NEET & Test Frauds

Teenagers don’t think through all their decisions; most of it is impulsive, spontaneous, group-driven or emotional. So, they compress their feelings and experiences of a few years into very short or limited reactions and it can get more aggressive in a mob. Their frustration at being cheated at exams or love is far higher than a 40-year old man would feel at being passed on for promotion; some teens even commit suicide out of desperation. Thus, youth frustration at govt failures in exams or college fees or canteen fees or Reservations in education and jobs gets a far sharper response from the youth than it would get from a grown up person. The govt underestimated the youth anger over not just NEET but it was boiling over with joblessness, low-paying jobs, low opportunities and so on. The rosy picture that Narendra Modi often paints of India is just another of his grand FRAUDS of doing spectacularly well when India is still practically a 3^rd world country. The only reason developed nations mollycoddle Modi is because India is a huge market to dump their products.

The IRCTC has decent status indicators for tickets. It goes from Available to RAC to WL to Not Available to Regret. If a train has 1000 seats/berths, they might reserve 15% for Tatkal and maybe 5% for VIP/emergencies. At some point after WL they have to STOP booking because the chances of confirmation are zero. The actual journey might see encroachers in every coach but the system is not at fault, the implementation is. And that is the exact problem with NEET and other entrance FRAUDS. The system is not really at fault but crimes happen because of severe shortage and unmerited encroachers wanting to get in through the bathroom window:

Education in India, in general, is in shambles. All this nonsense of NEP2020 being some landmark policy or great leap into the future or great universities is the kind of Lipstick Modi peddles when the reality is far off. There are no “Entrance Tests” in India. They are basically a DECEPTIVE “Process of Elimination”. A process to weed out students that don’t fit into a course even by the WORST minimum standards set. As such, most of these entrance tests are also money-making frauds; NEET in particular. Modi and his corrupt govt spends more on doles, sustaining beggars, Revdis, bribes for women and farmers than it does on education and health:

The entrance tests like NEET, JEE, CUET are FRAUDS by govt rather than actually creating fair admissions for the merited. The cut-off marks in 12^th (40 to 50% based on caste) is not to let in the merited – It is to provide a bathroom window to the unmerited to get in by hook or crook and take chance through Reservations. In all these courses, India is still in the SHORTAGE situation. Whether its higher education courses or jobs, there are more applicants than the openings and seats available. And it is always in a “Shortage Market” that black-marketers, corruption-queens, paper-leaks, thieves and all the thugs of govt flourish. The worst calamity to fall on India is the mass boom of coaching classes that flourish due to the shortage of seats. Criminal enterprises flourish only in such a shortage domain. Even good students have to go to coaching classes because they not only have to win a race but also have to beat the quota junk. Here are some stats that simply look stupid when you look at the seats available: 

# NEET: Applicants – 22 lakhs. Nos that fail – 42%. No. of seats – 1.37 lakhs.

# JEE: Applicants – 13 lakhs. Nos that fail – 94%:  -  No of seats – 67000 

Given the severe shortage scenario, why should cut off  marks in 12^th for all the tests still be 40% to 50% - there is no logic behind it. Even regular colleges have raised their admission bar from about 70% to 80-90%. What will happen if all these FRAUDULENT entrance tests raise the 12^th score eligibility to, say, 70-80%? That will eliminate a large crowd from the entrance tests but, more importantly, it might also drastically reduce Quota Beggars who want to get in with 40-45%. That’s the covert fraud that the govt and the system bombs the merited with. Just go through this entire thread to understand how the NEET fraud is perpetrated by the GOI:

So, why was this NTA created as a “Registered Society” than as a PSU or agency through an Act of Parliament? That’s where the FRAUD of GOI starts that the media pimps ignore and the public remains mostly unaware. The CBSE, NBE (National Board of Exams) are subject to CAG audit. But the NTA is a “Society” so it is not subject to any CAG audit, so whatever scams they perpetrate is generally beyond the direct scrutiny of public and the taxpayer. How much money does the NTA make from NEET and other tests? A lot of its work is done by contracted workers and vendors – probably all the rolly-polly friends of BJP as in all other GOI contracts. Well, here’s a brief idea:

As explained, shortages always lead to various crimes, like black-marketing, bribes, paper-leaks and the menace of coaching classes. India has seen it all in cement, foodgrains, telephones, scooters and even perfumes. It is quite possible that most of the coaching classes are owned by relatives of politicians. There is no other reason to have such a vast population appearing for a test that has less than 5% seat availability. That’s like sellling 2 lakh tickets for a 180-seater aircraft. So, its not an entrance or admission test – It’s a FRAUD and a SCAM. Sure, students who may not do very well in 12^th need a second chance to pursue their life-goals but not to such an extent that they simply do not deserve or not up to the standard to pursue that course. 

Therefore, the entire FAKE ENTRANCE TEST scam is not really run as an “Admission qualification” test but to enable the ACADEMIC-JUNK to make an attempt to qualify. The consequence is more crimes and coaching nonsense. The top educational countries in the world don’t run coaching classes where parents send their kids from Class 4 or 5 to make them run a RAT-RACE. Most Western top educational countries have extra coaching within the school itself if required by some students. They are then measured for admissions by entrance-test scores, written assignments, sports achievements and prospects etc. There is a race but it’s not a rat-race like India. 

And as always, Modi comes up with his usual knee-jerk reactions like a new law to combat paper-leaks as if the current laws are not enough. Then he assembles a Task-force for exams headed by Nandan Nilekani with other prominent members. But they are just tasked with making the DELIVERY of the tests fool-proof and not with any REAL solutions; which is reducing the population of applicants for a very LOW number of seats. Unless you increase the 12^th cut-off marks for eligibility, all this nonsense is just lipstick and a waste of money:

The only other way to allow a large population take these tests is to run them more frequently. SAT runs their test every month for 7 months in a year. The GRE test is run round the year and you can take it any time and even from your home. All these tests are digitally run and supervised at designated test centres or digitally supervised (as in GRE) even at home. The physical need for a large population to go and take a test at the same date and time is invariably diseased with every chance of fraud and scam. Modi’s stupid new law only offers more punishment for paper-thefts but it does not solve the problem of the theft itself. Because these political fools are NOT addressing the source of the problem, they are just pretending to apply makeup and lipstick on the theft to pacify the public:

In case of Reservations, many OBCs are now doing better and that is a justifiable case for reducing quotas but for no reason quotas have gone up to 65-70%. Modi himself is not a very educated man and most of his ministers and BJP members are also not very educated or intelligent. Given all that has happened, it is evident that there is NO REAL REFORM in anything concerning education or entrance tests. So, don’t expect some miracle to happen. Frauds will continue to happen because the govt’s goal is NOT education – it is merely to get a chunk of the junk population into higher courses.

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Why India Fails In Football

Who the hell is Charles Miller? Long ago, I knew as much about him as the computer-inventor Charles Babbage. But Miller, a Scotsman, was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil and returned to UK for his studies. When he returned to Brazil in 1894, he brought a football with him, something not so familiar to Brazilians. He organised teams with sailors and locals and organised football matches. In just over half a century, Brazil had become a powerhouse in football. The grave and memorials to Charles Miller (1874-1953) still stand in Brazil:

When did modern football come to India? Cricket first came to India around 1721 but football came around 1854. Naturally, football came to Calcutta which was the HQ of the British but it came to India much before many British colonies in Africa or South America. So, naturally, we have to wonder why so many of their countries became so good at football and we didn’t:

In fact, in all the colonies that took to football, it was the poor and working class who took to it while the elite had their own indoor card-games or courtyard games (That’s why it’s called a Tennis or Badminton Court) or in case of England, they had Cricket. Thus, India with all its poverty and backward people should have naturally taken to football. But, Indians of all classes happily took to cricket instead. Thus, lack of mass participation led to poor administration, poor infrastructure, poor local leagues and football suffered in India.

India has often been invited to the G7 meets because it’s a vast country and not because it is any great power. India’s vastness makes it a huge market for everything that the developed countries can sell to from Toothpaste to Tesla. The Americans have a nice way of describing their good towns. They define it as a “good place to live, work and play”. India missed that “play” part in defining their life. Just look at all the G7-G20 countries. There is only one sore country that has never been in a football World Cup final tournament – India:

One of the great signs of a developed nation or “Vikshit Nation” is that it is also good at sports. The top-10 GDP countries are all good at sports except India. That is ironic, because given the poor masses that India has, football offers more professional careers than cricket will ever do. Even famous players like Baichung Bhutia or Sunil Chhetri have earned well in lower level leagues abroad than most people in Indian sports (except cricket). And cricket has lesser opportunities worldwide than football does:

So, let’s get down to business and ask the question – Why does India do so badly in football. Many have argued that we are good at hand-eye-coordination games like cricket, hockey or TT. That may be a reason but the biggest reason is that Indians are some of the poorest “team-players” in the world. And football requires a very high level of team-play. If you cite cricket, it is a team game only by total number of players but at any single time, all the players are not in action together. At the most one batter, wicket-keeper, bowler and a couple of fielders are in action every time the game is in motion. All players are not in action together. The “unity in diversity” is another hoax that is fed to Indians without the essence of “teamwork”. Indians are pulled apart by States, languages, communities, castes, colour, religion and that fire of division is fueled more by politicians. This article from long ago explains this a bit:

I could argue that though cricket is not an entire team-game the way football is, at least hockey in terms of team-play is similar to football. And in hockey we have been good and still in the Top-10. The reason for that is in hockey, the competition is not that worldwide. The best hockey playing teams in the world are no more than 20-30 whereas football goes way beyond 100. In cricket too, the real cricket playing countries are no more than 8-10 so we are able to compete well. In all other games like Volley-ball or Basket-Ball, we crumble because all the players of both teams play in the action.

The other big reason is one that will offend many Indians but it is mostly true. Indians are weak at Spatial intelligence (often the reason why our modern architecture is average or sometimes even ugly), the masses are low in IQ and other cognitive and decision abilities. Unlike cricket, fast-moving games like football require spatial awareness, cognitive abilities and dealing with environmental chaos. For instance, the “decision density” (meaning the number of decisions you have to make per minute) is far higher in sports like football or tennis than say in cricket. Thus, Indians are comfortable with a slow-paced game like cricket in the competitive world. Except for the former colonial countries in Asia, cricket is not the most popular game in any country in the world. Mental agility requirement is lower in cricket than many other tough sports. So, we not only perform badly in football but even in most sports in Olympics:

However, many Indians are good at running down others. During the current World Cup, Portugal didn’t make it far and Christiano Ronaldo didn’t win any world cup, so the idiots at Timesnow were quick to run him down as having a “Black Mark” on his career or resume. There is no such black mark in sports. Everyone plays to win, everyone does their best. Football is high emotion in almost every country. Even in India fans are emotional and passionate about their favourite teams like Argentina, Brazil, Germany or England. They watch European league games and are fanatics for Manchester United, Arsenal or Liverpool or whichever their favourite team is:

Can India become a world player in football? Of course, we can. Kicking is a natural instinct for every human – it’s fun. Football started in China around 200 BC as kicking a leather ball through a hoop. England masses started playing football in the 14^th century with the bladder of a pig. Young school kids walking home kick a paper box or a small rock all the way home. Many of us have done it during our childhood. It keeps their mind occupied, gives a psychological feeling of control and uses up the time productively.

Modi and his BJP goons only fed cricket which was already popular and rich while they ignored all other games. Hosting a football world cup brings a lot more respect and money than even Olympics. Because private institutions were never strong in sports in India, the govt has to step in and controls most of the sports. If the govt decides to promote football in a big way across all schools with training, competition and rewards, I am sure football can grow in a big way. Naveen Patnaik revived hockey performance with special interest and programs. Remember, the Brazilians are not physically as strong as some of the Europeans are but yet they remain a big powerhouse in football. Too much hype of cricket has made India redundant in most other sports. And cricket does not provide jobs to more than 1000 players at any time. Football is a far bigger economy and a much bigger employer worldwide. 

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