Author · Education · Jun 2018
What Is Wrong With the Indian Education System?
On 3 Idiots, JEE, and why Indian engineering sends the wrong people to the wrong places — aptitude beats exam scores.
- Essay
- Education
- Reflection
Problem
India's engineering pipeline optimizes for certificates and job eligibility — not aptitude — pushing students who dislike engineering into the field while screening out passionate builders via JEE's physics/chemistry gate.
Outcomes
- Originally published on Quora; expanded on rawshn.com/thoughts
- Frames the mismatch between exam scores and career fit as a systemic design failure
Full case study
This page is a summary. The full essay is on Thoughts; the original answer is on Quora when linked below.