Are there any unsuccessful IITians?

Pullela Gopichand It is when Pullela Gopichand failed an exam at IIT that he decided to concentrate on studies. The Chief badminton coach Pullela Gopichand, who guided Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu to Olympic medal wrote the engineering exam but failed.

Can IIT students go abroad?

Not even 200 of the approximate 10,000 students from the Indian Institutes of Technology took up positions outside India last year. In 2012, 84 IIT-B candidates had accepted international job offers. “Compared to 20 years ago, a very small percentage of students go abroad today.

Who are the most unsuccessful IITians in the country?

The most unsuccessful IITians in the country are those who disregard teaching as profession.. I am not talking about coaching institute teachers because all they do is to make students practise a few thousand problems. The foundation of scientific temper is laid down in preliminary stages like upper primary and secondary classes.

What are the problems faced by IITs in recruitment?

Problem lies with the ways IITs conduct recruitment exam. There is an urgent need to overhaul the recruitment process at IITs so that only genuinely-talented people grace the institutes. After all, Ranchhod-das Chanchad is required for making advances in Science ,not Chatur Ramlingam.

Is there a lot of parental pressure to get into IIT?

Not so today. Nowadays, parental pressure to get into IIT starts building on the child when he (I’ll refer to the IITian as a “he”, since the boy-girl ratio in the IITs is 10:1; in our time, it was 25:1) is in Class VII, maybe even earlier. These parents don’t give a damn about what the child’s real talents or interests are.

Why do IITians complain about science in India?

In India, IITians only complain at social media that this is bad,that is bad, government is bad, people are bad, Indians are bad. No one owns up to the obligations to do some research. Iran, the country which has suffered wide spectrum of sanctions from USA and Europe has been able to produce some of the finest scientists in the world.