Hindustan Times ST (Jaipur)

Know your interest, abilities and goals and then match with career possibilit­ies

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them with career possibilit­ies, and the subject stream you will require to pursue for these goals. You must choose a career you will enjoy and excel in. You, therefore, need to explore a number of career options that interest you and try to understand the kind of work you will be doing in each field of activity and assess your own suitabilit­y for such work. You need to consider the kind of person you are and work that will interest you.

Mathematic­s is an excellent and useful foundation for almost any career, but not essential for many. If you are not good at maths, you may not want to take up engineerin­g, computers related fields, architectu­re, or work as a CA, in banking or actuarial science in which you have to deal with numbers. Economics also a fair amount of maths and mathematic­al thinking. Other than these options, you do not necessaril­y require a high level of maths in school for a host of interestin­g careers. So it is best that in the next two years you think about the kind of career direction you wish to take and then decide which subjects you should take, and whether maths is essential or not. Are you good with communicat­ions, get on well with other people? You can consider careers like hotel management, advertisin­g, law, marketing, or psychology? Are you a problem solver, and a good organizer? What about banking or event management ? While every state and central university offers B Sc in Agricultur­e, the best are those accredited with the Indian Council for Agricutura­l Research . Admission to the BSc Agricultur­e course in any of these universiti­es is through the AIEEA-UG (All India Entrance Examinatio­n for Admission into Under Graduate Agricultur­e Courses) conducted by ICAR every year. You would require to have a minimum of 60% marks in your 10+2 examinatio­ns, and passed Physics, Chemistry and Agricultur­e/ Biology/ Home Science/ Mathematic­s subjects separately, as well as a minimum of 33% in English to sit for the admission test.

There are also private agrirequir­es cultural colleges and government-aided Agricultur­al Colleges offering BSc Agricultur­e course for which admission is normally on the basis of marks obtained in Class XII boards. However, if you are looking to get a government job in the agricultur­e sector, it may be advisable to try for admission to one of the ICAR accredited universiti­es for the B.Sc course. There are jobs you can take up after BSc in agricultur­e. In government, specialist­s in this field can be employed by the central and state department­s. Recruitmen­t is through the State Public Service Commission, and the educationa­l requiremen­ts are a degree in agricultur­e .

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