Admission
The admission to IIT is via an
exam called JEE. Various
definitions for JEE have been
suggested. The most commonly
accepted of them is "Just
Engineering and Engineering".
The geeksand nerds of India start
preparing for IIT-JEE right after
entering kindegarten. A very
effective test of whether a guy is
fit for getting into the IITs is
asking a very simple question: "Do
you have a girlfriend"? A guy who
says anything else other than
"What's a girl?" would not get
through the test. Girls are
considered unfit to get into IITs,
though some girls manage to get
the application forms as they look
like guys. To make sure no girl
gets through the system by
bribing to get the application
forms, the applicants are required
to specify their gender and affix a
photograph in the application
form. Those faces that resemble
anything girly are not selected.
The entrance exam, IIT-JEE, is an
extremely selective undergrad
admission process (accepting less
than 3% of their applicants).
Whether it is extremely selective
or extremely rejective has always
been an issue of debate. Sources
close to the institute say that it
was designed to teach the masses
how to face rejection. The original
plan was to reject everyone, but
the fallout was that people
stopped taking the test. Eventually
they had to invent IITs so as to
inspire people to take the test.
As they say, if the input is right,
the output is automatically right.
The six-hour Joint Entrance Exam
held, as the name suggests, jointly
by IITs, consists only of questions
on Physics, Chemistry and Maths
and not on practical details
like Booze, Drugs, Crime, Pr0n etc.
which severely distort the quality
of the incoming students. Since
the Indians are well known for
cramming up loads of
information, questions in JEE are
never repeated.
Recently there have been a lot of
protests and demand to admit a
percentage of students on the
basis of quota system. Their
argument has been that IITs have
always admitted a large number
of students who came through
the Kota system, and all they are
demanding is correcting the
'historically wrong' spelling.
Opponents argue that this will be
unfair to the non-Kota (non-
quota) students and two wrongs
don't make a right.
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