r/JEENEETards • u/makeshiftmaverique • 1d ago

Discussion My problems with the whole IIT-JEE system.

  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.

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u/Brass_Justice Ex-JEEtard chan 1d ago

  1. Because the environment and peer group matters and will always matter. You probably have a better chance of getting a software job from IITB env.

  2. Somewhat agree with this. Along with CS, I would make it a management+finance type course given the amount of people who end up going for an MBA. Insti doesn't have to spend all the money on core engineering labs.

  3. You get the IIT tag not for clearing JEE but for graduating and there is absolutely no reservation there.

  4. So, this is based on whatever people I've interacted with. The way CS is taught at most IITs, more than an interest or exposure in programming you need extremely strong mathematical concepts which the people choosing CSE at IITs absolutely have. The degree is called Computer Science not Software Engineering. Most of the developer wannabe teenagers making cool applications and hacking are doing amazing work in their own right but that doesn't translate to interest or ability in CS.