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Post by Jeremiah Mburuburu Thu May 17, 2012 2:37 am

so says india today, based on a survey of 55,000 graduates. an excerpt:

"A bag is full of 20 bananas and no other fruit. Rajeev draws a fruit from the bag. What is the probability that he will draw a banana?

An embarrassing 30 per cent of the country's engineers cannot solve a problem as simple as the one above, a study has found. Their ineptitude, however, is not limited to just sums of probability.

It's worse as over one-third engineers do not possess mathematical skills needed in day-to-day life for doing simple transactions, counting and arranging. In other words, they have a weak understanding of concepts as elementary as decimals, powers, operations, ratio, fractions and the ability to apply these concepts to real-world problems."

Read more at:

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/india-engineering-graduates-cannot-solve-simple-mathematical-problems/1/187668.html

-- india today

i also read a brief version of this in tunku varadarajan's column in this week's newsweek magazine.

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Post by artood2 Thu May 17, 2012 2:58 am

This does not sound correct. I hope some of this analysis is not based on multiple choice questions. People often fill them randomly when running out of time. There is also a possibility of trying to gain publicity from it for their venture.
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Post by MaxEntropy_Man Thu May 17, 2012 7:38 am

the study was done by an organization called aspiring minds. so indian engineers have minds that are still in the aspiring stage. one day they will be able to actually solve these simple problems. until then they'll aspire.
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Post by Marathadi-Saamiyaar Thu May 17, 2012 9:50 am

artood2 wrote:This does not sound correct. I hope some of this analysis is not based on multiple choice questions. People often fill them randomly when running out of time. There is also a possibility of trying to gain publicity from it for their venture.

If you can't improve the student's education, dumb down the education to the students' level.

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