In last two months much has been written about those who cleared JEE 2010. Both print and electronic media covered the story of students who cleared IIT JEE. Most of these news contents projected them as heroes and the best minds in the country. No doubt they have done a brilliant job and three cheers to them.
But I have few questions about the credibility of JEE 2010. The standard of questions and various errors which were present especially in the Hindi medium paper were a subject of discussion in the media after the examination. A written petition was also filed in Delhi high court to reorganize the examination which was later dismissed by the court. But it certainly raised some serious question about the standard of examination which is rated best in the country. In past years also some questions were raised against the transparency of examination pattern of JEE and the cut off marks being set by them in particular subjects to eliminate candidates.
At the time when everybody is complaining about increasing stresses in students due to studies and undue competition, giving such importance to a particular examination provokes the parents to consider their child who have not cleared IIT JEE as lame horse. They start believing that their child is far behind from those who cleared IIT JEE. No doubt IITs are premier engineering institutions of India but there are engineering colleges which has comparable standards to IITs at least in regard to the quality of students. Those who clear AIEEE and get rank below 10000 have faced much more competition where they competed almost 10 lack students as compared to 3 lacks in JEE.
Its high time when parents should realize that Engineering and medical are not the only fields where their child can excel. Even in engineering IITs are not the only best option, there are certain courses and colleges which are even better then IITs and some of their courses
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