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Post by Rishi Fri Jul 12, 2013 12:30 pm

http://businesstoday.intoday.in/story/brand-iit-losing-sheen/1/194169.html


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Post by Rishi Fri Jul 12, 2013 12:39 pm

"We are getting good students. Whether we are getting the best students is difficult to say in an elimination exam with this ratio. Somebody who is very good but didn't get coaching and didn't know the strategy of time management may lose out to somebody who does not have that spark. It could be matter of a few marks," Ramamurthi, the IIT Madras director, acknowledges, and hastens to add, "If I have gone for coaching, I am taught how to decide when a question is beyond my capability and move on. But the instinct of any bright student is to 'let me take this up and do it'. He may waste too much time on a question."

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Post by Marathadi-Saamiyaar Fri Jul 12, 2013 6:41 pm

Rishi wrote:"We are getting good students. Whether we are getting the best students is difficult to say in an elimination exam with this ratio. Somebody who is very good but didn't get coaching and didn't know the strategy of time management may lose out to somebody who does not have that spark. It could be matter of a few marks," Ramamurthi, the IIT Madras director, acknowledges, and hastens to add, "If I have gone for coaching, I am taught how to decide when a question is beyond my capability and move on. But the instinct of any bright student is to 'let me take this up and do it'. He may waste too much time on a question."  

I am with him. My thoughts exactly.... Exam tests not just knowledge, but also timing, guesswork, rote-training, environment, and the day of reckoning....but intelligence? - I doubt an exam will test that.

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