Many things..But few things are:
1. Destroying is very easy than Construction: Example is the stupidity that people have done on Raj Kumar's death. If they are such a great fans to him, then they should have done something good where his name will be remembered forever but not destroying public property and forcing people to shutdown the shops. I have seen a person in front of my home who was distributing juice as they can't keep it for next day.
I was just wondering why they haven't done distributing money to the needy or something good for the nation..
If the IIM Pass out Manjunath (I hope I remembered the name) or the IITK pass out (Satyendra Dubey) who were working in public sector, killed by corrupted politicians then no one has done any thing for them. Nothing happened to Jessica Lal Murder case.
Why don't these people react for such things..
2. 50% reservations to OBC in IITs/ IIMs : Is it necessary?? I am not against OBC or SC or ST.. But what I think is to give necessary education ( in the sense, since +2) for free to them..But please give priority to merit. Without merit, one shouldn't allow any one to become engineer, medico or some other techie.. I read some where that Ambedkar has requested for reservation only for few years. I don't remember the exact year that he has specified but I am very sure that time is over already but still the reservations are continuing by politicians to attract minorities to grab votes..
PS: These are just my opinions.. I am not criticizing any one..But for better developed world, it is better to do a good thing than bad thing..
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Thoughts roaming in my mind
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Agreed 100% on both the thoughts.
PS:- Manjunath was from IIM-L
Nice thoughts!!!
yeah I agree with you..
What "merit" are we talking of anyway ? Scores in entrance exams at age of 17?
Take the claim of "merit based" entrance to all IIMs and dozens of other institutes.
The CAT exam is based on the SAT exam in the USA . It has been proved beyond doubt that the SAT test is culturally biased . Blacks and hispanics do poorly at it year after year .
If a student who is eligible for admission to IIM on the basis of his CAT score, were to take the same CAT exam in which he/she cleared in a language that he/she did not understand then he/she would be at a disadvantage compared to someone who was schooled in that language . Not knowing that language does not mean you lack the capacity to clear that exam.
Approximately 25 % of CAT test is about English! Another 25 % is about English Comprehension!!!! There you are !!!! About 50 % so called aptitude test is a hoax for someone who is from a non-english speaking background .
This is how the CAT like the SAT is discriminatory .
See the full form of SAT …Scholastic Aptitude Test . The problem is aptitude testing is not so simple . There is no test on earth which can reliably tests aptitude .
Aptitude tests such as the SAT have a historical tie to the concept of innate mental abilities and the belief that such abilities can be defined and meaningfully measured. Neither notion has been supported by modern research. Few scientists who have considered these matters seriously would argue that aptitude tests such as the SAT provide a true measure of intellectual abilities.
It was found that people could be coached to better their scores at SAT . The name SAT …Scholastic Aptitude Test could not be correct . So under such valid criticism the name was changed to Scholastic Assessment Test, since a test that can be coached clearly did not measure inherent "scholastic aptitude", but was influenced largely by what the test subject had learned in school. Even the College Board which conducts the SAT has beaten a hasty retreat.This was a major theoretical retreat by the College Board conducting SAT, which had previously maintained that the test measured inherent aptitude and was free of bias.
About ten years back , however, even the redundancy of the term assessment test was recognized and the name was changed to the neutral, and non-descriptive, SAT. At the time, the College Board announced, "Please note that SAT is not an initialism. It does not stand for anything."
The framers of these SAT tests assumed that intelligence was a unitary inherited attribute, that it was not subject to change over a lifetime, and that it could be measured and individuals could be ranked and assigned their place in society accordingly. The SAT evolved from these questionable assumptions about human talent and potential.
More and more people are questioning the validity of SAT . In the past MENSA used to accept high SAT score individuals . For the past decade it has stopped accepting SAT scores .
The whole exercise of deciding merit based on CAT scores discriminates against those from lower socio-economic status.
Though many non-IIM institutes have started accepting CAT scores, the application fee of these institutes is still inexplicably high.
The CAT is primarily an exam of Math and English. Logical and Analytical Reasoning is nearly absent (except for some verbal reasoning which again depends on knowing English well!!!!).
CAT is a clever way to keep those from lower socio-economic strata away Institutes funded with tax payers money .
So claims of “Merit” based on CAT scores is hollow and discriminatory against those of lower socio-economic strata.
Dhirubhai Ambani had a poor command over English . He would not have made it through CAT. So what "merit" are we talking of?
I don't know whether you are supporting reservations or not. I didn't get time to read the whole thing right now. See, if the education system is wrong then try to change the system but unnecessarily don't add reservation in between and make it more worse. what ever you are talking about socio-economic status is not related to castes. There are all kinds of caste people who are poor and not able to spend money to study
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