counselling helps students understand where their interests lie with more students opting for commerce and humanities says sharmila chatterjee principal of dps vasundhara we also counsel parents as they often force kids into fields they are not interested in several schools have tieups with organizations such as ja and mexus education that uses innovative ways to introduce science and design to children we give students an inventors kit that guides them towards indigenous solutions to scientific problems we also have an enterprise index report which tells kids where their skills lie says saurabh saxena director mexus at ja students are shown how all fields come in handy for a particular career a delhi schoolboy couldnt make up his mind between social work and engineering we asked him how much money a labourer would have spent to take his pregnant wife from gurgaon to rohini 10 years ago we then asked him to calculate how much less the costs are today thanks to delhi metro he realized that a great piece of engineering could also benefit society says matoory if a chemical engineer creates a great alloy that increases the longevity of metro coaches the price of tickets may come down once the cost of project is recovered after say 10 years this will make transport more affordable for the common man he adds