After the declaration of Result of every competitive exam, there are a few happy faces of candidates who’ve managed to clear the exams. Their hard work has been rewarded and they are all charged up for a good career ahead.

But after the results of every exam there are many sad faces as well of candidates who’ve failed to clear their exams. With passing percentages of professional competitive exams being too low, very few candidates manage to clear their exams and the rest are declared as failed.

Interestingly, a high proportion of the candidates who appear for such exams are those who’ve been excellent in their career record throughout; and when they face failure, they get shattered. Many candidates get de-motivated and get depressed about their failure.

They start blaming their luck and think that such professional courses are not for them. And this is where they go wrong.

You have to accept the fact that passing percentage of such exams cannot be 100%. The regulating bodies cannot declare everyone as passed. But, they never fail anyone. It’s only that they give you another chance to try again. They give you another chance to buckle-up and try again the next time. If they had to fail you – they would never give you another chance to try again.

Failure is not falling down; failure is staying down when you have the choice to get back up. No-one can fail you; it is only you who decides the failure.

And success is not the absence of failure; it is the overcoming to failure. We all know about so many instances wherein people failed a thousand times only to get-up again the next time and eventually they got success.

Let’s take the example of people in and around us who failed and then succeeded.

NameFailureSuccess
Shailee Chaudhary
(All details on this link)		CA Final – Nov 14CA Final Rank 1 – May 15
Nitin GuptaCA Final – May 10CA Final Rank 1 – Nov 10
Sujoy K. N.CA Final – Nov 09, May 10CA Final Rank 1 – Nov 10
Sonia RakhejaCA Final – Nov 09, May 10CA Final Rank – Nov 10
Archit ShahCA Final – Nov 09CA Final Rank 3, May 10
Gaurav GuptaCA PE II, May 08CA PE II Rank 18, Nov 08
Monica DalaniyaCA PCC, Nov 10CA PCC Rank 21, May 11
Anonomys (http://thesecret.tv/stories/stories-read.html?id=18197)CA Inter Exams twiceCA Final Rank 24

(The above is only an illustrative list and in every attempt, many failures manage to mop-up a rank)

Here are some interesting quotes on failure:-

  1. Don’t let success go to your head or failure go to your heart
  2. Success delayed is not success denied
  3. The greatest failure in life is the failure to try again
  4. Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem
  5. Nobody in this world ever achieved anything by giving up