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Introduction
In recent years, IIT-JEE has become kind of a mania. In the past 4 years, number of IIT-JEE aspirants have rose by around 1 lakh. No wonder, numerous IIT coaching institutes mushroomed in these years. But it has to be accepted that every coaching institute cannot be trusted to guide a student to his/her destination. A category of people have made coaching institutes their business that flourishes at the expense of careers of innocent, ignorant kids. It has to be accepted that not only clearing IIT-JEE is a tough task but also training students to prepare for it is equally tough. It requires detailed planning of syllabus, dedicated team of intellectually stimulated faculty and especially, faculty members who have children's success as their prime objective rather than monetary benefits.
Strategy of these classes to attract students
Introduction
In recent years, IIT-JEE has become kind of a mania. In the past 4 years, number of IIT-JEE aspirants have rose by around 1 lakh. No wonder, numerous IIT coaching institutes mushroomed in these years. But it has to be accepted that every coaching institute cannot be trusted to guide a student to his/her destination. A category of people have made coaching institutes their business that flourishes at the expense of careers of innocent, ignorant kids. It has to be accepted that not only clearing IIT-JEE is a tough task but also training students to prepare for it is equally tough. It requires detailed planning of syllabus, dedicated team of intellectually stimulated faculty and especially, faculty members who have children's success as their prime objective rather than monetary benefits.
Strategy of these classes to attract students
Now, there is this Universal cycle which all of us are aware of, at least theoretically. A person does a particular task well, his credibility increases, he becomes a trusted name in the society, people come to him for getting the same task done again and again and that person becomes a specialist in that particular field.
Same holds true for IIT coaching institutes. Their business/fame/popularity is directly proportional to the number of candidates selected in IIT-JEE from their institutes. As was mentioned before, numerous coaching institutes have sprung up in these years. Now, if they want to make business out of this seemingly attractive situation they need to show results. If I as a businessman make an entry in this business, I would like people to believe in me and my institute. Hence, I need to show results. But I have no great results to show in the beginning. This would make me think of earning the rights to publish the name of students of other coaching classes who have cleared the examination. And this is really easy. Give students a free test series/ study material/ or some kind of discount and what I get in return is the right to publish their name once they clear this famous examination, IIT-JEE.
Once this process starts, it never ceases because promotional offers are a very valuable investment with high yielding returns. They are also an excellent way to hide one's incompetency. In fact it is a very lucrative way to run IIT coaching institutes. In fact, this is how some coaching institutes are running today in Mumbai. They are exploiting ignorance of students and their parents mercilessly. They do not care about the after effects on students following their abysmal performance in IIT-JEE and related exams, when in reality, it is not a student's fault but fault at the end of these heartless coaching institutes.
Kind of faculty
Same holds true for IIT coaching institutes. Their business/fame/popularity is directly proportional to the number of candidates selected in IIT-JEE from their institutes. As was mentioned before, numerous coaching institutes have sprung up in these years. Now, if they want to make business out of this seemingly attractive situation they need to show results. If I as a businessman make an entry in this business, I would like people to believe in me and my institute. Hence, I need to show results. But I have no great results to show in the beginning. This would make me think of earning the rights to publish the name of students of other coaching classes who have cleared the examination. And this is really easy. Give students a free test series/ study material/ or some kind of discount and what I get in return is the right to publish their name once they clear this famous examination, IIT-JEE.
Once this process starts, it never ceases because promotional offers are a very valuable investment with high yielding returns. They are also an excellent way to hide one's incompetency. In fact it is a very lucrative way to run IIT coaching institutes. In fact, this is how some coaching institutes are running today in Mumbai. They are exploiting ignorance of students and their parents mercilessly. They do not care about the after effects on students following their abysmal performance in IIT-JEE and related exams, when in reality, it is not a student's fault but fault at the end of these heartless coaching institutes.
Kind of faculty
As already seen, many of these coaching institutes score low in professional ethics it is quite justified that they would not invest much in their most valuable and at the same time, expensive resource, their faculty. It is said that older the wine is, better it is. These institutes attract faculty in the form of students from IIT Bombay (irrespective of their year: 1st/2nd/ 3rd/4th/5th). They even use this step of theirs to gain popularity by publicising the number of faculties they have from IITs, hiding their inexperience. These student faculties most of the times are temporary. Also, they frankly do not have any reason to feel strongly for making students (preparing for IIT-JEE) pass the exam. Majority of the faculty from IIT student community go to earn money, they do it and come back without even bothering about the final result of the students. So, in a way there are very few permanent faculty to guide students all the way through and in some classes there are hardly any.
Outcome
Outcome
No prizes for guessing, classroom students of these coaching classes generally do not do well at IIT-JEE and other related exams. But these institutes get their share of publicity because of those promotional offers. They again misguide new students and parents and the cycle continues. One day, this process will become like one of the scams at the Wall Street. I hope that day comes pretty soon and save many nascent careers. Let this be the beginning of that day.
Appeal to IITians
Appeal to IITians
My friends, I have realized it with my first hand experiences that we do try our best to teach students but ignorantly we are not helping them much and many to come (future students of these institutes) to sail through because of the fraudulent system explained above. I feel that as IITians we have strong social responsibility. This tag of IITian is trusted by everyone. People have blind faith in us. It is not at all justified on our part to break this faith for a small amount of money which we all know is insignificant in time to come. Trust me, we won't chase money, money will chase us. So, let us not do this felony anymore.
Signing off,
Vishal
Signing off,
Vishal
