JEE/ NEET, THE WHOLE ENTRANCE FESTIVAL AND DUMMY SCHOOLS! Author - Gokul M Kumar Joint Entrance Exam and National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, both are ranked among the world's toughest exams. Every year an average of 13 lakh students attend NEET and 12 lakh students attend JEE. Like Ganeshotsav and Holi, these entrance exams became one of the festivals of India, not only because of the population involved in it but also because of the economics involved in it. Allen ( one of the top Entrance coaching institutes in India) says on their website that they had given prices worth 1.5 crores in the year 2019 alone. For drawing a clear picture of the entrance economy we could simply check Allen’s fees, for the first year itself it cost around 120000. The economy is so huge therefore a lot of educational products and services are offered in this segment alone. Even a tablet program offered by Akash Byju alone costs around 75000. What is a dummy School? Dummy Schools are a produc...
Flipped Classroom the new reality and future Covid pandemic had substantially evoked a sense of dynamicity in every sector, especially in the educational sector of the country. The wind of revolution was so strong that the concept of teaching from home and learning from home became the order of the day and it eventually drove to the mushrooming of Ed-tech apps and online tuition supports. As a result, the app-based learning methodology has become so familiar that even in the rural outskirts of the country people are depending on it. But the fact to remember is all these changes had begun only after march 2020 ( some exceptions are there like the Byju's app and extra marks were there). Even if all these technological up-gradation and changes happened overnight, some visionaries were able to see the future and had worked on the concept more than one and a half decades ago. Jon Bergmann and Aaron Sam are two prominent names worth mentioning. These two academicians from Woodl...