Higher secondary is a pivoting time for any school child’s career. Choosing a field of study, and committing to a lifetime of career overwhelms them with a huge unaddressed burden of the unknown possibilities related to it. It’s okay to be scared; but in a way, it also starts giving the child, the real taste of the real-world extremities.

Children take a chance at their first decision regarding their upcoming life and it makes a huge impact on their mindset as an individual. It loosely translates into what kind of life they will lead but not to worry it’s not decided and carved in stone.

Over the years; studying the syllabus and making sense of the real world through the lens of textbooks puts students’ minds in constant confusion. They don’t know whether and how to commit to a process they are being subjected to when they cannot relate their understandings with the real world.

But as an individual, they start to see their constructs of understanding, converging and coming together as they go on studying their curriculum and interact with their surrounding at the same time. 

They start to notice that whatever they understand about student-hood, studies, career, life,etc the seed of it all was planted way back in their 11^th and 12^th classes. So, as they move on, the understanding grows multi-folds with every experience but the understanding comes a little later as and when they start to get a chance to relate it now and then.

That is why the exposure part is any kind of grooming is necessary. The grooming they get when exposed to different situations, different cadres of professionals in their field, and different fields as well, gives them a kind of experience that shapes them in a certain way; which eventually becomes a part of their ongoing life.

11^th and 12^th classes can make or break a child. As the influencing factors are many and they are still a baby to the real world which drives their reality. If they are exposed to a value-rich environment; their grooming takes care of itself and doesn’t need that much attention; except the parental grooming, of course.

The 11^th and 12^th classes of any school provide the child with freedom in life a little more than what they got, up until their 10^th class. So, the environment itself that the school provides is responsible to help them understand the true meaning of it and how to use that freedom to make the best decisions.

Along with that, parents also play an important role as a guide for them at that tender age. So, overall, higher secondary education helps children take that plunge and step into the real world.