CHENNAI : Times have changed. Gone are the days when students used to gather at school on the day of the results and stick around discussing which colleges they were going to and what the cut-offs were for this university or that. Thanks to the Internet and the services provided by mobile phone service providers, the very character of the day of results has changed.Schools across the city wore a deserted look, with students choosing to stay at home and check their results online. Some even registered to get their results by SMS, with the results reaching them the instant they were released.In a departure from the crowd of students and teachers at schools to check results and share their fortunes with their classmates and teachers, the only students to be found on campus were those who had scored ranks, and a few others who had come to meet their favourite teachers.The toppers were asked by their principals to hang around so media persons could talk to them and click their pictures. At one school a topper repeatedly asked his principal if he could go home, but the school management, anxious to have their student’s face in the newspapers, ordered him to stay.The advent of Internet and mobile phones as carriers of examination results has changed the practice of families staying put while waiting for results. Now reporters often find when they go to schools to meet students who have secured ranks that they are out of station.A number of schools have even given up the practice of pasting the results on their notice boards. In some cases the maintaining of notice boards itself has been abandoned. Whatever is kept in the name of a notice board at some schools holds a printed piece of paper congratulating the students who have scored the highest marks.Given the changing way results are viewed and perceived, media houses and newspapers could well be headed for a time when the day of the results becomes devoid of the colour that it used to derive from students, teachers and parents.
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