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<\/a><\/p>\nNarayana Murthy of the\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Infosys fame has openly\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0expressed his\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0displeasure over the\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0quality of IIT gradautes\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0these days. He pegs\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0down the problem to\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0the coaching culture\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0that sky rockets average\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0or below average\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0students into the\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0institute by teaching\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0them limited set of\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0questions asked in the\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0exam. According to Murthy, IITs need to overhaul its method of selecting students.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Saurabh Shukla, a Math teacher in a government school, analyses, \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cIITs are not made of amazing\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0buildings or excellent professors. It is made by the IITians. The slightly smarter candidates you get out of\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0JEE go to the IITs have to undergo bureaucracy and red tapism for four years. On the other hand,\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0students at other good universities abroad like Stanford or MIT can interact with their mentors freely.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0IITians study for fancy jobs and top salaries while students there are encouraged to work day and night\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0on things they are really passionate about. The kind of environment students has makes all the\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0difference to the outcomes. IITians who do pursue their real interests have done well worldwide too.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p>\n
Indra Singhal, an IIT Kharagpur alumnus, said, “Increasing the number of IITs has diluted Brand IIT\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0overall. The old IITs still retain a value to their name but if you are from a new IIT, no one knows you.”\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0New IITs, mostly located in smaller cities and towns, fail to attract good faculty or provide top-notch\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0facilities like old IITs.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0A 2012 IIT-K passout shares, “The biggest secret IITs is hiding is that along with the brightest students it\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0harbours, there are some dumbest students in its pack too. 70% of my batch had no practical\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0knowledge about our subjects. Some of my batchmates who had A grade in wireless communications\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0didn’t even know how voice propagates simultaneously in both directions on a single telephone wire (in\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0landlines).”<\/p>\n
Another IIT passout agreed, “One of the guys got an ‘EX’ (for excellent) in the lab even though he didn’t\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0knew how to perform many of the experiments. The marks were awarded to nice graphs he made and\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0not how he completed the experiment. I have known many IITians who did not attend any classes,\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0submitted a fake medical report, and then emerged with nice grades in the subject. IITians watch more\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0porn, movie shows or TV than housewives!” Ashok Mittal, an IIT student, said, “Curriculum at IITs is too boring and outdated. We learn subjects that\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0are of no use today. When the technology of the world is changing at a lightning speed, what kind of\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0engineers would wans to be stuck with the decade-old courses? Students and faculty at IIT are both\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0equally uninterested in what they are doing. Students are often physically or mentally absent in the\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0classes while professors are boring and just concerned about completing the courses somehow.”\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0It is high time for us to see what we are\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153missing\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 here and revamp IIT education\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0system and its selection criteria to make\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0it more relevant to the present times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" IIT JEE is hailed as the most difficult exam in the world. Yet, the quality of engineers IITs produce has\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0failed to propel Brand IIT higher in world university rankings. Someone has rightly said, \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cJEE is like IRCTC\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Tatkal Booking.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0There are 0.004% chances that you will crack the exam and yet, it does not mean that\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0you have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n