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Unbelievable omg chicken out twice????? simple very shameful
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I dont know how is all this possible. When I came to Canada after doing my grade 10 in India I was put into high school. I did my grade 11 and 12 here and frankly it was a breeze. I almost skipped all the my classes and still gotv 94%. Got into the best engineering school in Canada with a scholorship. I had simply no trouble due to strong basics from India.
Exactly after grade 10 all Indian students care about is the IIT exam which by FARRR is the toughest entrance exam in the world. They don't care about olympiads or PISA etc etc. I didn't even know they these things existed.
This is the utter B.S that I've heard from the Indian community. Once upon a time, I had a req open for an engineer. I was of course sent all resumes from the Indian community as the recruiter I was dealing with was an Indian guy (that's what happens now in majority of the US. You guys send your people vs. who's really talented or on merit). Now, I asked this guy if anyone who happens to be a local American applied for this position and that the economy is bad and 13 million Americans are out of work. His answer was that, I've given you the best of the best. These guys either came from IIT or were in there.
I then asked him to send me ALL resumes of ALL applicants, irrespective of this IIT crap. His boss got involved and he shared all resumes with me (he was forced to). I was SURPRISED to see a resume from the MIT and a couple of schools like NYU and Harvard. I was SO mad. I asked this guy if he thought MIT was inferior to the IIT. His answer was yes, the IIT is THE BEST institution in the world. Both his boss and I were just surprised and dumb founded. Not sure how to get him out of his Indian mentality. I then went on to say, just so you know, the light bulb and majority of today's inventions came out of the MIT or its programs or due to its participation. He was so adamant that he refused to agree. Anyway, this was JUST ONE story of how the IIT is thrown to world as the most sacred cow on the planet. It is NOT the case so please. Don't tell us that. People go to MIT and other institutes from across the world. I've yet to see people in the US, Japan, the UK or the France getting excited that they got accepted into the IIT. But, getting into the MIT and the likes is considered a life achievement. Even I was hoping to get in there.
Given a choice between MIT and IIT for undergrad, I, with out even blinking, would choose IIT, however for graduation I would certainly choose MIT.
You don't have any idea how tough it is to get into the top 7 IITs. Students prepare the exams for almost 4 to 5 years a stretch. 5,00,000 students fight for just 3,000 seats.
Cool story bro but I know this is made up. Anyways nice try.This is the utter B.S that I've heard from the Indian community. Once upon a time, I had a req open for an engineer. I was of course sent all resumes from the Indian community as the recruiter I was dealing with was an Indian guy (that's what happens now in majority of the US. You guys send your people vs. who's really talented or on merit). Now, I asked this guy if anyone who happens to be a local American applied for this position and that the economy is bad and 13 million Americans are out of work. His answer was that, I've given you the best of the best. These guys either came from IIT or were in there.
I then asked him to send me ALL resumes of ALL applicants, irrespective of this IIT crap. His boss got involved and he shared all resumes with me (he was forced to). I was SURPRISED to see a resume from the MIT and a couple of schools like NYU and Harvard. I was SO mad. I asked this guy if he thought MIT was inferior to the IIT. His answer was yes, the IIT is THE BEST institution in the world. Both his boss and I were just surprised and dumb founded. Not sure how to get him out of his Indian mentality. I then went on to say, just so you know, the light bulb and majority of today's inventions came out of the MIT or its programs or due to its participation. He was so adamant that he refused to agree. Anyway, this was JUST ONE story of how the IIT is thrown to world as the most sacred cow on the planet. It is NOT the case so please. Don't tell us that. People go to MIT and other institutes from across the world. I've yet to see people in the US, Japan, the UK or the France getting excited that they got accepted into the IIT. But, getting into the MIT and the likes is considered a life achievement. Even I was hoping to get in there.
Here we go. SAME propaganda again. You are missing the point, IIT may be good according to Indian standards, but it's not MIT or even close to it or Harvard or Yale. Just the fact.
Also, IIT may be one good Indian school per Indian standards and it caters 'smart kids' from a population pool of 1.2 billion people. So of course, from such a big population pool, they will be selective.
stop talking as though you are really special, your kind of experiences happened every where, I m sure if I put an America kid in india school he will tell exactly the same story as you
Wrong, IIT entrance standards **** all over other universities anywhere in the world.
The teaching staff are just as qualified, however the equipment, funding etc are not up to par.
Here we go. SAME propaganda again. You are missing the point, IIT may be good according to Indian standards, but it's not MIT or even close to it or Harvard or Yale. Just the fact.
Also, IIT may be one good Indian school per Indian standards and it caters 'smart kids' from a population pool of 1.2 billion people. So of course, from such a big population pool, they will be selective.
@ChinaToday @orangzaib @shuttlerthe chinese and their south asian cheerleaders rant about some pizza test while indian students prepare for the real stuff.
like this.
http://www.vidyarthiplus.com/vp/attachment.php?aid=3906
try it out, a 1 st round JEE quiz for high school students
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If you put a very smart American student into Indian system then maybe you could the similiar story. But if you put an average Indian or Chinese student into American school, trust me he will destroy anyone and get top marks. There is a reason why many Unis in North America especially Engineering are dominated by Indians and Chinese.
PISA is not the yardstick we subscribe to PERIOD ! Feel free to compare the performance of Indians in PHY/CHEM/MATHS international olympiads !
Figure 8 depicts the share of students in selected countries that surpasses the thresholds of 400 and 600 test-score points on the transformed scale of the combined international tests—the same measure and thresholds used in the prior growth analyses. When considering the basic educational achievement of students, the share of students surpassing the threshold of 400 tests core points is a rough threshold of basic literacy in mathematics and science.