‘UNESCO Praised IIT-JEE Exam for mitigating Over-population by causing students to suicide.’
Well, did you feel hatred or an urge to confront the one who said this?
Then Let me delineate you, this faking news can be soon a breaking news if students keep seeing the IIT JEE Examination in the light of a “DO OR DIE ” phenomenon. IIT has unintendedly emerged as a National Swag (Even more than Dhinchak Pooja) giving a certificate or degree to establish you as a Demigod. Today IIT is not merely a chain of Educational Institutes, it is a religion in India, blindly followed by many fashion-driven students.
Different perspectives of IITs existing today:
Parents: Indian Institute of Tashan
Students: Indian Institute of Tension
So hereby, as a victim of fashion I urge all Parents to please play sports, but not with the passion of your children. If IIT is everything, why do we have legends from India in Science, Math, Sports, Entertainment Entrepreneurship and more?
Why students think that JEE has just two outcomes “Success or Suicide “. (Although after they do not qualify, they are compensated with Amity or Lovely)
But shouldn’t it be understood that suicide is not merely the death of a student, but the death of our education policy. The competitive examinations system and its auxiliary, the massive (and massively lucrative) coaching industry, are part of a broader educational landscape where rote-learning forms the basis of success and failure. These are killing the fields of education in more ways than one. They demand extraordinary capacities of mechanical learning, which have little relation to creative thinking that provides solutions – scientific, technical, social – to societal problems. This is not an individual failure of the imagination, for everyone who seek to better themselves through their own circumstance. Rather, it is a policy failure: the death of public imagination that can create a social-useful but also individually hopeful educational system.
Is Suicide even an Option, If you failed in the IIT-JEE?
Well If IIT is life, then your family is larger than life. Suicide is a momentous death for you, but a lifetime grief for your family. This article of Storypick makes it crystal clear in an encouraging tone- http://www.storypick.com/answer-to-those-who-flunked-iit/
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