The Translation of the above simply states that, the
students from Andhra Pradesh who got good ranks in IIT are just doing average
in studies after joining the IIT colleges.
Now here is my deep in-sight on how this can happen? Who is
responsible for that? And how can we avoid this?
Where these students belong to?
In AP state, Education is a successful business, many
people understood that, and started their own institutes; those are the so
called “Corporate Colleges”. Almost all big cities like Visakhapatnam,
Hyderabad and Vijayawada etc. in AP having countless branches.
In other words these are the factories in which they
manufacture NO.1 GRADE donkeys every year. A typical college looks like a multi
storied apartment where they will treat students according to their talent.
They implement the Grade system very fast in the first couple of months and
came to know who their rankers are. These short listed students are their
investment for next year. This separate bunch of students will get the BEST
faculty and REST will get the ordinary stuff as they really don’t bother about
the rest.
How they landed in these colleges?
Every Corporate College now has a separate wing, which
deals with this talent hunt program. They visit almost every possible school in
the town and make a list of the toppers in the school. Once these students complete
their 10th Class / SSC, they follow-up them and convince even their
parents to join them. They offer free or discounted packages in education as
these are the students which can make the college name and fame in future. More
than 95% people falls in to the trap and the cycle continues like this, every
year.
Parents Psychology towards these students
Now lets see how the other students are joining, who are
not rankers in their Schools. Parents play a vital role here in this stuff;
they see the ADS and Rank Boards and will start dreaming that their kids are
the future rankers. Now they start blaming the school from where his kid
completed his SSC and feels like because of the school only, his kid got low
marks and nothing wrong with his talent.
Here comes the punch dialog from the parents, “now I am
giving you one more opportunity to prove your talent and I am paying you the
complete package fee (minimum Rs.30,000 to maximum Rs.1,00,000 per year) for
IIT and giving you the Best college. So I think this time you surely make use
of all these facilities and make us proud in front of all”.
Students Psychology towards education
After Joining these colleges now the students will come to
know they are joined a Factory. There will be nothing left with them in their
life apart from education…sorry sorry Training. As the famous dialog from 3
Idiots say, “ these students are well trained…not well educated”. In other words they are developing more
“Chatur Ramalingams” than “Ranchos”.
There will be no sports, no movies, no masti, no xyz and
etc..The worst part of all is even, when their parents come to see these students,
they also talk about their education only.
In many cases we find that the students commit suicide
because of the constant pressure that they receive from all.
I really don’t know what they gain in these 2 years, but I
can surely say what have lost will be the most beautiful and valuable time of
their lives. I pity them.
What Happens after Results?
For all those students who got ranks, the below people will
be happy:
Student – [Thank God!! I got a good rank else I might be a
mental patient]
College Staff – [I know this person is sure shot
ranker]
Parents – [So Happy…We can make all our relatives jealous
with his rank]
On the other side of the coin, let’s see the reactions of
non-rankers group:
Student – [I given my best, no one can do better than this]
College Staff – [I know this person is not capable]
Parents – [So Sad…All the money got wasted, how to face relatives
now?]
What happens after these Rankers join IIT?
The first couple of days they feel that their hard work is paid-off
and feel like they are going to top the IIT engineering as well. Slowly the
reality takes over their over-confidence and they come to know, what education
is all about.
Now this bunch of students gets suffocated with the new
teaching style which they never came across before. No idea on how to deal with
reality makes them fail in the first semester itself. Some students take a step
forward and reach professors asking them for notes, which made them surprised.
Time for a change
Things that Parents need to remember before they opt for a
Corporate College are:
Parents shouldn’t fall into the cheap tricks that these
colleges play. Whenever an AD comes every college will talk and show about
their first 100 ranks only. Think about the rest of the ranks too, as your kid
may end up getting a rank which is more than 100.
Don’t blame your kids when they don’t get good ranks. Try
to ask any College Management to give a list of ranks of all students in that
collage and see; no one will give, as the strength of each college will be more
than 10,000 – 20,000. Then this common sense question will come into picture,
why the hell all the colleges talk about 1st 100 ranks as the
students are in lakhs when we join all the college students’ strength.
No body can be a better judge than parents when it comes to
their children’s future but they should know what his kid is really passionate
about? Well that can be anything like music, sports, arts, etc.
Parents should understand and accept the limitations of
their kids and think whether they can make it or not, before they commit to
something which deals with their capabilities.
Just because Parents paid a huge fees, the kid’s talent
will not raise in an over night and become super heroes. They should understand
the difference between quality education and the non-sense training.
I will wait for that day where the education standerds
raise in India.
