Since the old days (1970's), the IITJEE has been considered an extremely tough paper to crack. There were times when the questions would be so tough, that the cut-off would be in the 10-20% range for each subject!! The idea was to select the most hardworking students. Intelligence may also have been one criteria for selection, but the main emphasis had been on the hardwork and approach toward solving a new problem. As time progressed, in the 1990's, a lot of coaching institutes started to mushroom in Kota, Rajasthan, and in a span of about 10 years, they were able to master the trick to solving any problem that the JEE committee could think of cooking up. So much so that the institutes would make the student work from 6 in the morning till late in the night, making them cram the possible approaches in solving those problems. These kids would stay in dingy rooms in their so-called hostels, and be away from their family or any other kind of support. They would only take admission in a nearby school and never attend any classes there. School was just to ensure the student gets a pass certificate in board examination. (I am using the past tense but in reality, this kind of a situation can still be seen there)
Eventually the IITs realized that the quality of these kids was so desperately bad in terms of their personality that they decided to change the pattern of the examination altogether so that it becomes difficult for these coaching institutes to survive who were wasting so many lives and careers.
In the new pattern, their would be a reading comprehension passage, match the following questions, etc. These kind of questions require an intelligent and fresh mind, and not a mind that is used to cramming up rules and approaches taught in a classroom. Moreover, the level of difficulty has been brought down drastically to match with the NCERT level. Once again emphasizing on the fact that a very special coaching of any kind is not required for the IITJEE.
So a student now does not need to go all the way to Kota for his preparations. He just needs to study the NCERT completely first. And probably take admission in a coaching nearby only, thereby saving his precious time.
3 comments:
Dear Mr.Tyagi,
I am one of your admireres and your advise on quest groups is always very sound.
I am in double mind about sendiong my son to Bansal IIT Kota.The only thing botheriing me is that is the pattern of JEE has cahnged so much ,then why,still so many toppers are from Kota.
I will surely appreciate if you please expalin it to me as I have to make plans to send my son to KOTA next year.
We must remember that any organization survives and thrives on success and growth. Without showing any evidence of growth (of profit, results, whatever is the parameter), no company can expect to survive for long.
This is true even for coaching institutes in kota. Results have to increase in their ads to get admissions for the next year.
So are they showing fake results when in reality they are going down? No. In that case, who are the students they claim as results? Well, if some child has taken admission in a coaching institute only for writing the test series, the child is taken to be a student of that institute. So if the kid cracks IIT, his rank belongs to the institute as well. Technically, the kid never studied at that institute, but now his rank can be used by them.
Thats how most of the results are collected by the institutes.
Your blog is very good and very helpful for students
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