When I was in High School (Class IX-X), I used to have a Maths teacher (Mr Bist). He was a good teacher, but quite arrogant and ruthless in the class. He used to set very tough paper and do very strict marking.
In class IX, he set the paper so tough in half-yearly exams and his marking was so tough that just 2 students out of 50 passed (I was one of them). When the students would fail, their parents would get panicky and they would rush to him for private tuition. This is how he operated and made good money.
He had a peculiar method to create fear and discipline the class.
When he would find someone talking or not listening, or he was unhappy with some, he would threaten, “Should I call you on blackboard?”
He would typically call the student on the board and gave him a tough math problem to solve. When the student won’t be able to solve the problem, he would humiliate him before the class and punish him by asking him to stand in the class or stand outside the class.
Hence, his threat would send shivers in the spine of the students.
He was not very fond of me in the beginning as I did not join his private tuition and he could not fail me in the class despite tough marking.
Hence, in order to humiliate me, he called me couple of times on the board on the slightest pretext.
However, every-time he called me on board, I would go smiling and solve any problem which he would give from the textbook.
Finally he stopped threatening and calling me on board and gradually became very fond of me.
I am sure that your marks are poor and hence you feel humiliated when your relative ask your marks.
You also have perhaps no other achievements to show.
If your marks would have been great, perhaps you would be proud of telling your marks even when you are not asked by the relative.
Hence, you must take the mischief of your relative as a challenge and teach him a lesson.
You must try to improve your performance in academics by getting good marks in your future classes or achieve success in some other area of life.
One of my close relative got second division (less than 60% marks) in his Xth Board and used to be humiliated by many of his relatives.
Later he got selected into PCS (now an IAS) and today he a DM of an important district in UP.
I have never seen anyone asking his marks thereafter.
He rather proudly declares that he got second division in class X and yet cracked PCS examination many of the toppers of the Board are working under him.
If you wish to develop the right attitude of life, learn to take criticism in the right spirit.
Instead of blaming your critics, you would focus your energies to improve yourself so much that your critics are silenced by your achievements rather than by your words.
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