Some TOI editors are fools

Some of the editors of the TIMES OF INDIA are fools. Once I wrote them about the standard of education in India and they didn’t even publish it on their website because I think they have been recruited by taking their board marks into consideration. If you are not an IITian, you can show what I wrote to one of them and they’d know I am right!!! This is right as TOI stated that more than 20% IITians go abroad.

These people think that only they are right. They did not consult an IITian to confirm if it was right or not.

This is what I wrote -

This is in apropos to the article published on the Editorial page (page no.16) of your newspaper on December 17, titled ‘Say No to Rote Learning’. I had reckoned that an article of this nature will once be published in your newspaper and I was eagerly waiting for it because giving you feedback is easier than getting an article published in your newspaper.

The Indian educational system is a crap. The very existence of boards is the biggest proof of this. If one knows about IITs and the IIT entrance exam IIT-JEE, one would know that learning in schools is complete rote based. The School curriculum focuses on learning things rather than applying them in different situations. Many students who get above 90% in Boards but don’t get good ranks in any of the entrance exams are considered intelligent by people but actually the are muggers. Their abilities are nothing compared to the students who get good ranks in entrance exams like IIT-JEE, AIIMS & AIEEE, BITSAT to name a few.

This doesn’t apply only to Science stream students. Commerce students get entry to prestigious colleges on the basis of board marks and not their logic & reasoning ability; so many of them aren’t skilled enough and can’t apply their reasoning in real-life situations. I reckon that Commerce colleges should have entrance tests. One can understand this by knowing that over 40% of the students of IIMs are IITians( I don’t know the exact figure). IITs, being No.2 engineering institute (all 7 of them) in the world have students with great skills & analytical ability. Everyone is acquainted with the fact that IITians get plush jobs. Actually, boards are memory tests. They don’t focus on analytical ability & reasoning like entrance exams, they focus on memorization. Those who get good ranks in entrance exams don’t always get good marks in boards if they aren’t good at memorizing. In the whole country, there is not a single private school affiliated to CBSE, which makes it mandatory for there students to complete 75% attendance, which is a rule of CBSE. The students in these schools prepare for entrance exams and don’t go to school much. But their attendance registers show their attendance because their teachers and school administration mark them as present even if they are absent. In spite of the rules been broken, this shows a transition from rote learning to reasoning. There is no such thing of rote learning like board exams in the US which makes the students of US better than their Indian counterparts. If one tells someone who isn’t aware about competitive exams that he/she scored over 90% in board exams, the other person opens his/her mouth wide and says “Great yaar, you are very intelligent!” It is a pity that intelligence of a person in our country is reckoned by knowing their marks in board examinations. In a poll recently created by me on Orkut’s community ‘AIEEE PREPARING STUDENTS’, some the students didn’t criticize the boards (most of them did) because there syllabus is not much different from AIEEE (though the former focuses on rote learning and latter on logic). But what if there are no XI & XII classes? Then it will be easier for students to prepare for entrance exams themselves by self study or joining institutions like Bansal coaching classes(Kota), FIITJEE, Narayana, etc. This will be very helpful in creating skilled labour are very important for our country’s economy. Only then we will be able to compete with our foreigner counterparts who are currently better than us. Some other Orkut communities like CBSE BOARDS ARE HELL & OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM SUCKS also focus on this issue.

Actually what is taught in schools is ejjukayshion and not education. They may sound same but are very different. Closing down XI & XII classes doesn’t mean that the teachers who teach these classes will be rendered jobless; they would still have other classes to teach. Most of them aren’t trained and intelligent to prepare students for entrance exams because most of them wouldn’t have an idea about the toughness of IIT-JEE. We have to create a large skilled labour pool in our country. This can only be done if the minds of students are open for reasoning, not memorization.