It very much seems weightage to class 12th has lot to do in this. Coaching centers are demonized, but now there are new methods to get unfair advantage:
IIT entry turns into a lopsided ‘board game’, 80% candidates from 3 boards
For long, when it came to getting into an Indian Institute of Technology, signing up with the right coaching centre was what mattered more than which school board you attended. But the new entrance exam system, which gives weightage to class XII scores of candidates, has changed the rules of the game in one fell swoop.
The list of candidates selected last week for the IITs showed that a vast majority of the successful candidates – more than 8,000 out of 9,700 – or over 80% came from just three school boards: the CBSE, Andhra Pradesh and Punjab state boards.
More than 5,500 students come from the CBSE board. Then, there are close to 1,800 of them from Andhra Pradesh and another 750 from Punjab. There are 30 other boards in India from where a small count of students has qualified. There are anywhere between five and 10 to a little more than a 100 students from some other boards.
In other words, if you want to get into one of these premier engineering institutes, it appears that passing class XII from one of these boards gives you an edge over competition.
Many students say a whimsical selection process has given an unfair advantage to students of certain boards. But IIT officials rubbish that. “Honestly, we had no clue that the Punjab state board would rank up there among the top three. We feel making it to the IITs has a lot to do with the coaching facilities available to students,” said an IIT director.
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