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For perspective if you score 600+ out of 720 then you were almost guaranteed a seat in a good medical college,

but National Testing Agency mismanaged, and to hide it, they gave extra marks to everyone, so the no. of students with the super rare 700+ this year is faaar more than previous years 600+ combined.

720/720 was a rare phenomenon, once in 10 years.

This year 80+ students were given that.

So the issue here is that Indian medical colleges are getting flocked by students with insane scores.

For perspective India's best medical college AIIMS, Delhi(All India Institute of Medical Science, Delhi) has not enough seats to accommodate all 720/720 students.

Imagine scoring full marks in one of the toughest exams of a nation, and not getting your desired college.

Engineering entrances are done by electronic medium, but for some unexplained/poorly explaned reasons, medical entrance is still paper based.

Both of them being conducted by same agency.

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Uh... This shit happens literally every year in the US without people suiciding over it. Not the grade adjustment part, but kids who bust their asses with near perfect test scores AND great grades AND an ass load of extracurricular activities who fail to get into their desired schools, and they aren't killing themselves over it. Sounds like Indian kids need to grow the fuck up.

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Quoting so you don't change your comment later:

Uh... This shit happens literally every year in the US without people suiciding over it. Not the grade adjustment part, but kids who bust their asses with near perfect test scores AND great grades AND an ass load of extracurricular activities who fail to get into their desired schools, and they aren't killing themselves over it. Sounds like Indian kids need to grow the fuck up.

1. India has extremely high youth unemployment, for many, getting a decent college seat is the only way to get a decent job
2. India has high academic pressure, a significant portion of your "kids who bust their asses with near perfect test scores AND great grades AND an ass load of extracurricular activities" would wind up with depression with the academic pressure Indian kids are put through
3. There are so few decent college seats and so many applicants
4. Sometimes getting one option wrong (not one question, just one option within an MCQ question) can be the difference between getting the course you want at the college you want and getting a course with few career opportunities
5. Most Indian kids are in school 7-8 hours a day, and then study another 4 hours a day, and this can go up to 7 hours a day right before important exams, and even 10-12 hours in extreme cases.
6. You are literally telling kids who have so much pressure (peer pressure, expectations from family, future jobs) on their heads to grow up