Demystifying RG

Ok Ok I haven’t told you I am doing MBA…..RG ‘Relative Grading’ words to sune honge. Agar nahi here it is- Everyone in MBA education is given grades relative to how others have performed. It means if all have performed well or bad; everyone is going to get same marks. But as you must have figured out nobody forms a cartel. In MBA education RG is the "TWO letter" word….But why do we crib about it, why is it wrong? we alwayz crib that why is it here?, why everyone labels others that they are doing RG? Aren’t we all doing it all our life….

When we are born our parents soon start comparing us..our child should be best in sports, academics (though academics take precedence). I still remember Aunties used to talk. Mere bête ke itne number aaye, aapke bête ke kitne aaye. Main to apne bête ko khud padhati hoon,, wagarah wagarah

We even choose to do IIT or AIMS preparation because Tom, Dick and Harry are doing it… We never see what are we capable of? Or we chose to enter only those fields where our parents are working (Film fraternity, lawyers, businessman..)

Social status, materialistic things everywhere; even having a girl friend is like a peer pressure…though not quite visible in India (And all of this blame goes to Indian girls..[;)] )

Even MBA education teaches us do the benchmarking with your competition; it is competitive world…. Reliance, TATAs of the world, etc etc..

But all of sudden in MBA it becomes a ‘Common Word’. Is it really bad? I do not think so because everyone has its own nature; has its own speed; has its own capability. But nobody understands that. Most of the time our expectations from someone is too much that we can’t handle the situation that "usne mere saath aisa kiya".

Anyway my point is that RG should be there but it should be on the basis of hard work, intelligence; and NOT by the way of cheating, information asymmetry.

Because no matter how fast you run; You can’t win the race alone