A few days back watching Walter Lewin teaching basic physics (Kinematics etc.) in MIT, made me bear a gusty pride in the intelligence and ingeniousness of our Indian education system, propelling me to form a notion that our high school students study in advance what the MIT is going to teach in the first year course (I know it's a hard joke) and if you go on to look at the cutoffs of the prestigious Delhi University, shockingly they don't go down from 97%(Caution: This is for general category because here general category students are deemed to be the demigod, blessed with humongous talent and also facing no hurdle, even if a general category candidate is impoverished, then also, he would be deemed as someone who has got more privilege than the other categories candidates whose parents are truly millionaires, thanks to our wonderful sense of judgement). Taking a look at this years statistics on the class XII and X results, shockingly I believe that Einstein's genes have been embedded in all of the candidates seeking these exams. This year more than 90,000 12th graders scored whopping above 90% score and 1,68,541 students achieved a perfect 10 CGPA in our X board exams. Doesn't that seem the characteristic of an utopian society where every single child you meet is a prodigy, and Nobel Prize's, Field's medal's expected winners (to all the Indians reading it sorry for the poor joke).
Our education system doesn't stop here. In every school there are on an average 150 students securing 95 marks in English exam, I even encountered two guys who secured 50s in all other subjects but 95 in English (Caution: No budding JK Rowling or Thomas Hardy stuff, believe me they were as good in English as they were in all other subjects). In the year 2007 barely 400 students scored 95% in class XII boards but in the year 2013 7,231 scored 95% and this number in the present year has soared up by more than 20,000 (China, United States,UK and all other great nations must surely be jealous of us). According to CBSE, every paper securing more than 95% is checked by three head examiners, but still in our nation a score of 95 in English is pretty low (Not because Britishers ruled us, teaching us all high class English but because, even if you fail in the examination, you can never get a score less than 90 in English.That's by default. Britishers might repent one day for ruling us for more than 200 years). Our greatness doesn't end out here. In 2015,our overall pass percentage for class XII was 86.13%. Shockingly we are far ahead of USA which is still aiming at around 85-90% by the year 2020; which means we are four years ahead of US in terms of education. Now with all such things, you might be thinking that India is a pool of intelligence and greatness in academics and if I tell anybody these statistics, he would be forced to believe that all the world's scientific discoveries are made at the Indian soil because we are far better and ahead than any other nation on earth.
Lets move on to that, US has 353 Nobel prize winners, Germany 105, UK 125, Sweden 30, Austria 21, European union 466, France 61, Netherlands 19, Canada 23; till now you would be thinking that owning to such wonderful pupils, we might be having around thousand Nobel prize winners, well actually you would be right if you divide thousand by hundred and check the result (sorry for the mathematical way of telling the number but you know every child in India is a prodigy, future Nobel prize winner as per the statistics). Talking about the Nobel Laureates in literature, where every student secures 95% in the English exam, we have so many Nobel Laureates that i don't want to disclose it in an outright manner, hence lets choose a mathematical way- you take any number, square it and them divide it two times by the same number and you would end up at the the exact answer (excluding Rudyard Kipling, because he was a British national and was just born in India and got all the education in Britain when we were under the British Rule).
My this article is surely not about defaming my great nation. I am an Indian and I love my country, but what's disheartening is how some people are playing with this great nation's future.
Once we were, the education hub of the world and presently the system has become so much worse that even Indians don't want to study in India. Lets start from our school. Talking about the poor children, due to exorbitant fees of private schools , such students have to go to government school which are a paragon to death bed and hell to children. Though some brilliant students excel there too but unfortunately, number of such student can't even take up a double digit number. The condition out in such schools are pathetic. Unworthy teachers as well as principals who have permanent jobs, treat children as their slaves forcing them to do works that are not supposed to be theirs. When I first went to a government school in order to participate in a debate competition, I was shocked to see some horrendous things going on but as i went there more and more times for some other competitions, I realized, this was how these schools were working. I remember an incident when I had to participate in a speech competition in a rainy season, it was a season of diseases like malaria and dengue because, it was high time for mosquito breeding. Just as I entered into that government school, there were pits full of stagnant water where one could easily see the mosquito breeding, moreover the school children were made to serve water and snacks to the participants abandoning out their ongoing classes (which is surely not their work), the thing doesn't end here, after the competition the prize winners were taken to the school's principal's room to get their names registered. Shockingly, when the whole school was dying away, the principal was sitting in an air conditioned room and it seems that hell and heaven were meeting just at the principal's room entrance. There are no labs and equipment in such schools because the money that the government shells out for the benefit of children, is taken up by the teachers and other officers. To check all these things, the government even deploys special inspectors to inspect the government schools, but then again, these inspectors are easily bribed and hence the system carries on without any problem on kickbacks. The things don't end here, the same thing continues in even private school. Though the conditions there are much better but still, most of the teachers out there (I am addressing a common issue and am not talking about every teacher) are unworthy as the school's don't want to shell out money on hiring good teachers and hence unworthy individuals sneak into the system destroying children's curiosity and also their knowledge.
Now you would be tempted to ask, that if the case is so then how so many children excel in our board examination?
The answer is simple, our board examination amount to nothing and they are truly the things that are debilitating the nation. Even today only, in a famous English Daily, I read a comment from the principal of a renowned DU(Delhi University) college saying that she has seen students securing 100 in political science in class XII fumbling in a test while those who secured 75 scored much better. There are two things about the education system of class XII. The first thing is they are actually false, even a stupid person can smell the rat watching so many children securing prestigious 95 marks.
The next thing is about that every science stream students progressed ahead keeping in mind two things, whether he has to excel in boards or in IIT entrance. Unfortunately, normally they can't do the thing in both the exams because IIT on one side requires intelligence while boards on the other side require rote learning. If you just mug up previous year board papers, and sample papers without even knowing how to solve even the basic questions, you can get above 90 in science stream, but contrary to that if you are really good at problem solving but don't learn the basic definitions word by work, no matter how much good you are, you won't get a good percentage and this is the actual fact, that's why some students even securing about 95% in class XII don't even qualify for JEE Mains, what to say about JEE advanced.
The next things destroying us all is our reservation system. I have been to this nation for around 17 years(from birth) but still one thing that I am still not able to understand is why the person next door to me, whose parents earn more than a lakh per month get benefits from the society while on the other hand, despite of being from a middle class family I am not given any benefit. Recently while talking to a friend of mine who belongs to the same category and despite of being intelligent, unable to score high percentage, I actually came to know how so many people are facing this problem.
If you go according to the DU cutoffs, the first cutoff for a general category students stood at 97 and the 12th the last stood at 96 (whopping -1% difference) while for the same course for a ST candidate, the first cutoff stood at 92% and the sixth cutoff only came to 84%. Actually in our nation, if you belong to general category, you would be bruised as much as you can be. Reservation was actually a great step taken by our forefathers, in order to enable the backward classes to come up to the nation's level and this was only deemed to be fit for around 20 years after making of the constitution, but what happened afterwards is an open story. All the political parties have a mutual understanding on the topic so as to secure vote banks, half of the political berths in our nations are reserved only on caste politics and this is the truth of our nation. If you belong to general category, even if your parents are damn poor you would be considered as a person having exceptionally gifted and unfair advantages over others and hence you would be made devoid of almost everything while on the other hand if you fall outside this sphere, no matter how much rich you are, you would be sympathized with excessive reservations in everything. Today the condition of general category is so much bad that some people even consider, being born in a general category as a sin. In India, racism exists but more than that on religious basis,its of general and other categories.
I am pro-reservation, when reservation is given on the basis of economic conditions. Through this, only the right person would be able to take the advantage. If you are poor, no matter from which caste you belong to, you are actually poor and you must get some special amenities but here the perception lies that only the general categories student can be rich and hence we all have to suffer and at last the nation suffers because see, a general category students securing 90% can't take admission in the college but the one who securing 65% from ST category can get the admission and then at last, the one who truly had the potential are wiped out and the ones who are not deserving, actually get everything.Talent doesn't belong to any particular caste and creed, the ones from other categories are as equally talented as those of general categories and hence give reservation either to everyone or on the basic of economic status. In a nation where we boast of being united, actually we all stand divided but not on the basis of religions but on the basis of our castes. Previously there was a dirty division among various castes because of unsophisticated thoughts, but today the division is being created by the politicians, the ones who want our nation to reach the nadir, because they know that this is the last barrier keeping the nation divided among itself. The day we achieve unity, every difference and every problem would be annihilated and what would come forward would be a great nation with greatness engineered into it.
I don't care from which category you belong to, but for just one moment have a look at it, give it a dekko and then you would realize that I am right because in our heart we all know what's right and we can't hide things from ourselves.........
This is not an attempt to defame anybody, its just an attempt to help by nation grow and soar in happiness, prosperity and greatness.....
Our education system doesn't stop here. In every school there are on an average 150 students securing 95 marks in English exam, I even encountered two guys who secured 50s in all other subjects but 95 in English (Caution: No budding JK Rowling or Thomas Hardy stuff, believe me they were as good in English as they were in all other subjects). In the year 2007 barely 400 students scored 95% in class XII boards but in the year 2013 7,231 scored 95% and this number in the present year has soared up by more than 20,000 (China, United States,UK and all other great nations must surely be jealous of us). According to CBSE, every paper securing more than 95% is checked by three head examiners, but still in our nation a score of 95 in English is pretty low (Not because Britishers ruled us, teaching us all high class English but because, even if you fail in the examination, you can never get a score less than 90 in English.That's by default. Britishers might repent one day for ruling us for more than 200 years). Our greatness doesn't end out here. In 2015,our overall pass percentage for class XII was 86.13%. Shockingly we are far ahead of USA which is still aiming at around 85-90% by the year 2020; which means we are four years ahead of US in terms of education. Now with all such things, you might be thinking that India is a pool of intelligence and greatness in academics and if I tell anybody these statistics, he would be forced to believe that all the world's scientific discoveries are made at the Indian soil because we are far better and ahead than any other nation on earth.
Lets move on to that, US has 353 Nobel prize winners, Germany 105, UK 125, Sweden 30, Austria 21, European union 466, France 61, Netherlands 19, Canada 23; till now you would be thinking that owning to such wonderful pupils, we might be having around thousand Nobel prize winners, well actually you would be right if you divide thousand by hundred and check the result (sorry for the mathematical way of telling the number but you know every child in India is a prodigy, future Nobel prize winner as per the statistics). Talking about the Nobel Laureates in literature, where every student secures 95% in the English exam, we have so many Nobel Laureates that i don't want to disclose it in an outright manner, hence lets choose a mathematical way- you take any number, square it and them divide it two times by the same number and you would end up at the the exact answer (excluding Rudyard Kipling, because he was a British national and was just born in India and got all the education in Britain when we were under the British Rule).
My this article is surely not about defaming my great nation. I am an Indian and I love my country, but what's disheartening is how some people are playing with this great nation's future.
Once we were, the education hub of the world and presently the system has become so much worse that even Indians don't want to study in India. Lets start from our school. Talking about the poor children, due to exorbitant fees of private schools , such students have to go to government school which are a paragon to death bed and hell to children. Though some brilliant students excel there too but unfortunately, number of such student can't even take up a double digit number. The condition out in such schools are pathetic. Unworthy teachers as well as principals who have permanent jobs, treat children as their slaves forcing them to do works that are not supposed to be theirs. When I first went to a government school in order to participate in a debate competition, I was shocked to see some horrendous things going on but as i went there more and more times for some other competitions, I realized, this was how these schools were working. I remember an incident when I had to participate in a speech competition in a rainy season, it was a season of diseases like malaria and dengue because, it was high time for mosquito breeding. Just as I entered into that government school, there were pits full of stagnant water where one could easily see the mosquito breeding, moreover the school children were made to serve water and snacks to the participants abandoning out their ongoing classes (which is surely not their work), the thing doesn't end here, after the competition the prize winners were taken to the school's principal's room to get their names registered. Shockingly, when the whole school was dying away, the principal was sitting in an air conditioned room and it seems that hell and heaven were meeting just at the principal's room entrance. There are no labs and equipment in such schools because the money that the government shells out for the benefit of children, is taken up by the teachers and other officers. To check all these things, the government even deploys special inspectors to inspect the government schools, but then again, these inspectors are easily bribed and hence the system carries on without any problem on kickbacks. The things don't end here, the same thing continues in even private school. Though the conditions there are much better but still, most of the teachers out there (I am addressing a common issue and am not talking about every teacher) are unworthy as the school's don't want to shell out money on hiring good teachers and hence unworthy individuals sneak into the system destroying children's curiosity and also their knowledge.
Now you would be tempted to ask, that if the case is so then how so many children excel in our board examination?
The answer is simple, our board examination amount to nothing and they are truly the things that are debilitating the nation. Even today only, in a famous English Daily, I read a comment from the principal of a renowned DU(Delhi University) college saying that she has seen students securing 100 in political science in class XII fumbling in a test while those who secured 75 scored much better. There are two things about the education system of class XII. The first thing is they are actually false, even a stupid person can smell the rat watching so many children securing prestigious 95 marks.
The next thing is about that every science stream students progressed ahead keeping in mind two things, whether he has to excel in boards or in IIT entrance. Unfortunately, normally they can't do the thing in both the exams because IIT on one side requires intelligence while boards on the other side require rote learning. If you just mug up previous year board papers, and sample papers without even knowing how to solve even the basic questions, you can get above 90 in science stream, but contrary to that if you are really good at problem solving but don't learn the basic definitions word by work, no matter how much good you are, you won't get a good percentage and this is the actual fact, that's why some students even securing about 95% in class XII don't even qualify for JEE Mains, what to say about JEE advanced.
The next things destroying us all is our reservation system. I have been to this nation for around 17 years(from birth) but still one thing that I am still not able to understand is why the person next door to me, whose parents earn more than a lakh per month get benefits from the society while on the other hand, despite of being from a middle class family I am not given any benefit. Recently while talking to a friend of mine who belongs to the same category and despite of being intelligent, unable to score high percentage, I actually came to know how so many people are facing this problem.
If you go according to the DU cutoffs, the first cutoff for a general category students stood at 97 and the 12th the last stood at 96 (whopping -1% difference) while for the same course for a ST candidate, the first cutoff stood at 92% and the sixth cutoff only came to 84%. Actually in our nation, if you belong to general category, you would be bruised as much as you can be. Reservation was actually a great step taken by our forefathers, in order to enable the backward classes to come up to the nation's level and this was only deemed to be fit for around 20 years after making of the constitution, but what happened afterwards is an open story. All the political parties have a mutual understanding on the topic so as to secure vote banks, half of the political berths in our nations are reserved only on caste politics and this is the truth of our nation. If you belong to general category, even if your parents are damn poor you would be considered as a person having exceptionally gifted and unfair advantages over others and hence you would be made devoid of almost everything while on the other hand if you fall outside this sphere, no matter how much rich you are, you would be sympathized with excessive reservations in everything. Today the condition of general category is so much bad that some people even consider, being born in a general category as a sin. In India, racism exists but more than that on religious basis,its of general and other categories.
I am pro-reservation, when reservation is given on the basis of economic conditions. Through this, only the right person would be able to take the advantage. If you are poor, no matter from which caste you belong to, you are actually poor and you must get some special amenities but here the perception lies that only the general categories student can be rich and hence we all have to suffer and at last the nation suffers because see, a general category students securing 90% can't take admission in the college but the one who securing 65% from ST category can get the admission and then at last, the one who truly had the potential are wiped out and the ones who are not deserving, actually get everything.Talent doesn't belong to any particular caste and creed, the ones from other categories are as equally talented as those of general categories and hence give reservation either to everyone or on the basic of economic status. In a nation where we boast of being united, actually we all stand divided but not on the basis of religions but on the basis of our castes. Previously there was a dirty division among various castes because of unsophisticated thoughts, but today the division is being created by the politicians, the ones who want our nation to reach the nadir, because they know that this is the last barrier keeping the nation divided among itself. The day we achieve unity, every difference and every problem would be annihilated and what would come forward would be a great nation with greatness engineered into it.
I don't care from which category you belong to, but for just one moment have a look at it, give it a dekko and then you would realize that I am right because in our heart we all know what's right and we can't hide things from ourselves.........
This is not an attempt to defame anybody, its just an attempt to help by nation grow and soar in happiness, prosperity and greatness.....
JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI
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