{"id":2536,"date":"2011-06-03T07:15:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T02:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2011-06-03T07:15:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T02:15:34","slug":"why-havent-iits-iims-produced-more-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2011\/06\/03\/why-havent-iits-iims-produced-more-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why haven’t IITs & IIMs produced more heroes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My column in today’s DNA<\/a> – on “the IIT’s and IIM’s are truly worldclass ?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the very start, we can start by admitting that Jairam Ramesh, himself an IIT alumnus, is partly right. The IIT-JEE exams are held every year and are used to admit students to the Indian Institutes of Technology, IIT-BHU (Banaras Hindu University) and ISM (Indian School of Mining, Dhanbad) The institutes between them have a sum total 13,000 seats (9,600 for the IITs). This year 4,85,000 young aspirants took the exam in the hope of being selected by one of these institutions in any of the engineering disciplines they may be running. That means 2.7% of the students who take the JEE were selected. If we look at just the IITs, the figure drops to 2%.
\nThe IIMs are even more exclusive. Over 250,000 students take the CAT (common entrance test) competing for 2600 seats (1%).For the average Indian student \u2014 whose parents can afford it \u2014 it is possibly easier to get into MIT than IIT or to Wharton than IIM.Furthermore, these 4.85 lakh students who took the JEE had most probably been preparing for the last three years for the exams. In addition to going to college and lab work and tuitions for their 10th and 12th, these students have most likely taken extra coaching and classes for the JEE. So, what you really haveare a bunch of the most academically oriented, highly motivated teenagers in schools, colleges and tuition classes across the country who have been put through an education drill with only one aim \u2014 crack the JEE.
\nWhen these 9,600 IIT students and 2,600 IIM students graduate and go out into the world to make a name, you shouldn\u2019t be surprised. Most of them were predisposed to this success and the educational process from the 9th standard upwards just helped focus and structure their innate abilities. The question that should be asked is why despite all this \u201cselection\u201d, there aren\u2019t more success stories coming out of the IITs or even the IIMs.If the IITs and the IIMs took students with mediocre or borderline marks, or students from disadvantaged backgrounds \u2014 who did not have the luxury of undergoing the multi-level training from the 9th standard \u2014 and made them into world-beaters, one could appreciate that the institutions had great teaching and systems to bring out the best in students. But, the fact remains \u2014 and sadly so \u2014 that this is not the case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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