Orissa’s dismal performance in IIT entrance examinations; no one cares
July 16th, 2007
The Telegraph has an article titled "IIT wake-up bell for backbencher Bengal" where it rues the low performance of students from Bengal in the IIT entrance exams. It concludes with: "Fewer students from Bengal in the IITs and IIMs mean fewer decision makers of tomorrow from Bengal." Orissa has been doing much worse than Bengal, but hardly anyone in Orissa is worried about it. Its time decision makers in Orissa, start worrying about it and taking corrective actions.
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1. Bipin Bisoyi | July 16th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
Yes. I agree. Our Higher Secondary system needs to be revamped to match with the all India level entrance tests. West Bengal Govt. is trying it and the results are encouraging. The +2 education system in Orissa is more in line with NCERT curriculum when compared to WB Higher Secondary Board. Hence, it should be possible.
Anyway, a number of coaching centers (some with all India presence) have mushroomed in Orissa. I fondly hope that they will deliver some good results.
2. Piyush Patnaik | July 17th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
The problem is not with the curriculum because students from the state irrespective of their background (State Board/CBSE/ICSE) have performed badly in IIT JEE. The attitude of students and teachers in the state is the main cause of this dismal performance.Very few teachers encourage their students to crack IIT.The students are made to believe that it is almost impossible to crack the IIT JEE.Most of the students aim for the state JEE or AIEEE. States like Maharashtra and Andhra have much easier syllabus but they manage to get large number of seats.
3. kuna meher | July 18th, 2007 at 7:40 am
sir, please confirm me that what is the chances of getting a seat in top ten engineering colleges of orissa having electricronic & telecommunication subject as my sister having rank in jee-07 3152 in GEWO category & 11213 in GE category. kindly inform me imeediately in my mail m_kuna1976@yahoo.co.in
4. Umashankar | July 18th, 2007 at 11:50 am
IIT JEE has undergone a lot of change since earliar days. From my time, one of the key observations I had was Lecturers used to distinguish between IIT and +2.
Everybody used to think that IIT cannot be cracked..Even students who aimed for it were not given proper support.
The need right now, is to get a pool of students through a scholarship exam and then train them using professional instructors possibly like ex-professors from IIT.
5. saroj patnaik | April 6th, 2008 at 12:04 am
no its totally wrong that orissa perform better in iit jee. right now i m doing mtech in iit kharagpur( mech engg). i know in BTech (mech and manufacturing) toppers are oriya students and around 10 students are in mechanical engg deptt.i really love orissa and its culture.