<p>Its obviously impossible and impractical to introduce a US-like admission criteria in Indian universities like IITs, but we do need to strike the balance between feasibility and hinging the fates of students on how much they can apply the sole activity of the past 2(or 3) years of their life in one day. How should we go about it?</p>
<p>The JEE is flawed. flawed big time.
It’s an ancient piece of machinery that no one’s bothered to maintain. Of course the IIT’s impart top notch education, no doubt about that, but in recent years, the “quality” of people going through has drastically fallen.</p>
<p>I think the IIM CAT system is the way to go. I mean an interview is a must. I don’t even mind putting CAT maths questions in the JEE.</p>
<p>Ok, so your suggestion is
JEE(with mental abilty ques)–>interview–>selection?
And what are the interview criteria?</p>
<p>Interview’s should be based on both your JEE marks as well as your board marks (and that too percentile marks).</p>
<p>So even if a deserving candidate screws up one, he still has a shot.</p>
<p>So you don’t think your grades throughout school should be looked at at all?</p>
<p>I think school grades need to be considered, first and foremost. It isn’t fair that people can just slog for two months before the boards and get into the college of their choice. Consistency really must be rewarded. And since forgery will definitely become an issue in such a system, that’s gotta be checked as well. I just don’t know how.</p>
<p>Looking at grades throughout school- NOOO!!! That would put a LOT more pressure ono studies and force them to study all the time instead of developing other parts of their personality. Though yeah, giving some sort of weightage to boards might work. But very lil. Boards totally suck at measuring a person’s caliber. Maybe more weightage to olympiad qualification exams and national scholarships like NTSE, KVPY etc. and NSO/NSTSE.</p>
<p>Dude, the American system looks at marks throughout school and it works quite well, and people certainly develop their personality. I don’t think olympiads and stuff should play a role.</p>
<p>You don’t? I don’t mind solving a few beautiful, conceptual and truly mind expanding questions. But I can’t stand mugging up stupid E.Ed stuff or even a random physics defination(Remember the Fleming’s incident) and then messing up the next day just coz I didn’t use ‘keywords’ and expressed my ideas with originality or made a tiny calculation error.
And I don’t feel that I am flawed or undeserving to think this way. The Board system is rotten. Not my fault that it sucks.</p>
<p>Yes, the syllabus needs to be completely overhauled. In the 11th and 12th, what we need to study should be similar to the APs. And all the mugging crap needs to be cut out, completely. E. Ed should be a practicals-based subject.</p>
<p>Olympiads and stuff should play a role the way that major-related ECs play a role. Really, I feel the American system works best - except it’s just so unreliable when it comes to the selective colleges.
You know what I really wish? That we had different levels of studying stuff like they have abroad - Honors, APs, whatever. I get so bored with the rate the rest of the class goes sometimes.</p>
<p>I knoooooooooow.</p>
<p>You can’t look at school grades’ Firstly 'cause there’s so much of disparity b/w marking schemes and even the course we follow.
Secondly, students from economically backward sections of the society would be disadvantaged.</p>
<p>I’m not saying the board system is perfect,
Yes, even I’m ****ed of with people who mug everything up in the last two months, but the fact remains that the boards are the only platform that provides the same exams, the same course and the same method of evaluation as far as possible (it can be improved a lot) </p>
<p>And face reality guys. We have atleast 10 times the number of students, half the number of teachers and a pathetic school system.
In an ideal world, the American system would work the best but not in India.</p>
<p>Our consensus is pretty much this: the Indian system is too screwed up to reform because nothing’s gonna work.</p>
<p>Oh happy day.</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s the standard Indian consensus- That we’re totally screwed and no one can unscrew our fates. <_< Didn’t expect this from you. Even as a joke…
You screwed the purpose of creating this thread itself!</p>
<p>Oh, I’m good. Very good :P.</p>
<p>For once, I was not poking fun tetris <_< I swear</p>
<p>Eh, ok.</p>
<p>But all I did was sum up what everyone said in response to each other in one concise, hurtful statement. The truth hurts, my friend.</p>
<p>The truth is just the present state of a variable…a variable nevertheless. The truth hurts not so much when it is hurtful as it does when it can’t be changed <_<</p>
<p>The variable is like a constant at the moment.</p>