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The little brother who looks like a scholar in the picture is called Sarvesh Mehtani, the champion of the Indian Institute of Technology admissions exam this year. The legendary ALL INDIA RANKING 1, the strongest high school student in all India. Today's little myth, how strong is he?
For most Chinese students, high school is a beautiful and painful memory. I don't know how many people relive the heartbeat of the eve of the college entrance examination for many years after the end of the college entrance examination. Our neighbor, India, has the same huge population base, and high school students there are also facing the same huge pressure - due to institutional construction and cultural customs, to some extent, Indian high school students are burdened with The "gaokao" task is even heavier.
The pressure is first reflected in the number of exams: in India, "gaokao" is a plural concept. If the Chinese college entrance examination is a decisive battle in June, then the examination process of Indian candidates is a marathon tug of war that lasts for several months, passing five levels and defeating six generals.
The best university in India is the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), no one. In the minds of ordinary Indian parents, studying literature is not as good as studying business, and studying business is not as good as studying science and medicine, and the Indian Institute of Technology, which concentrates the most powerful educational resources in India, and even supports it in the form of special legislation, is an absolute giant in science and technology. There is such a joke circulating in the Indian university circle, "The first-class students go to IIT, and the second-class students go to MIT". In addition to the jokes, the status of the Indian Institute of Technology is evident. Basically, an IIT diploma is synonymous with high-paying jobs and bright prospects. The prototype of Imperial College of Technology (ICT) in the Indian film "3 Idiots", which was very popular in China a few years ago, is the Indian Institute of Technology. People who have watched this film must remember that while laughing. Reflections on India's exam-oriented education through the mouths of starring Aamir Khan.
So, how difficult is the Indian Institute of Technology?
The vast majority of students need to decide their future direction in the tenth grade (roughly equivalent to the first year of high school), science and technology, medicine, liberal arts, business, and continue to work towards the established goals for the next three years, which is a time in itself. A choice with huge opportunity cost. India's college entrance examination is divided according to provincial and state-level and national-level university admissions and various subject classifications. There are dozens of types of college entrance examinations in the country. Fighting for the Indian Institute of Technology means giving up most of the remaining possibilities. From the moment you write "IIT" in your dream journal, your high school life will be so fulfilling. Whether it is a so-called aristocratic private high school or an ordinary secondary school spread across various small and medium-sized cities in India, the education in the school is far from being enough to help students prepare for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) set up for the Indian Institutes of Technology. Therefore, more than 95% of the candidates must start extracurricular tutoring two or three years in advance, and study the content of chemistry, physics and mathematics beyond the outline, in order to not lag behind the competition of hundreds of thousands or even millions of outstanding high school students across the country in terms of knowledge reserve.
Entering the twelfth grade, all students are required to take the graduation examination organized by the State Board of Education or the National Board of Education. This exam is not difficult. To borrow the words of an Indian friend, as long as students study hard in high school, they can get good grades. Significant. Because if you can't rank among the top in the most basic unified examination, you may not even have the chance to take the joint entrance examination.
The number of Indian high school graduates eligible to sit for IITs has dropped by an order of magnitude after the state-level unified graduation examination, but more than a million students apply each year, including repeaters. In 2017, 1,186,454 people finally qualified for the joint entrance examination, and more than 1.18 million people jointly pursued the admission qualifications of various branches of the Indian Institute of Technology and several other famous universities in the alliance. To use an extensive analogy, this can be roughly equivalent to more than one million high school students in China signing up for the college entrance examination, and the only choices for admission are Peking University and Tsinghua University - the best result, or, gamble for nothing.
The first thing to wait for these more than one million lions is a three-hour preliminary test. The preliminary test consists of 90 objective questions, covering three subjects of mathematics, chemistry and physics. Four points will be awarded for correct answers, one point will be deducted for wrong answers, and no answer will be deducted. No points will be deducted. It takes an average of four minutes to solve a science question that exceeds the requirements of high school textbooks. Each multiple-choice question is as computationally and conceptually complex as the last three multiple-choice questions in the Chinese college entrance examination.
The first test was held in early April, and the national rankings were conducted after the torturous three hours. That's right, the ranking is based on the scores of more than one million candidates across the country. The answer to each question is determined, and everyone's score is not disputed. Each score is the average of more than 15 daily studies in the past two or three years. Hours of hard work to prepare candidates for elite schools.
Ultimately, one in five has a chance to make it to the final retest. In fact, getting a good grade in the preliminary exam is enough to help candidates get some good offers, but not enough for the ambitious and hard-working IIT chaser. Those who stand out from the millions of high school students still need to fight the most tragic round.
Compared with the initial exam, the final exam is qualitatively different in the way and difficulty of the questions. It is still divided into three subjects: mathematics, physics, and chemistry. The test duration is also three hours. However, the number of questions and the score of the test vary each year according to the ideas of the writers. In 2015, there were 180 questions and a total of 504 points. In 2016, it was 108 questions and 372 points. The full score of the exam just passed on May 21 this year was 366 points. Question types include subjective quiz questions, objective single-choice and multiple-choice questions, and matching questions. It focuses on students' logical thinking and ability to use abstract concepts. As a liberal arts student, after opening last year's original question, I closed it as it is, and posted it here for high school graduates and lower-level undergraduates of the same academic level to understand the difficulty.
Knowing friends remember to tell me, are these questions difficult?
This year's release date is June 11, and all 220,000 candidates' preliminary and re-examination scores will be comprehensively ranked in India. There are 17 branches of the Indian Institute of Technology in the country, with a total enrollment target of almost 10,000 people, that is to say, only students who are in the top 5% of the overall ranking in India are likely to be shortlisted. These 17 campuses are also divided into high and low, if you want to enter the Mumbai campus with the most outstanding statement, you need to be in the top 1000 in the All India ranking. The odds of 1,000 in 2 million, don't forget, these 2 million people have already gone through the provincial level selection before they have the qualifications for reference.
At the beginning of the movie "Three Fools", the principal, Mr. Virus, told more than 200 freshmen that they had crossed 400,000 candidates to finally come to the Royal Institute of Technology - in reality, this proportion is not at all. exaggerate.
The little brother in the picture is the champion of the re-examination this year. His name is Sarvesh Mehtani, and he got a perverted score of 339/366. In the end, he also entered the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay as he wished.
Having said that, school is about to start, and countless high school students with lofty dreams are about to embark on a new journey.
Bless you, read and read more, work hard and work hard, don't forget the harsh words you said when you filled out the volunteer, and work hard to realize it!