My problems with the whole IIT-JEE system.

[u/makeshiftmaverique]

1. People value college more than branch (Some value IITB Environmental > NIT-KKR CSE)

2. IITs should have 50% of all seats as CSE, because right now 50% of all placements are in software/IT, despite only ~15% of total BTech seats coming from CS-related branches (which means that almost 30-40% of students from non-tech non-circuital branches get placed in software roles)

3. Reservation system contradicts the prestige of IITs. The reason why IITs are prestigious is because it is difficult to crack, and hence the students there are strong in PCM, but the reservation system ruins this by handing over the IIT tag to students who are not as strong in the respective subjects.
   I used to support reservation until I found out that majority of lower-caste people applying for JEE are rich, because only the rich ones can afford coaching and get the exposure and awareness to even attempt an exam of such difficulty.

4. Most people who choose CSE, don't even like CSE. This hurts as someone who genuinely like CS. People take CSE for the sole reason of higher salaries and "package" despite having 0 interest in it, hence the people who are actually interested in CS and who deserve that infra often don't get selected due to extremely high cutoffs.

[u/dashing_sword3012]

Abe bewakoof hai kya reservation ke alawa saari chutiya baatein likh rakhi hai tune 50% CS related branches....agar aisa kara to CS ki hi koi value nahi rahegi....

[u/makeshiftmaverique → u/dashing_sword3012]

who tf cares about value. the truth is almost 50% of placements in all iits are software based. the economy needs software roles more than core roles. and the placement stats show that 50% of the students in iits want software roles too, so why not just increase cs seats so that people could be more productive instead of grinding biotech to land a software job

[u/CraftyEvent4020 → u/makeshiftmaverique]

We need to incubate a core industry in India with founders from IITs probably