Sunday, 19 June 2011

The Indian Education System



                My blood boils, when I read of suicides
                                                    Innocent youngsters ending their lives
                                                    Coz corrupt politicians and their king-size prides
                                                    Don't care about anyone but their wives

                                                    Be it the CPT or the IIT-JEE or just the boards
                                                    The seats are limited, and the aspirants so many
                                                    Depression is bound to come in this rat-race
                                                    Where learning is lost, for the sake of earning money

                                                     Hey kid, wanna go to India's most prestigious college?
                                                     Are you filthy rich? No! so you must be super smart?
                                                     No! Oh so you are applying under the reservations?
                                                     No! So what the heck are you doing here, you fart!
                                            
                                                    


Saturday, 18 June 2011

JEE kya?

Hello Guys and Girls,
             If you are reading this blog hoping that you would get a good advice of achieving a top rank in IIT-JEE, believe me, you are reading the wrong blog! I am an average person with a terrible rank (6204). But maybe I can tell you some of my mistakes, which really managed to screw up my performance. Lets start with my initial period of Jee preparation. I was dead serious about getting a good rank, but unfortunately there were 4 lakh others to give me company. I had scored 100 in Mathematics in my 10th boards, but unfortunately there were 1000 others who had done the same. So I knew I was playing a risky game.
                 Believe me, I wasn't dumb. Just two months down the lane, I used to solve the doubts of my felllow classmates and teach them the parts they failed to understand. I did not study myself but I took immense pleasure in helping others study. This is how I made the first mistake of my Jee preparation. I am not a person who likes to praise himself but still let me tell you an incident which happended after a year of studying for Jee. We had a Math class and our prof had given us an interesting sum to solve. The sum carried a prize amount of 500 bucks and guess what? I won it! I won it in a class where people like Kandarp (A.I.R - 13) were present! At that moment I realized that I had the potential to crack the Jee code with a decent rank. Actually everyone who got a rank as pathetic as mine had the potential. Who do we blame? The system? For keeping so much reservations that the General category is left with just 50% of the total seats? Or our professors? for not extracting the best in us? No dears, we blame ourselves for not just putting in enough! I have seen the amount of efforts Kandarp put in. It was really impressive! That guy survived the two years without television and facebook! Doesnt he deserve his rank? And moreover, do I deserve that? Here are the mistakes I made which really screwed my prospects of going into one of the prestigious IIT's
  1. Not studying when I had loads of time
  2. Spending loads of time on making useless timetables (how ironic!)
  3. Spending hours facebooking and playing Mafia Wars
  4. Spending hours watching the idiot box
  5. Not taking the mock tests seriously
  6. Keeping a lot of pending work
  7. Many more....
IIT-JEE is tough but definitely reachable for every aspirant who is hard-working, dedicated, commited and a bit intelligent!!:)