RESERVATIONS!!! HELP!!
Has the government lost it?? Is it that they are not even using 2 percent of their already damaged brains???
Already there is a 27% reservation which is costing many a people seats in prestigious institutuions and they want to make it 49.5%...
I mean are they dumb deaf and blind??????
I know that the politicians dont know anything.. but are they so dumb?
I mean they need not run anywhere for getting their chidren into reputed institutions...
bloody they will suck India man... they will sell off India...
they don't care a damn..
IIM institutions first get a fee hike and now these reservations....
I mean do they even care if a OBC/ ST/SC guy goes to a foreign country and does stupid things because he doesn't know anything and lets the whole of IIM down?
no I dont blame the low caste people who belong to the OBC/SC/ST... I know they need some reservation so that they can come up to a certain level and contribute to the Indian economy but this is shit where 80%of INDIA in the open categories get 50% seats...
THIS IS A CRIME....
I'm not gonna lie down and bear this all
if necessary I will stage a protest..
I've heard the Delhi university students are gonna do it..
so will apna Mumbai ka crowd..
I'm sincerely gonna join them...
Already there is a 27% reservation which is costing many a people seats in prestigious institutuions and they want to make it 49.5%...
I mean are they dumb deaf and blind??????
I know that the politicians dont know anything.. but are they so dumb?
I mean they need not run anywhere for getting their chidren into reputed institutions...
bloody they will suck India man... they will sell off India...
they don't care a damn..
IIM institutions first get a fee hike and now these reservations....
I mean do they even care if a OBC/ ST/SC guy goes to a foreign country and does stupid things because he doesn't know anything and lets the whole of IIM down?
no I dont blame the low caste people who belong to the OBC/SC/ST... I know they need some reservation so that they can come up to a certain level and contribute to the Indian economy but this is shit where 80%of INDIA in the open categories get 50% seats...
THIS IS A CRIME....
I'm not gonna lie down and bear this all
if necessary I will stage a protest..
I've heard the Delhi university students are gonna do it..
so will apna Mumbai ka crowd..
I'm sincerely gonna join them...
posted by PerfumesReviewer @ 1:32 AM
8 Comments:
At Friday, April 07, 2006 ,
PriPat said...
Hey man I am fullto with u !
It really sucks to have sucha rediculus system! Arre gone r those days when low caste had no opportunites; and now!!! beeing low caste its been a previlaage really!!!
Whats going on yaaar ! All should b on bases of merit and all should be treated as Indians and not by caste and such a filty stuff!
yes I ll join u in the protest!
v should use all type of media to protest it !
with u man !!
At Friday, April 07, 2006 ,
Mihir said...
what crime have we committed to be in the so called privileged section in the society... this reservation policy sux big time...
just call me when u go for the protests...
At Friday, April 07, 2006 ,
PerfumesReviewer said...
yeah sure.. I need more support for this... the govt. needs to know that we elect them to make our lives problem free not
'problem?' freee.....!!!
At Thursday, April 27, 2006 ,
Anonymous said...
We must investigate the term "merit".Is "merit" just a score 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?
At Friday, April 28, 2006 ,
PerfumesReviewer said...
Man... that was one heck of a coool statement u meade there mate.. Doesn't contain ur nam though... Write ur name plz
At Tuesday, May 02, 2006 ,
PriPat said...
WHO EVER THE PERSON IS I SWEAR HE HAS BEEN REALLY MIND BLOWING IN HIS WRITNG
HAY LAVI U HAVE BEST VISITORS
At Tuesday, May 02, 2006 ,
Anonymous said...
My main point was that inherent aptitude/talent (INBORN MERIT) can't be tested. What gets tested in a test like the CAT or SAT or any test is the person's learning (ACQUIRED MERIT).
I am not saying this learning(ACQUIRED MERIT) is a bad thing and those who possess it needs to penalized by denying them an opportunity for furthering their education .I am saying lets stop pretending that we are measuring inherit aptitude/talent(INBORN MERIT) in these entrance examinations .
Once we accept that what we are measuring in CAT or the other entrance exams is something that has been learnt with effort often since childhood we also see that others who have not had the good fortune of such a childhood could also learn those very things if only with harder work in teens or adulthood . And a person who has learnt skills late in his life can be as competent as anyone. So some one with a lesser score in an Entrance exam like a quota student could outdo over time someone who has scored more in the entrance .
In a rediff discussion titled "Why students must know English " Rashmi Bansal of IIM Ahmedabad ,popular blogger , editor of an English youth magazine in says ,http://in.rediff.com/getahead/2006/may/02rashmi.htm
"All students must learn English because it is a vital skill in the New Economy"
But even the Americans don't think its going to enough in the "new economy" .
American President Bush thinks that learning Hindi and a few other foreign languages is a "critical need" for the US's national security and prosperity. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1362386.cms
In this article http://www.cmomagazine.com/analyst/031805_csa.html
That article quotes Former German chancellor Willy Brandt who said decades ago: "If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen Sie Deutsch sprechen" (or "Wenn ich zu Ihnen verkaufe, spreche ich Ihre Sprache. Wenn ich kaufe, then you must speak German"). People are much more likely to buy if they fully understand what it is you're trying to sell to them.
All successful business, like politics, is local - or should appear that way to the buyer. The right language is the first step in becoming a local hero says the same article
If knowledge of International language is the reason why CAT is held in English then there are other International languages which also have a claim to be in the question paper. See how knowing Chinese or Japanese or Italian or French or German would be to an Indian business man. Just look at the size of the world trade of the countries I have just named . And also see the growing importance of Asian countries .
Lets raise the standard of the Entrance exam . Let do away with the English paper and bring in a multilingual language paper. Lets introduce other important foreign languages in the CAT examination . To gain a competitive edge it will introduce the genial joys of learning a foreign language to the members of the anglicized cosmopolitan community. Lets say the first ten most widely spoken language in the world be included as options in the entrance examination .
Quite a few Indian languages will figure in the examination questions on the basis if the sheer number size of their speakers . ( Bengali follows Hindi in sheer numbers, its spoken in Bangladesh as well Bengal ) But lets consider all India state based languages equally . It will drastically cut down but not eliminate the importance of English . A person who knows more than one language will get rewarded.
If the answers are standardized then correction could also be easier .
It may also inspire our professors to learn newer international languages so that the immense research material in say Japanese management or French management becomes available to our budding management wizards . When our professors struggle with the Chinese script it will help them empathize with the struggle of a student who is struggling with English .
Lets further raise the standards of the entrance examination !!!Along with Maths lets also have a paper on Humanities . After all 90% of a managers success depends on handling people. So instead of promoting anglicized number crunching geeks who are blind to local and global social realities lets promote a more socially aware manager . Most corporates nowadays have larger social aims in their mission statements . They will love students who are conscious of social realities within and without the country .Let there be a compulsory section on "Community", "social capital". You can't understand concepts of "Caste", "social justice" etc .
It will bring down the ridiculous percentiles because the standards of the entrance would have gone up .
What I have suggested is complicated and I am sure can be improved upon . But where there is a will for merit and fair play there will be a way for merit and fair play .
Both can coexists . But then Innovation should not be just a management buzz word !!
At Tuesday, May 02, 2006 ,
Anonymous said...
Let me add....
English is NOT the language spoken and understood by majority of the population worldwide!!!!!!!
The Summer Institute for Linguistics (SIL) Ethnologue Survey (1999) lists the following as the top languages by population:
(number of native speakers in parentheses)
Chinese* (937,132,000)
Spanish (332,000,000)
English (322,000,000)
Bengali (189,000,000)
Hindi/Urdu (182,000,000)
Arabic* (174,950,000)
Portuguese (170,000,000)
Russian (170,000,000)
Japanese (125,000,000)
German (98,000,000)
French* (79,572,000)
The following list is from Dr. Bernard Comrie’s article for the Encarta Encyclopedia (1998):
(number of native speakers in parentheses)
Mandarin Chinese (836 million)
Hindi (333 million)
Spanish (332 million)
English (322 million)
Bengali (189 million)
Arabic (186 million)
Russian (170 million)
Portuguese (170 million)
Japanese (125 million)
German (98 million)
French (72 million)
In the IAS examination there is no discrimination between candidates who answer in Hindi or English or other regional languages.
The IIMs can learn something from how the IAS is conducted.
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