Top 25 mantras shared by PM Modi during seventh edition of 'Pariksha Pe Charcha'

Students and teachers expressed great pleasure and said it was a totally different experience to participate in the Pariksha Pe Charcha event at the Bharat Mandapam.

A mixed feeling of pride, nervousness and excitement filled students as they attended Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "Pariksha Pe Charcha" programme at the Bharat Mandapam here on Monday.

Around 2.26 crore students from across the country joined the programme either virtually or physically.

Among the happiest were those who got the chance to pose a question to the prime minister and take a tour of the Bharat Mandapam -- the venue specially built for diplomatic deliberations during the G20 summit.

"We are extremely happy to be able to meet our prime minister and seek his guidance on exams. It's a mixed feeling of pride, nervousness and excitement," one student from a group from Kendriya Vidyalayas told PTI.

Students and teachers expressed great pleasure and said it was a totally different experience to participate in the "Pariksha Pe Charcha" event here at the Bharat Mandapam.

Here are top 25 mantras shared by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during seventh edition of 'Pariksha pe Charcha' on Monday:

1. Parents should not make report cards of their children as their visiting card.

2. There is nothing like the 'right time', do not wait for it.

3. Instil resilience in children to help them cope with pressures.

4. Student-teacher bond must be beyond syllabus and curriculum.

5. Make effective use of technology and mobile phones with the help of judgement-based decision-making.

6. Screen time eats into sleep time; I fall asleep within 30 seconds of going to bed.

7. Never sow seeds of competition and rivalry between your children, siblings should be an inspiration for each other.

8. Teachers must not take their profession as a mere job, they should take it as a means to empower the lives of students.

9. If there are millions of challenges, there are billions of solutions as well.

10. Compete with yourself, not with your friend.

11. Don’t keep preparing until the last moment, approach exams with a relaxed mindset to avoid unwanted tension.

12. Failures must not cause disappointments, every mistake is a new learning.

13. When there is no selfish motive, there is never confusion in decision.

14. Students, families and teachers need to collectively address the issue of external stress while evolving the process rather than implementing a systematic theory.

15. Doing well in exams is not a zero-sum game.

16. Friendship is not a transactional emotion, rejoice in the success of your friends too.

17. Need to avoid mistakes due to over enthusiasm of the parents or over sincerity of the students.

18. Trust deficit in families needs to be rectified.

19. Parents should not over-hype the exam day by new clothes, rituals or stationery.

20. Competition and challenges act as inspirations in life, but competition must be healthy.

21. Create 'no gadget zones' in houses.

22. Establish transparency between family members, share phone passcodes with them, no gadget during dinner.

23. Just like mobile phones, human bodies need recharging too.

24. Always make friends who are more intelligent and work harder, you must be inspired by such friends.

25. Practice writing for exams in pen and paper mode, habit of writing declining due to computers and phones.