1. Before using logic which you might have mugged up elsewhere, check it's applicability. Cometition with self is for self-improvement. Whereas it is competition with others, when one is applying to some job or institute. Otherwise there would not have been anything called competitive examinations !!
2. If you really believe competition with self is for rational meritorious students, then do you say that is for only the general category students - and not for SC/ST/OBCs, because they are irrational and meritless - which is why they need reservation???