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Hi Pravin
I'm Tatiana from Russia. I've been watching this site for about a month and I read all your stories about your country with great pleasure. India is very far from Saint-Petersburg but I hope to visit it some day.
It's a pity that you wasn't lucky for your exam. I hope that next time you'll be successful.
I'm interested whether education in India is paid. In Russia it's officially free but every university has paid section for those students who had not too high score in entrance test. 10-15 years ago the study of management and jurisprudence was very popular. As a result labour-market is overfilled with these specialists. Our president advised young people to think about engineering.
In our big cities competition is very high because people aspire to study at well-known universities. In small towns it's easier to pass exams. As for me I chose this way because of being apprehensive about entrance exams. I'm a musician and competition in our field is traditionally huge. Teachers do their work honestly and students who are keen on study become good specialists even in small town.
Looking forward to your next post,
Tatiana.

Hi
First I want to say 鈥渟orry鈥� for my English, I鈥檓 here to improve it.
I really like to read your stories about your country.
It鈥檚 always interesting to read about other education Systems.
I鈥檓 from Switzerland, here we have a very different System. It鈥檚 not natural that we go to a university or a other high school. The most young people do an 鈥漚pprenticeship鈥�, I鈥檓 not sure how it called in English. This apprenticeship begins after the obligate school. It鈥檚 a mix with school and practice Work. All professional you can learn with a apprenticeship, while 3-4 years, you have to work 3 days and 2 days you go to school. While this time you can make a higher diploma. After the apprenticeship, you can go to a engineering School with this Diploma. So here in Switzerland we prefer 鈥渓earning by doing鈥�.
Of course you can go a other way, the same way you have in India. With an 100% School week at an university.

I鈥檓 looking forward to your next post.

Swissmirj

Hi Pravin. I'm for Argentina and this's my firt comment.
I think I鈥檒l never be able to write as much as you do, in fact I don鈥檛 like to write very much.
Because of my job I always hear the name of your country. You people seem to be well prepared to compete with the rest of the world, especialy in Technology and Systems鈥� Development.
Regards.
Marcelo.

Dear Pravin,

I am sorry to hear that you didn't qualify to the next round in CAT. To be frank with you, I have failed in 3-4 subjects in college. But that was not the end of the day for me. I was always telling myself that it was an opportunity to show my worth. I am not saying it was easy nor hard, but it was challenging. There is also a nice quote I like to repeat it to myself, which is "Failure doesn't mean you have accomplished nothing, it does mean you have learned something".

I am sure in near future you will post another topic to share with us your success story about passing the exam. I am sure that you are up to it. We may ask then to bring chocolate. Just joking! ( I love chocolate by the way :D)

About your topic, it seems to me that you have got a professional hand in writing. I have learnt a lot of things from you as well and specially about your country when it comes to the educational system.

Looking forward to reading your next topic.

Take care pal.

Thank you.

Regards,
Rafea

Hi Pravin,

Sorry to hear that you had failed the exam to the high reputation university. I wish you a success next time.

Education system in your country is quite like in vietnam. We went to kinder garden, then primary school, then secondary school, then high school. After that, we have to pass the entrance exam to continue our study in one university. This exam is always very hard, high competitive with rate of about 1/50-500, up to university. I don't know how many university you can apply at the same time. At my time, 10 years ago, I could register as many school as I wished. But now, we accept only one application for one person, therefore, it is really high pressure for all student, especially to win for the technical university.

Is it free education in India? Not in here, we have to pay and the fee is quite high in comparing with average income. I hope we can get free education in the future at least for up to high school. That's the basic knowledge people deserve to.

Got to go now, nice reading your blog.

Take care.

Tran Thi Hong

@Tatiana: I totally agree with you comment that if someone is keen on study then he/she can do it any circumstances irrespective of the small or big town.
And yes. You are very lucky to be musician; also I can understand the competition in that field, as it requires a lot to prove the skill. Wish you best luck for the future.

@Swissmirj:
Hi Swiss, from your writing I can easily deduce that you got very humble nature.
Even I am also here, writing on this community to improve my English. I love Switzerland, and I want to visit the country one day. And it's really nice idea to earn while you learn. I like that culture very much, and I myself believe in practical knowledge than just boring theoretical knowledge. Wish u best luck

@Marcelo:
HI Marcelo, India is really gearing up to compete with rest of the world in terms of
Technology, but I really feel ashamed that there are many who indulge in corruption which really hinders the development of the country. Anyways, thanks for the comment and keep writing.

@Rafea:
Hi rafea, you know..I am very much encouraged by each inspiring word in your reply..
Really you gave me a strength to fight again...And I surely bring a box of chocolates for you once I get an admission for MBA in any of the good college in India. Thank you so much for inspiring comment

@Rosevn76:
HI Rosevn76...you know i was very much dejected when i had seen my result on the internet.
But anyways..That is part and partial of life, we have to live with it ..Which I described as a experiences in life..
Even in India we have to pay a hefty amount to get an admission to some of the colleges. Only in case of government run colleges we need to pay
very less amount, else it's not at all affordable for middle class families. They need to do lot many financial adjustment to get into good colleges and
complete the degree.

Hi there

Thank you Pravin. You painted a very clear picture of the state of the education in your country.

Anyway I wonder whether you could explain to me what you exactly mean for "In some villages teachers remain busy in making duplicate students data just to get enough funds for the school and keep the school running as in villages many of the families doesn't give much of the importance to the education as it need to be." please ?

Keep in touch

Hi Pravin

First of all congratulation for very interesting blog. I'm from Germany there is a big discussion about education underway. The educationsystems is devided into 4 different typs of schools.

Students are only learning between the grades 1 to 4 together. Then they will go to differently typs of schools. The leisure will decided, which typ they are able to visit. If you have better marks, you will be able to visit a school, which offer a higher level of education.

My question is: How is leisure measured your educationsystem? Do have marks and if you have, which mark is the worst and which is the best?


Again, it was a pleasure to reed your blog.

Kind regards

Thorsten

Hi Thorsten,
May I offer a little help? I think you may have been trapped by a bit of a "false friend": Leisure is another word for free time. So, if you talk about leisure, this will be understood to refer to hobbies, anything you like doing in your free time. What you were looking for was probably a word for "Leistung", right? This word is sometimes translated as "performance", sometimes as "achievement" or "accomplishment", depending on the precise context. Your questions about marks will clarify matters anyway, but I thought it might help avoid confusion if I added this comment. Hope I didn't offend you!! I definitely didn't mean to!!
Best wishes,
Elisabeth (Austria)

Hi Elisabeth

Thank you for correcting me. I'm not offend by your comments. I want to point out, that I meant performance and not leisure. I hope my Englisch teacher won't this!
Again, thank very much for correcting me

Take Care

Thorsten

Hello Pravin,
I come from Taiwan. Our education system is universal. There are two of the well known exams in Taiwan. All students enter the good schools if they have good grades in these exams. So all students have heavy pressures until admitted college. In Taiwan, college acceptance rate is ninety seven percent. Almost students have college. This is a trouble of education system. Almost everyone has college makes many students waste money to go to school. When we graduate from college, we may not find job. This is why our education system bad. India and Taiwan have different cultures and education system, but we still can be good friend.
Sincerely,
Jerry

Hello friend!
I couldn't give you any suggestions except few corrections. I am a graduate in J.N.U New Delhi. You may contact me on this mail id: ahsanj87@gmail.com

Here is your blog in the new form. If you have questions regarding it, feel free to ask me anything. We are not here, but only for sharing our knowledge and educations.
Hope you will enjoy reading your article.
"state of education in India...
Hi Again,
This time I just want to talk about education system in India. Overall the situation is good. But, only the problem is, how to get access into that education system. If you go to any metro city, in order to get good education, and build the overall personality of the candidate, you will find both aspects of education; positive as well as negative.
But on the other hand, at the same time, if you go to any village, you will hardly find a quality education. Teachers don't consider it as their routine job, and nobody cares of the improvement of student's aptitude. Fortunately if one becomes graduate he/she gathers some informations about good colleges and universities to pursue higher education. In some of the villages teachers remain busy in making duplicate students data only for having enough funds for the school, and keep the school running well. As in some villages many families don't give much of the importance to the education as it needs to be.

But one thing is noteworthy regarding Indian education system. Competitions are very high in all educational and professional fields. If one wants to get admission into the top colleges of India he/she has to face a tough competition. Two of the well known exams in India are IIT-JEE (entrance exam for IIT (Indian Institute of Technology)) and CAT (entrance exam for IIM (Indian Institute of management). One can appear for the first one after higher secondary education to pursue an engineering study (graduation) and second one i.e. CAT is for post graduate diploma in management. In my case I was not aware of the first exam (again the story of small town and lack of proper guidance), but I appeared for the second one and i didn't qualify for the next round because of my low score in entrance test.

Now there are 11 IIMs in India, 4 are introduced this year only. And yes, IIM Ahemadabad has occupied the number 11th best business school in the world, having second best salary figure after LSB. And ofcourse the competition is so high, that every year around 0.3 million students compete for those 1000 seats available in IIMs. Same is the case for IIT exams. There are other exams as well i.e. for medical and other courses but I am not really aware of them.

It is dream of all parents of Indian family that they want their children to do either engineering or medical. Apart from these exams, many students appear for IAS (Indian Administrative Services) exams, which again witness a very tough competition. Every year there use to be a cut throat competition for each available seat. This is all regarding competitive exams.

If we talk about grass root level, then there are many social organization like, Lead India and NGOs and save the children organization which contribute to improve the awareness of education among the poor and needy children who becomes the victim of 鈥淐hild Labor鈥� otherwise. If we talk about the statistics then there is really a need to improvements in education, as the number of people who are not having access to a good education is very high compared to the rich people who get higher education.

But since the induction of IT/software related job, things have change a lot and mindset of people are changing a lot and now in my own SMALL town you will find at least one engineer in 7-8 families.
Anyways that's all from my side. I think this is kind of topic which really needs a two way interaction to discuss upon. Waiting for your comments for the same".

By A.J.Khan

Hi Pravin
I'm from Mauritius,and I went to India in december 2009 for holidays after my o level exams. More than learning about new and interesting places in the country, The journey was a life experience.

I in toto agree with the point that accessibility to a good education is not the everywhere in your country. Moreover, as you have said everyone is in the rat race to reach the peak and hence I can make out that India is producing competitive individual in the world Market. However, we should note that India is not known for this aspect but instead India is most commonly known for poverty, lack hygienic conditions, infectious diseases,slums and ,as you have mentioned,corruption. Why this my friend?

Well, I have learnt a lot from you. Thanks a lot buddy
Best of luck

Anindita.g
Best of luck