kanpur the exam results of the three boards that were declared recently have not only decided the fate of lakhs of students but have also reflected the changing trends and the ground realitiesfor example the declaration of results mirrored the choice of the students changing from conventional options like medical and engineering to administrative services commerce gaining interest among the students and parents alike and similarly lifes challenges instead of becoming a deterrent proved a turning point for the students enabling them to come out triumphantwith the good old career options including medical and teaching soon to be vanishing from the students career list the inclination of meritorious students towards administrative services and other professional courses is what seems to be the impact of technology being pervasivesample this icse class xii girls topper expressed her interest in chartered accountancy while cbse class xii topper akash singh aspires to be an ias not only akash but majority of the up board meritorious students including vikas jaiswal naina singh and jayant tewari are fascinated towards administrative servicessimilarly barring a few exceptions other students too wanted to go for professional degrees including btech in environment science chartered accountancy or even being astronaut than going for the medical streamthe students when quipped as to why engineering or administrative services is luring major chunk of the city lads as their first career option pat comes the reply weather you want to go for mba or civil services later in your career one always has an upperhand after pursuing btech degree besides fetching you a good job an engineer always enjoy the luxury of facilities no matter in government or private company as explains naina singh for choosing to go for ias exam after a btech degree it is perhaps one of the best salaried job soon after btech degree that tempts most of the career conscious students to go into this line medical line in the long run sounds monotonous as you have to study and study for years before you get qualified as a doctorwhen quizzed upon preferring to be a softwarehardware engineer to being as a teacher or government job the career conscious students also opined money and fame to be a pretty good reason for opting for the firstanother interesting trend that was observed after the declaration of board exam results was commerce to have been a big gainer with most school toppers coming from the streamapart from sanjana mahiwal of st marys others from the stream who topped their respective schools include abhishek ghai from vsec awadh puri anchal agarwal dps kalyanpur and diksha kakkar from huddard school similarly akshat bansal from puranchandra archie dalmia from jain international and bhawna from subhash public school topped their respective schools and the three are from commerceschool principals also feel that the lucrative offers by mncs international banks and financing agencies are attracting a large number of students towards commerce there is a paradigm shift from science to commerce stream and this trend reflects