Kapil Sibal is at it again, his favourite sport of demolishing well nurtured institutions and trivialising even the most tested and sound systems developed and perfected over many many decades.
As an ex-IITian I know what it takes to get through the JEE or any similar all india entrance exam. Just following the school syllabus and memorising simply won't help. You need to have perfect grasp of concepts with excellent recall and application towards problem solving. None of these abilities are put to test in the school leaving board exams at 2 stage. However, it does not mean that even JEE is 100% fool-proof. But the defect rate of the JEE system is astoundingly low and the outcome over the decades has stood the test of time and this has been acknowledged the world over.
Re: Kapil Sibal - Institution & System Wrecker
by acommentor on Feb 16, 2012 02:26 PM
An excellent comment Mr. Muralidhar. I, just like many parents, always want my son to face the IIT-JEE and I many a time speak about the concepts involved in problem solving. The move by the Government has spoiled my efforts. Now how to change the strategy, considering my high school going son. It is not at all a good move by the Government to scrap the JEE. If at all they want English, they can do so, as it used to be in the early 1980's. They can also introduce a two stage system (as it used to be in the year 2000 or so). For colleges other than IIT/IISc, the ISEET could be a good idea.
To give weightage to the 12th examination(40%) is good and 60% to the ISEET.As we see that presently all the students do not give any weightage to 12th syllabus and mug up all the questions in two years.Those who are lucky get selected and remaining are loosers.Persons are not that inteclectual as supposed to be.AS such if weightage is given to 12th class,they will be forced to develope understanding,concepts and knowledge in subject matter.The only difficulty here will be normalisation of different state board examinations,for this a general consesus has to be developed.Proposal of the ministry is good.
good step by sibal. Instead this will reduce the incompetency among the young aspirants. 35% of indian pop is below 15 years. we should provide them simple entrance exam procedures.
I think its a good decision to unify the entrance exams. Having an exclusive JEE just makes it difficult for the students, many of whom may actually not even be aware of it. The unified approach enables every student to give it a shot and we should see good talent coming in to IIT. Efforts should also be made to unify the board examinations. Having separate boards just does not make sense.
There should be one state board and one central board for 10 2 education and as for graduation, and similarly there should be one common examination for medical/engineering/bussiness studies/computer education/science arts and commerce graduation admission in central and state run colleges based on the syllabus for the central/state board. Moreover, the aptitute for thinking, logic and problem solving skills may be tested rather than the memory power and ability to mug up the course syllabus.
Re: Rs1 lakh challenge offer
by acommentor on Feb 16, 2012 04:25 PM
Certainly. In India IITs/IIScs are THE BEST Engineering Institutions. Especially those who have qualified with good ranks (1-1000) in open category are excellent.
IITs and IIMs are bane of Indian education. These so called premier institutes need to be razed to the ground and the land they stand on should be used for some worthwhile purpose.
Re: IIts are bane
by nirmal gupta on Feb 16, 2012 12:22 PM
IIMs are the luxurious burden for any company. they just talk, talk and talk...leaders are born not and is same for the managers.
Let Sibal and his collegues first introduce this concept for the IAS and IPS exams, i.e. limit entrance chances to one after graduation and weightage 40% weightage to graduation marks, where lakhs study day and night for a few hundred seats.
Education in india has lost its value eons ago. What we have now is commercial sharks fleecing parents out of their savings and hard earned money. Yes, education is important and necessary for all children. However, to what level. An IITian is working in the IT industry, so is arts graduate who sat thru a few IT courses at roadside shops, faked his resume and using the unholy nexus between the hiring manager, HR and outside consultant gets a equal paying job. This type of backdoor entrance is rampant in most IT companies even the top ones.
Therefore, one common syllabus for all india, one common entrance exam and online multiple examinations where the computer grades the results.
