Education is the future of the country, and attaching importance to education is investing in the future. It is only in this respect that our country believes in collectivism, common progress, and no one is lost, while many capitalist countries are more willing to invest time, energy, and money in the right people and things. This includes India, a neighbour that has always been used against our country in the international community.
As a country with a population second only to China, India's situation is not optimistic. The gap between the rich and the poor is large, and the class is solidified. Limited educational resources are relatively concentrated in high-level families.
Ten years of cold window grinding a sword, Chinese students study hard for 12 years, in the college entrance examination fell an important stroke to determine the future of life. India is no exception. Even in comparison, India's college entrance examination is far more intense than China's.
Indian student
In fact, it is said that it is a college entrance examination, and India's college entrance examination is not the same as China's. India does not have a nationally harmonized examination paper. After completing 12 years of education (equivalent to completing high school in China), it is first necessary to take an important graduation exam. To some extent, this exam can benchmark China's college entrance examination.
But this exam is only a qualification, the specific school to go to, but also to participate in the school's independent examination, the time is about April to June every year, candidates can choose the school of their choice according to their own situation to take the exam.
This is a bit like the school recruitment that has been popular in China in recent years. And because of the lack of quantitative restrictions, many candidates will take many exams in order to be able to compete for a relatively better school and keep the current stable school. This kind of thinking is like volunteering to fill in the college entrance examination process, keeping the insurance major, and continuing to apply for a higher level. Essentially, it's all about wanting to go to a better school.
It is also because of this educational situation that many children have to apply for multiple tutoring institutions. The price of private tutoring institutions is often very high, and ordinary families often have to rely on the academic pressure of students' own efforts because they cannot support this expenditure, which doubles the pressure on students. It is reported that a quarter of the annual student suicide cases in India are related to the failure of the college entrance examination.
Like the Chinese gaokao, parents of test takers in India will accompany them to the exam and rent a school district room. In India, for the sake of their children's education, parents of ordinary families cannot afford the high cost of renting, and families can only live in small rooms of less than 40 square meters.
It can be said that all the wealth has been pressed to the college entrance examination. And India's college entrance examination is in the hottest period of the year in India, the weather is hot, the environment is harsh, this kind of house does not have heat dissipation measures, it is very difficult to survive.
Indian students in difficult conditions
After elaborating on the basic form of the Indian college entrance examination, next, let's look at the difficulty of the Indian college entrance examination.
The first point is the "large number of people", About 10 million students in India participate in the examination every year, but the lack of educational resources, there are only 300 local universities in India, so there are less than 3 million students who can enter undergraduate studies. If China's college entrance examination is a thousand troops crossing a single wooden bridge, then the Indian college entrance examination can only be worse than that.
The second point is "miscellaneous knowledge", because colleges and universities have considerable autonomy, not only their own propositions, but also the scope of examination of the same major is also quite different. Therefore, the scope of knowledge examined is relatively broad, so it takes a lot of time and energy. This invisibly compresses the cold students' and the first chance.
The third point is that "management is difficult", because it is not a national unified organization of examinations, there are no corresponding strict regulations. Therefore, in the process of college entrance examination, the intermediate links have great operability. As a result, India's college entrance examinations and cases of corruption and fraud have been repeatedly prohibited. This is undoubtedly a blow to the credibility of the government, and it is even more questionable about the fairness of the test.
The fourth point is that "cheating is a common practice", and for the above reasons, the cheating situation in the Indian college entrance examination is very serious. Nails, water bottles, pens, are all tools for students to cheat. Many years ago, there was a picture circulating on the Internet of parents of Indian test takers climbing down a rope to the exam room to hand out test answers to their children.
Indian college entrance examination cheating photos circulating online
This picture is mostly used as evidence for India's open-minded people at all times, but it is also an extremely sad thing under India's national conditions. And because of the stakes, the proctor teacher doesn't care about these things. In some politically clear states, various ways may be adopted to limit cheating, but in some states with gray political conditions, cheating is a process for students to take the exam.
Such a college entrance examination is a variety of drawbacks in our view, and it is even more so in the eyes of Indian education experts. They can learn more about it and know more about the darkness in it. They believe that such a college entrance examination is "problematic" and "unhealthy", but they have been shouting for many years without getting corresponding measures. Even the Indian government's allocation for education is decreasing year by year.
For now, the college entrance examination is still the fastest opportunity to change people's destiny for Indian students, especially middle and low-class students. So it is not difficult to understand why the Indian education department made a move to take the college entrance examination on time in the face of the new crown ravages a few days ago.
After all, the college entrance examination has pinned all the hopes of many families to reverse the class. In such a high-pressure environment, most families would rather risk the college entrance examination on time than postpone it.
The poor people of India
Similarly, India's college entrance examination, like China's college entrance examination, has a popular major. Such specialties in China could be computing, medicine, and economics. In India, the most popular subject is science and engineering, so the score line for admission is also very high. Among the polytechnics, the universities equivalent to the general status of Tsinghua in China are called the Indian Institute of Technology.
At first glance, it feels like a garbage school that doesn't fit in. It's not too accurate to call it a college, because it's actually made up of a series of elite colleges. It's a bit like a university system at the University of California, with seven major campuses and dozens of spin-off higher education institutions.
The institution was born in August 1951, when Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said that he would build a high-tech college with Indian characteristics, benchmarking the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States. On this basis, the Indian Institute of Technology was born.
Indian Institute of Technology
From this point of view, this school has no historical background to speak of, but for the scientific research industry, the historical background only limits the thinking. The admission scores of these departments are extremely high, and the best of them, Mumbai Institute of Technology, has an acceptance rate of only 2%, which is far lower than Tsinghua, and even much lower than that of MIT in the United States.
Applying for the Indian Institute of Technology series of universities, you have to go through two rounds of examinations, the first round will brush down 40% of the candidates, and the remaining candidates will also go through the second round of unified examination, by the Indian Institute of Technology teachers to read the papers, the scores are arranged from high to low, and the admission is excellent.
Even if there is little hope and the threshold is extremely high, many students still apply to this school every year. In addition to the high admission score line, the school also has a corresponding score line limit for students' individual subjects.
The admission requirements require that students not only have excellent overall grades, but also cannot lag behind a lot in various subjects, and fundamentally eliminate the phenomenon of partial subjects. It is conceivable that such a strict filter condition, the natural selection is what kind of arrogance of the sky.
Such a school naturally has a turning effect on life. In India, if you are admitted to the Indian Institute of Technology, it means that your life will be on the way to glory.
The current situation of the college entrance examination in India
As a world-renowned top institution, students of the Indian Institute of Technology are valued by major companies before graduation, and before graduation, a flood of offers has fallen into the hands of outstanding students like snowflakes.
So while other students are still struggling for jobs, the elite of the Indian Institute of Technology has already chosen a tree among the invitation letters of various companies in Silicon Valley. The gap between the two is so large that people can't help but sigh.
What is even more surprising is that according to unofficial statistics, the salaries of students graduating from the Indian Institute of Technology are about 20 times that of ordinary colleges. It is not difficult to understand that the subjects that Indian Polytechnic are best at are subjects related to high-tech industries.
As we all know, this is the direction of the big hit in recent years, and the profits are also quite rich, and there have long been rumors that "Silicon Valley gives birth to more than 60 millionaires every day." Even if you can't become a rich man, you can easily achieve it without worry.
From the perspective of these students, this is certainly a good thing. But at the national level, this is a wake-up call. All the talent goes to Silicon Valley, hoping to make a career there, but no one wants to stay and build their own country.
This has led to indians at the forefront of many high-tech industries in the world, but India's own high-tech industry development is not comparable to other countries. In essence, the Indian Institute of Technology is just a backyard warehouse for European and American capitalists to extract talents.
How to attract and retain talent is the first issue that the Indian government should consider now.
Indians in Silicon Valley
There are always people on the Internet who attack China's college entrance examination as unfair and full of all kinds of unfair treatment, and even smear our country with this. This kind of behavior is really shameful. As far as the college entrance examination is concerned, although there may be some problems at the current stage, the college entrance examination is also in the process of continuous reform. Compared with the Indian college entrance examination, the Chinese college entrance examination is a very complete system.
Some people advocate the right of Indian universities to choose independently, but they may not be able to bear the consequences of the ensuing large amount of fraud and the waste of a lot of time and energy. Although China's unified examination system is a test-oriented education and looks rigid in knowledge, all rights are returned to the state, which greatly guarantees the fairness of the examination and avoids the phenomenon of fraud in the process of college entrance examination.
Chinese College Entrance Examination
Objectively compared, the two college entrance examination systems have their own advantages and disadvantages. Why should we increase the morale of others and destroy our own prestige? The development of any country needs a process, blindly looking at it with a strict eye, naturally it will never be a satisfactory day.
In the eyes of patriots, such "dissatisfaction" is a spur to hope that the motherland is better; in the eyes of those who hate the country, such "dissatisfaction" is a curse, mocking the motherland, and handing out knives to reactionary forces abroad.