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Competitive exams are evil, a serious problem in Asian countries including India. People have to survive inhumanly hard, exhausting studying regimes just to land a job which hardly uses a humble portion of what they learnt. Exams should only check if the attendant is skilled sufficiently for the degree/job. Competitive exams could have their organic place in the world as a kind of professional intellectual sports though.

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The exams are hard since it is a poor country without many good university spots. There isn't much you can do about that, except increase the number of spots until the requirements to get in are no longer that high.

Edit: And the main problem with increasing the number of seats is corruption. You can't just give people money and expect them to create an institution that actually educates people. All of the processes required to make that work will have to be made and expanded etc. It takes a long time to go from corrupt poor country into a modern country where things like education exists in abundance.

>People have to survive inhumanly hard, exhausting studying regimes just to land a job which hardly uses a humble portion of what they learnt.

I always thought the purpose of these kinds of exams was to determine if you had enough work ethic to pass them. The information actually included is peripheral at best most of the time.

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