Two years of online learning, delayed board exams and their results and now the wait for visas coupled with last minute flight fares, the misery of study abroad aspirants who passed Class 12 this year is far from over.
School closures due to pandemic was just the beginning of the “stressful” phase which will set the tone of their careers, say parents of Indian students from “COVID batches” planning to head to foreign destinations for higher studies.
“The batch has been ‘jinxed’ from the beginning. First the students were grounded inside homes for two years waiting for the schools to reopen. Then the board exams were split up in two terms, a first experiment of its type. There was no clarity on how results will be computed. The second term was already delayed than usual schedule and delayed result caused further chaos for us,” one of the students, Radha Osan, told PTI.
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