{"id":703,"date":"2008-10-29T23:24:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T04:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=703"},"modified":"2008-10-29T23:24:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T04:24:44","slug":"reply-to-an-lower-batch-ranting-about-the-electronics-board-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/29\/reply-to-an-lower-batch-ranting-about-the-electronics-board-exams\/","title":{"rendered":"reply to an Lower Batch ranting about the Electronics Board Exams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Ih2E3d\"><strong>The society sees that to be an engineer, one should pass the board examinations. But to be a GOOD engineer, one should need to PROVE himself\/herself. Merely passing these exam is not justifiable enough.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>and simply put, engineering boards for up students are not the same for non up students,<br \/>\nIts a way for people to show aptitude when studying in places where aptitude for a student isn&#8217;t a given<br \/>\n(think other state u&#8217;s or non-1st tier educational institutions).<br \/>\nAs tipz has already stated at least in the Philippines UP students get the benefit of the doubt even with horrendous transacripts of records.<br \/>\nI think the example of this is if you go to other countries where UP students does not have a reputation for excellence and thus do not get the benefit of the doubt. They usually take certification exams of different sorts to prove at least a minimal level of competence.<br \/>\nI imagine an MIT\/Stanford grad is not asked SCJP results when applying for CS jobs, but people from UP are, just expound on this.<br \/>\nAnd if you love programming you&#8217;d probably feel the same about the programming certifications as you feel for the Electronics Board Exams.<br \/>\nI&#8217;d say this is how the world works and you have to live with it.<br \/>\nI know its frustrating, and it is in some ways a waste of time.<br \/>\nI somewhat had a change of heart whilst writing this.<br \/>\nThe younger batches should thank you because of your honesty.<br \/>\nYou can create your own path.<br \/>\nBut that would entail sacrifice, work in another country where the license is worth nothing, do your masters or create your own company.<br \/>\nI am rambling sorry , lack of sleep.<br \/>\nIn conclusion, sorry if nobody told you the how worthless the board exams is, and what other paths you might have taken.<br \/>\nThank you for starting the conversation.<br \/>\nThis too shall pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The society sees that to be an engineer, one should pass the board examinations. But to be a GOOD engineer, one should need to PROVE himself\/herself. Merely passing these exam is not justifiable enough. and simply put, engineering boards for up students are not the same for non up students, Its a way for people &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/29\/reply-to-an-lower-batch-ranting-about-the-electronics-board-exams\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;reply to an Lower Batch ranting about the Electronics Board Exams&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}