Question

What happens when standard or objectives are exceeded? Is this a problem or an opportunity? Provide an example to support your position.

Answer 1

I believe when standard or objectives are exceeded, we set a new challenging benchmark for ourselves. We put ourselves to test our own caliber to achieve the task successfully. This push itself prompts for opportunity to prove our worth in the society. If once can tap this opportunity, one can expand one’s performance limits. Therefore this is certainly an opportunity.

For example, I shall be poor in the subject of mathematics and have also strived hard to maintain a certain score in the subject so that I can avoid failing in the subject. The earlier cut-off score to qualify for the subject was 35 which has now been raised to 40 out of 100. I would somehow manage maintaining 37-38 initially but now, I had to challenge myself to perform even better, 40 being the exceeded minimum score targets. Upon surpassing 40, I realized that my own setting of lower score criteria somewhere restricted my performance. The more I set a challenging target, the better I get towards performing my best. The new target of 40 helped me achieve 45 in my last test. With this I am sure, there is an opportunity for me to boost my spirits and thereby improve my performance in the days more efficiently.