I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer than I am.

Coaching should be banned! But why? The rona-dhona (R&D) around coaching institutes has again started. And this R&D from the public is very typical of knee-jerk reaction(s) that we accuse the governemnt and bureaucracy of taking. Let's start with a fundamental question - Why do coaching institutes exist? (I'll restrict myself to engineering and medical) Because the depth and breadth of subjects in entrance examinations is much more expansive than that of standard education imparted in schools. Given our population, and couple that with the reservation pressure on seat availability in general category, the competition is insane. Tough entrance examination high application to seat ratio means only the best will survive. But can our schools provide the depth and breadth of learning, pratics and mock tests to aspiring students? No. And this is on two counts- (1) Assuming there are 4-5 kids in Class 11 of a regular school who are genuinely capable of cracking JEE, can the teacher focus on them by putting them on a separate track? In most cases, no is the answer. Simpley because they've to care for rest of the 30-35 students in the class as well. (2) But the larger problem is that are the regular teachers themselves capable of teaching kids the kind of complexity and breadth required to be covered as part of JEE preparation? - Again, with exceptions, the simple answer is NO. - One of the key attributes of coaching industry is that it attracts the brightest of teachers by paying them insance salaries. - When FIIT-JEE and Akash were at its peak, we used hear compensation in crores for top teachers. - Such capable teachers will never work in a school which pay peanuts. - BTW, look at the dichotomy here - Most parents want government to cap school fees, and also want the per annum increase in school charges to be governed. All this ultimately impacts the ability of the school on how much salary it can pay to teachers and accordingly, the quality of teachers it can attract. But they want school teachers to be capable enough to help their kids crack JEE, NEET and Science Olympiads !!!🤣 - And this problem get multiplied by 100 when it comes to children from government schools across the country. - Everyone knows the status of government schools in India. - As they say - Everyone wants a job as a teacher in a government school but no one wants to send their children to government schools. - From what I've seen on social media, a lot of kids from marginal backgrounds and small cities, towns and villages are able to crack various entrance examinations because of Online coaching (live and pre-recorded). - The Online coaching would be the first instance where these kids would've come face to face with focused and in-depth education on their subjects. - Without online coaching, these kids don't stand a chance in hell in cracking some of these entrance examinations because they simply don't have the means or exposure. --------------- - There might be 00s of things wrong with the structure of coaching system in India but closing the coaching system is not the answer. PS: I've no personal stake in coaching system.

Claims like below show a lack of understanding of basic statistics. When there are 60,000 students, some will have large gaps in marks for two papers. Chebychev's inequality quantifies it. It has been the case in JEE Advanced since two papers were introduced. 😊

Im also thinking about this. Stop sending children to CBSE. Start looking at IB/Cambridge syllabus in Indian schools. If children want to opt for medical career, then UCAT/BMAT exams will help entry into good foreign universities. If anyone has experience in this switch, please discuss here. I have lost complete faith in this country and its pseudoscience infiltrated educational system.

NEET, CBSE and the glitch with CUET today!