Saturday, April 18, 2009

The Cram skool @ Indian Scenario

Kota which is in Rajastan, India has become a boom town in providing education as more indians seek to send their children to Kota to study for entrance exams for prestigious Indian Institute of Technologies.
Students study for two years just for one entrance exam. They need to study full time. Mostly students come here to prepare for IIT's but also for other colleges and universities.
M.R.VinodKumar, who credited with starting the cram-school craze when he started to terach the students in the 1980's says"At first around eight of us studied around my dinning table.Then i added a few stools to make it 12. Likewise i keep on adding the chairs, which resulted in a big school".
Currently, Vinod teaches 17,000 students. they study for six days a week and one Sunday a month, they have a six hour test which is set up just like the IIT entrance exam.
Students should have completed more than 20 mock test, After two years. The course cost about $1,500 a year.

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