collage exam in india

• Teens are obsessed on getting into their collage of their choice.
• The competition to get into the collage is very hard it has caused cut off scores to raise
• Some students start studying 5 months in advance.
• Kids have to wait 2 months to get their scores they also take 5 exams in a month.
• they take a total of 11 highschool board exams and also some pre exams .
• some students just to get into a collage will take as much as 22 exams.
• testing is an obsession for families of high school students.
• Tutors publicly display practice-test results and update parents with text messages comparing the scores of their child against those of others.
•  Students spend months preparing for tests, or worrying about them.

''We have to keep them under pressure'' one mother says

• the same mother also says ''We have no other choice.''
• India has one of the world’s youngest populations, often called its “demographic dividend,” yet as the middle class has steadily grown, so has the cutthroat competition for the limited slots in the country’s system of higher education.
• High school seniors must pass national board exams to graduate from high school. But those same board exams also serve as the rough equivalent of SATs for students applying to most programs in many universities
•  testing season has mutated into a period of excruciating pressure for students and their families.
•  The pressure is so intense that a leading diabetes clinic in New Delhi this month attributed a sharp spike in patients with high blood sugar or elevated blood pressure
•  Last week, an 18-year-old student in New Delhi hanged himself from a ceiling fan at home after leaving a suicide note worrying that he had not done well on part of the 12th-grade board exam.
• The mania over testing underscores a fundamental disconnect in Indian education: Even as elite Indian students have achieved remarkable success studying overseas, the Indian educational system is widely considered to be failing both the tens of millions of students at the bottom, who drop out before high school, and the smaller pool at the top, who are competing for entrance into universities that are too few and too underfinanced.
• experts warn that the future advantages of India’s youthful population could become a disadvantage if the government cannot improve the system rapidly enough to provide more students a chance at college.
•  Of the 186 million students in India, only 12.4 percent are enrolled in higher education, one of the lowest ratios in the world.

“If you have 150 million or 160 million children who don’t go to college, what is going to happen to them 10 or 15 years from now?” asked Kapil Sibal

• Education reform has become a centerpiece of the Congress Party-led government. The federal Right to Education Act takes effect on April 1, focusing on expanding free and compulsory education, lowering teacher ratios and a host of other goals, even as the government continues to separately push forward on a major school construction program.
• Higher education presents a problem of quantity and quality. Even as India’s top students are world class, most Indian universities are not, with roughly two-thirds of colleges and universities rated below standard.