking for passion, multitasking abilities and worthiness of candidates for respected jobs. There is no denying of need of education but the researcher aims at the needs of Educational Reforms so that the Indian economy may escalate onto higher grounds as sought by policy makers. This Paper reveals a very important and interesting factsheet about the reasons which lies behind the choice of Major Subjects at Senior Secondary Level by the students and how majority of them need to drop their passions, bobbies and interests in order to learn what they are not supposed to. This paper also examines the influence of Societal factors over sole interests of Students while making choices for their prospective professions because senior secondary is seen as the level which defines the path of one’s careers. Primary Data for this research report has been collected from 200 undergraduate students from different streams and different cities of Uttar Pradesh region and basic statistics has been used to analyse impact of one variable over other.