Rebirth of India: Superior

There is a very famous local market called sardar near the clock tower of Jodhapur's iconic building. The variety of goods here is quite rich, and there are all kinds of imaginable and unexpected things. The sardar who just came down from Mehrangarh Fort Kelu and Amisa were wandering here at this time.

"Brother Shaklu, what is this?" Amisha suddenly picked up a strip of ore-like object and asked Shaklu.

Shakru took it and played with it, then shook his head and said, "I really don't know about this." Then he asked the boss, "Boss, what is this thing used for?"

Seeing Shakru's attire and temperament, the vendor knew that he was no ordinary person, so he replied respectfully: "Sir, this is a kind of ore we have here. I don't know the specific name, but it has the same effect as chalk." Somewhat similar, and cheap enough to cost just a few cents You can buy one, so many children from poor families who cannot afford paper and pen use this thing to practice writing on the ground. Moreover, it is edible and has a unique taste." He picked up one. Put it in your mouth and eat it like french fries.

Shakru curiously picked up a relatively clean piece and took a bite. Then he couldn't help but turn around and spit it out. He said somewhat depressedly: "Well, the taste is unique enough, but I really can't accept it."

While he was talking, several primary school students in school uniforms ran over and bought a few of these strips of ore. What’s interesting is that in the blue city of Jodhapur, even the school uniforms of students are sky blue.

Amisha saw that several little girls looked very cute, so she gave them the packages of beautifully packaged snacks she had just bought, and then asked casually: "Are you still primary school students? Do you know how to memorize multiplication tables?" "

The little girl replied sweetly: "I have learned how to memorize it a long time ago. Now I am memorizing the nth power table of natural numbers."

Hearing this answer, Shakru felt a little emotional. Before traveling, he had always thought that China's education was the toughest and most difficult in the world. However, after arriving in India, he discovered that in some aspects, especially mathematics, Indian teaching The difficulty is much higher than that in China.

Take the multiplication formula mentioned by the little girl just now as an example. In China, people recite the nine-nine multiplication table, but in India, they recite the 19*19 multiplication formula. The difficulty of 9*9 and 19*19 is the same. Quantities are definitely not on the same level, and this is only part of the requirements for primary school mathematics. What you also need to recite is the nth power table of natural numbers.

India’s education department believes that if most citizens can recite the 19 times 1 power table proficiently, then everyone’s calculation speed will be much faster, and the entire country will develop faster. For example, engineers can calculate faster, and salespeople can calculate faster. Get change faster and more.

Difficult homework can bring students a bright life prospect, but it also causes them tremendous psychological pressure. In order to relieve the pressure on students, the Indian education department stipulates that students in public schools must hug each other when they enter school every morning, but only between the same sex.

Although Indian students are under great pressure, there are still many children from poor families who are eager to go to school because the Indian government provides free lunch to every student. And only by going to school can you change your destiny, otherwise you will have to make a living by begging and picking up garbage in the future.

Just when Shakru was thinking wildly, Amisa continued to ask: "Which school do you plan to attend in the future?"

Several children said in unison: "iit"

The full name of IIT as the children call it is Indian Institute of Technology, which translates to Indian Institute of Technology. This is the best university in India and represents the top level of Indian higher education. It is featured in the very famous Indian movie "Three Idiots in Bollywood" The performance is actually this school.

iit has a good reputation in the west. Although it ranks low in the West due to poor research, in fact engineers from IIT are famous all over the world. Among the Ph.D.s in science and engineering at top universities in the United States, there are many from India's IIT, and their evaluations are very high. Moreover, since higher education in India started relatively early and is still taught in English, brain drain is also very early. In Silicon Valley and other American technology companies, there are many Indians, including at the top. In the United States, the average salary of Asians is higher than that of whites, and Indians have the highest salary among Asians.

Although the children's wishes were good, Shakru felt that none of the children in front of him would be able to pass the IIT. Because iit has its own entrance examination (iit-jee), which is not in the general joint examination system in India (there are multiple parallel examinations). So students who are interested in IIT have to go through the joint entrance examination, and then (seems to be two months later) take the IIT-JEE. Since the courses in JEE are deeper than those in the Joint Entrance Examination, the school will not learn all the knowledge that appears in JEE. Therefore, cram schools in India are very famous. And based on the family economic level of the children who use strips of ore to practice calligraphy, it is obviously difficult to send them to cram schools.

The iit-jee exam consists of two parts, the preliminary test jee (main) and the re-examination jee (advaned). Both are 3 hours long and only test physics, mathematics, and chemistry. All questions are multiple choice questions or essay questions with objective answers. The preliminary test is an elimination test, and only the re-examination results are considered in the end. The ranking of the results is called "air" or "allindia rank". In 2011, 500,000 people took the entrance exam. In the end, about 10,000 were admitted, and the admission rate was about 2%, which was lower before the expansion of iit. The top scorer every year will be in the media. The mathematics level of iit-jee should be higher than that of China. Including calculus, etc. I am not sure about physics and chemistry.

The admission to iit only looks at the test results once. However, there are protected places for specific castes and tribes. Since most of the better schools are English schools, the test paper can be chosen in English or Hindi. Due to the fierce competition, many times the students who are admitted are children from middle-class or poorer families, because people who grow up in richer families find it difficult to achieve the level of effort required by iit. So in the end, after entering the school, many people often speak English very poorly (which is a sign of not having a good education in India).

After entering IIT, the department is also selected based on the ranking of the entrance examination. The most prestigious departments are probably the computer science and electronic engineering departments. The entrance examination is more difficult, and all examinations are publicly ranked. This point is also mentioned in Three Idiots. It is worth mentioning that the ratio of men to women in IIT is very large. There are many jokes about this.

ps: Since it has been interrupted for many days, this week's internal fan has chosen the most popular topic in the group, which is the most popular baby catching an adulterer recently. It is expected that this week's content will be about cheating and next week's content will be about catching an adulterer. It will still be posted to the all-subscribed group on Sunday afternoon or evening.

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