This document discusses issues with the Indian education system and competitive exams. It argues that the current system focuses too much on rote learning and testing knowledge, rather than teaching skills. This has negative effects on students like increased stress. The document calls for reforms like focusing on skill-based learning, rewarding creativity over exam scores, improving teacher quality, increasing technology and infrastructure for education, and redefining the purpose of education to create entrepreneurs rather than just service providers. It also discusses making reservation irrelevant by improving access to education.

1. BY G.RACHANA
MBA 1ST year

2. CONTENTS
 Indian education system
 Competitive exams and our education system
 Effects of these exams on the students
 OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM
 What do we need to change about the Indian Education System?
 Focus on skill based education
 Reward creativity, original thinking, research and innovation
 Get smarter people to teach
 Implement massive technology infrastructure for education
 Re-define the purpose of the education system
 Make reservation irrelevant
 modern education of Pearson
 Our aim
 Our DNA
 Our vision

4. Competitive exams and our education
system
 In a time when the economy is increasingly global and competitive, and
when a high school diploma alone isn’t enough to secure a job that
leads to a strong and thriving middle class, college matters more and
more.

5. EFFECTS OF THESE EXAMS ON THE
STUDENTS
 Some commonly known entrance exams are: IIT JEE, Civil Services Exam (CSE),
EAMCET, CAT, AIPMT, UPSC etc. An interesting fact about civil services exam
CSE is that it is considered as one of the toughest examination in the world with a
success rate of 0.1%-0.3%. That means, if 100,000 candidates apply for the exam,
only 12,000 will be selected for the 2nd round. Out of the 12,000 only top 2000 will
be called for the final interview out of which only 1000 will be selected.
 When we look at the ill effects of these competitive exams, we observe increased
levels of stress and anxiety, creativity is lost, rote learning is practiced more which
does not help in gaining any knowledge, inferiority complex on not being able to be
at par with other excelling students, fear of losing which leads to fear of not getting
into the desired institution which further results in the fear of unemployment as the
stereotypes say “a good institute results in quick and good employment”.

6. OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM
 I feel India’s education system as a stumbling block towards its objectives
of achieving inclusive growth. Face the facts: India has about 550 million
people under the age of 25 years out of which only 11% are enrolled in
tertiary institutions compared to the world’s average of 23%.
 The critical aspect of Indian public education system is the low quality of
education, which relates to the low quality of teaching faculty available,
weak infrastructure and limited resources.
 It is important for the government to improve resource allocation to bring
about qualitative changes in the field of education. Common schooling is
one of the ways in which government can use limited resources in an
efficient way and thus improve resource allocation.
 Our education system’s failure is leading to another social issue of income
inequality. If the government does not improve education system
particularly in rural areas, the rich will become richer and the poor will get
poorer.
 Hence, it is imperative for the government to correct the blemishes in
India’s education system which will also be a step towards reducing income
inequality resulting in a much fairer system for all groups of people

7. What do we need to
change about the
Indian Education
System?

8. FOCUS ON SKILL BASED EDUCATION
 Our education system is geared towards teaching and testing
knowledge at every level as opposed to teaching skills. “Give a man
a fish and you feed him one day, teach him how to catch fishes and
you feed him for a lifetime.” I believe that if you teach a man a skill,
you enable him for a lifetime. Knowledge is largely forgotten after the
semester exam is over. Still, year after year Indian students focus on
cramming information. The best crammers are rewarded by the
system. This is one of the fundamental flaws of our education
system.

9. Reward creativity, original thinking, research and
innovation
 Our education system rarely rewards what deserves highest
academic accolades. Our testing and marking systems need
to be built to recognize original contributions, in form of
creativity, problem solving, valuable original research and
innovation. If we could do this successfully Indian
education system would have changed overnight.

10. Get smarter people to teach
For way too long teaching became the sanctuary of the incompetent.
Teaching jobs are until today widely regarded as safe, well-paying, risk-free
and low-pressure jobs. Once a teacher told me in high school “Well, if you
guys don’t study it is entirely your loss – I will get my salary at the end of the
month anyway.” He could not put across the lack of incentive for being good
at teaching any better. Thousands of terrible teachers all over India are
wasting valuable time of young children every day all over India.
We need leaders, entrepreneurs in teaching positions, not salaried people .

11.  India needs to embrace internet and technology if it has to teach
all of its huge population, the majority of which is located in
remote villages. Now that we have computers and internet, it
makes sense to invest in technological infrastructure that will
make access to knowledge easier than ever.

12. RE-DEFINE THE PURPOSE OF THE EDUCATION
SYSTEM
 The goal of our new education system should be to
create entrepreneurs, innovators, artists, scientists,
thinkers and writers who can establish the foundation of a
knowledge based economy rather than the low-quality
service provider nation that we are turning into.

13. Make reservation irrelevant
We have reservation in education today because education is not available universally.
Education has to be rationed. This is not a long –term solution. If we want to emerge as a
country build on a knowledge economy, driven by highly educated people – we need to
make good education so universally available that reservation will lose its meaning.
There is no reservation in online education – because it scales. Today top universities
worldwide are taking various courses online, and today you can easily attend a live class
taught by a top professor of Harvard University online if you want, no matter which
country is belong to. This is the future, this is the easy way to beat reservation and make
it inconsequential.

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