Contrary to popular perception, I endorse the decision to scrap the JEE and admit students into the country's top engineering schools through a single entrance exam. In all fairness there is nothing special in JEE, it is just another burden on the student entering high school. They do hand pick the best students in the country and make them brighter and world class so that they can get out of the country and drain their brains elsewhere. Whats the big deal in purifying gold from 95% to 99% ? If the IITs are so good and trust their teaching and research standards, why can't they brighten up the little duller of the lot.
I still remember the harrowing two years when I had prepared and passed JEE to get into one of those top colleges. Day after day, month after month all I did was go to coaching classes which cost a fortune and taught me the megalomania that the IITs weren't. Think about this issue from the perspective of a high school student and the burden he has to go through in preparing for 10 different entrance exams, all different format, all requiring separate set of skills. There are so many entrance exams that in the months from January-May of each year, all the Sundays are booked in all the schools across the country just so that these exams can be written by millions of students with dreams of an engineer or a doctor.
What the JEE has done over the years is give rise to entire cities whose economies thrive on the students preparing for these exams. These godforsaken children leave their homes, skip high schools and sweat it out in the coaching classes of which just one is not enough sometimes.The luckier lot gets to stay at home but is constantly reminded of the streets on which they might need to beg if they don't qualify. Parents, relatives, friends, friends of friends, even a passerby has some advise for you.There is so much free advise available all around that if it were all put together in a single person, it would humble the likes of Sri Sri Ravishankar and his Art of Living.
Please get rid of the JEE, AIEEE and all the entrance exams and make way for one single exam which tests students based on aptitude and reasoning. Why is it important to know how a pulley works or what a semiconductor is or which part of the body is used to digest sugar? Aren't the engineering and medical schools supposed to teach this stuff? All that should be required of the student should be basics of mathematics,physics and some chemistry(I would do away with this too if I could). Don't fill students with useless information that they will not need for the rest of their lives. If they do choose the devil and decide to join mechanical engineering, then it makes complete sense to teach them how a pulley works and maybe even hang them from one.
P.S.:Kapil Sibal, you might be the most hideous person I have ever seen, but I support you on this one.
1 comment:
very good post. all those who boast for the rest of their lives that they cleared the JEE, while doing nothing special apart from that are clearly schmucks.
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