no more entrance exams
the tamilnadu govt has decided to do away with the Common Entrance Examinations (CET), from this yr onwards for all the professional courses. and they claim that this would give the rural students a fair chance. now come on, what difference is it going to bring. more coaching shops would now open in the cities, focussing on the plus two exams. so wouldn't that be unfair to the rural students?
plus two exams are nothing but a farce. in my opnion, it needn't even be given. and just when other states and universities (read BITS Pilani) have realized it and started their own entrance exams, here comes the TN govt with another blinder. this is definitely a step backwards. I doubt if they even had a proper debate on this.
unless and until we are going to change the "textbook reproduction" type exams, please don't expect any spectacular results.
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Guyz like me wont have a chance against the regurgitation specialists..i.e girls
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If +2 marks are the sole determining factor for Engg / Medical admissions it would put enormous pressure on the students. The reservation / admission process in TN was one of the reasons why I shied away from Sciene stream and opted for the Commerce stream!
Holy crap, this dashes all chances of CBSE students getting admission into TN Engg colleges. It would be absolutely impossible for them to match the aggregate of TN State Board students, even if normalized.
Well, it has always been clear TN State Board & State Govt care nothing about quality of education. All they emphasize is mugging capabilities and just want high percentage results. Now this decision makes it even stronger for mugging, copying, paper chasing etc. Fantastic!
Saranyan, i thot this was a reckless move too, made at ramadoss's insistence. but Telegraph's headline today was - "What Tamil Nadu thinks today, India may think tomorrow, if at all."
CET definitely drew the margin well! It would be sad to see it go!
On the other hand, in Bangalore last year, the allocation had more seats for *management* quota. Which means, it not moolai but moolah, that worked! If thats the case, might as well not write another exam!
The entrance test was the ONLY way a good student could delineate himself from the pack..and by the pack I mean the few thousand if not more 1100+ scorers in the State Board exams which are absolutely no thinking just memory driven exams. Now with that gone, its going to be one free for all and it wont be long before software companies realise the low standards the colleges will be setting as a result.
What a pity. India is that one country where politics ensures time and again that we retrogress in thought and action and never progress.
It is done with the next elections in mind.Absolutely foolish move.But I expect a case and stay order round the corner as it is always the case.Like ioiio said girls are unmatchable in memorization skills.
so can we expect more girls in professional course :) just kidding.
this is going to be a nightmare for students who simply concentrate on the maths and science courses. now they will be forced to get hig marks in language subjects as well. guess what, nobody I MEAN NOBODY is going to take tamil as even a second language. everyone is going to take french. so thamizh thaangi dhaan idhukku oru mudivu pannanum.
oh oh my bad. they can just use the core subjects.
The whole admission system there is a farce with top scorers measured not by intelligence but by memorizing skills.
What will make more sense is to replicate something like SAT here. Have a pure logic/analytical/math/english (common skills for any degree) based exam for ALL courses (BA, BSc, BCOM, BE ... everything except med/law schools) and then based on the student's ranking purely in that common SAT-like exam that measures the student's logical and analytical skills let the student choose what he/she wants to study in alignment with his/her plus two stream(as in commerce stream students in plus two cannot opt for engineering/science no matter what since they do not have the base and such similar rules that we have in place today).
I guess the essence would be to make it purely an entrance exam oriented admission process and making this entrance exam not based on rote memorization of text book but purely based on logic/analytical skills and making all colleges arts/sciences/commerce/engineering follow this. This way the playing field will be fully level and we will not even be impartial to CBSE/ICSE board students as is the case now.
But who are we kidding, in a country where "progress" is decided on vote banks, this will never happen and quite a few Engineers/Doctors we see will be those whose Daddies have deep pockets!
long live democracy! :-)
Why should they fool around with the TN admissions every 3-4 yrs? After a long time they had a good system going on...it might'ave needed some tweaking now and then...but is it necessary to change it totally?
Basically they are asking students not to think! Amazing!!!
Boy am I glad that am done with school!!
Not sure what initiated the move.
I am surprised at the scoring pattern these days. Students get 100% in all subjects? How is it possible?
Was the idea of the Govt. to encourage Text book reproduction?
Why..Why..Why? What's happening to Tamil Nadu.?
I was reading somewhere that IIT
exams are now mellowed down in terms of the material as it seems to be too advanced to people. Normally the exams necessitates someone to start preparing for it rigorously atleast for 2 years and added to it, u got to prepare for your board exams as well, the amount of stress looks to be unbearable. So the govt's stand on this was to descend back a few steps in order to accomodate and give a fair chance to all the people. As I understand it, anyone with the right attitude and IQ might make it to the IIT, this move certainly brings down the quality of the IIT-JEE. Along the same horizon,it looks like our beloved state has made a similar move to accomodate people from all over. What could have been done is to transform the places with less facilities and pour in enough funding and exposure rather than bringing down the standard completely.
Good point Ja.
ja, thats a good suggestion.
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