The entrance examination is becoming an obsession among young people in India. The selection of the Chinese national examination, which is comparable in nature to the Chinese national examination, has been rated by many as "the most cruel exam in the world". In 2022, more than 1.13 million Indian candidates registered for the public examination, and in the end, only 933 successfully landed. The acceptance rate is 1217:1, and the real army crosses the single-plank bridge. The Indian national examination is divided into 3 rounds throughout the year, and some people have calculated that if you want to pass all the exams, it takes more than 30 hours to answer the questions alone. 
The 2023 Indian national examination has not yet completely ended. It is such a life-and-death exam, but the number of applicants is increasing. In order to limit the number of public examinations, India even restricts ordinary candidates to only participate in public examinations 6 times in their lifetime. But it still hasn't stopped the rising number of applicants. In order to go ashore for the examination, young people in India began to study the "metaphysics of the examination".
Some people have been in retreat for 3 years to prepare for exams, refusing all social interactions, and the whole family is divided into labor to assist; Some people gave up their high-paying jobs as programmers in large factories to seek a public job; After someone gets a million-dollar bonus, his life plan is to sign up for a counseling agency for the first time and concentrate on taking the public ......
Some time ago, the Indian film "The Failure of the Twelfth Grade" once became a national topic in India and was selected to participate in the selection of Oscars foreign language films. This movie, which depicts the poor boy Manojie who has been defeated repeatedly in the public *** and finally changed his life, not only received more than 700 million rupees at the box office, but also got 9A super high rating of 2 points. You know, even "Three Fools Make a Mess in Bollywood" is only 84 points only. 
For audiences in the rest of the world, it's nothing more than an ordinary inspirational film. But for Indian audiences, it is a microcosm of the struggles and struggles of countless people. 
Indian national examination, involution hellIn "The Failure of the Twelfth Grade", the protagonist Ma Nuojie took the national examination four times before going ashore, not because of insufficient IQ or effort, but because:India's public *** is too difficult. 
The number of applicants at the level of one million and the number of positions of less than 1,000 are the common situation of the Indian national examination in recent years. To say that this is a single-plank bridge crossed by thousands of horses seems to be overly optimistic - this is a tightrope walking by thousands of troops. 
BBC: Perhaps only China's college entrance examination can match it In "Failure in Grade 12", although Ma Nuojie took the exam four times, the result was good after all. However, the current situation of more monks and less porridge determines that more candidates are just wasting their youth in the annual national examination. In the movie, Manojie has an important guide, who is his fellow villager Gaoli.
This senior, who has participated in the national examination 6 times, all failed - according to the regulations of the Indian government, he has used up all his examination qualifications. 
Even so, Gao Li still did not leave the examination industry, but continued to run his "re-examination teahouse". After devoting all his youth to the public examination, he finally found that he could not do anything but take the exam– This is the personal experience of many candidates. The national examination is too difficult, and some people choose to settle for the second best thing and choose the provincial examination (state examination). The provincial exam is much simpler, and the acceptance rate is "as high" as 1%-5%. But the pay is also much lower. India's civil service system is divided into 18 levels, and civil servants born in the national examination start at least 10 levels of civil servants, and enter the industry through local public ***, they can only start from a low rank. Even if you are conscientious, it often takes more than ten years to have a chance to catch up with the starting point of the former. 
Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba, India's only 18th grade civil servantFor Indians, the exam is not a multiple-choice question, but a fill-in-the-blank question. those who are admitted will glorify their ancestors; If you can't pass the test, you will fight again. Everything is inferior, only the public high school is examined. Anudeep Durishitty, who graduated from India's prestigious school Bits Pilani, found an enviable job as soon as he graduated: a software engineer at Google. 
Although he earned a good income, in the end, "his inner call to serve the country led him to abandon his position and embark on the difficult path of civil service". Anudeep Durishitty joined the national examination and won the first place in India in 2017 and successfully landed ashore. After coming ashore, he opened a personal blog to share his experience in taking the exam, and also published a book of exams:
Title: Teaching with Answering Basics If you suddenly won the lottery of fate, what are you going to do? Sushil Kumar, a clerk from Bihar, saidExam for the public. In 2011, on a TV quiz show in India, the young man answered all 13 questions correctly and won a huge prize of 50 million rupees in one fell swoop, staging a real-life version of "Slumdog Millionaire".
After receiving the check, Kumar said that with the money, he would no longer have any worries. He is ready to move to Delhi to find a good training institution and once again hit his dream of being a civil servant.
At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, India, with a population of more than a billion people, produced only one Olympic champion: javelin thrower Chopra Neeraj.
According to incomplete statistics, after Chopra won the championship, he received a total of more than 100 million rupees from ** at all levels and associations, but what Indians envy the most is:He was offered a guaranteed place in the civil service.
Indian civil servants, what the hell is going on? India's civil service system is modeled after the British civil service.
In this system, although the total number of employees exceeds 20 million, most of them are only contract workers. Only a few thousand people are the real state civil servants.
Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh celebrates the annual Civil Service Day to squeeze into the ranks, and there is basically only one way to take the exam. India's national examination is a long marathon, which is divided into three stages: preliminary examination, main examination, and interview. The preliminary examination consists of two general education exams, while the main exam consists of nine exams with a variety of questions, covering various areas such as Indian history and culture, politics, environment, security, crisis management, technology, economic development, biodiversity, etc. After passing this hurdle, you will have the opportunity to meet the final round of interview panels. It takes more than 30 hours just to complete these 12 exams, and the time and energy spent before and after are even more incalculable. The registration season begins in February every year. The preliminary examination is held in June of the same year, the main examination is held in September, and the final round of interviews is generally held from February to April of the following year.
From registration to the three rounds of exams, the time span is more than one year. Compared with the mode of winning or losing a battle, this experience of cutting meat with a blunt knife is simply a practice. To stand out, the Indians pulled out all the stops. Gamini Singala, who ranked third in the 2021 Indian National Examination, can be called the epitome of Indian public examiners.
In order to prepare for the exam, she gave up her vacation for three years, gave up socializing, didn't watch movies, quit social software, refused family gatherings and friend gatherings, retreated at home alone, memorized by rote, brushed past questions, and when she couldn't hold on, she opened youtube to watch inspirational ** to cheer herself up.
Whoever doesn't brush the questions will be brushed for one person to take the exam, and the whole family will go into battle. Singla's family also served as a wingman for her during the three-year preparation for the exam. My father subscribed to several major newspapers and regularly sorted out important current affairs news and policy changes every day, while my brother helped my sister brush up on questions, and my grandparents were not idle: they offered incense and prayed to their granddaughter every day. This is something that family members can help, and more people can only turn to institutions for help. In 2022, the entire Indian tutoring industry earned a whopping $5808800 million rupees (about 50.8 billion yuan), and this figure is expected to reach 13,399 by 2028Rs 500 million. A considerable part of this comes from the public examination training class.
It is not for nothing that students who do not register for classes and pass the national examination by self-study, but they either have outstanding talent, amazing perseverance, or both, and they have a little family background.
In "Failure in the Twelfth Grade", the protagonist meets a senior who is completely self-taught. Even if he already has successful experience, his predecessors still persuade the male protagonist Ma Nuojie: find a (training) class. Every year, as soon as the national examination is over, India's major examination institutions will set off a battle to show their muscles to potential candidates and show their strength.
Good news: The students of this institution won the first place in the national examination of India, taking the 2017 Indian national examination as an example, a total of 990 candidates successfully landed this year. After the results were announced, ALS, a tutoring centre located in Delhi, claimed that 244 of them were their students; Another tutoring agency, Vajiram&r**i, claims to have more than 400 students ashore, beating its competitors. Another organization, Chanakya, also said that 355 of the candidates for the title of the gold list were their people. Unless one of these candidates is a big ice, there is clearly something wrong with this set of numbers:There are too many institutions, and the landing indicators are not enough. In the movie "Failure of the Twelfth Grade", Ma Nuojie finally listened to the advice of his seniors to register for the class, but accidentally found the name of his predecessor on the wall of the training class.
The celebration wall of the well-known Indian organization Vajiram&r**iThis is the basic exercise of the Indian public examination training industry: once you successfully break through the siege, you will immediately be asked to sign a contract with the training course, as long as you are willing to endorse the institution, you will immediately pay a lot of advertising fees. The wool comes out of the sheep. A considerable part of these fees have to be collected from the next class of trainees. In order to crack down on this kind of behavior of selling dog meat on the head of a sheep, at the end of last year, India** specially announced an official policy: all candidates who passed the national examination are not allowed to endorse any training institution.
The above-mentioned institutions are among the top in India and generally charge 200,000 rupees (about 1.).70,000 yuan), which is far from being affordable for the poor. With the development of the Internet economy, many first-class education projects have also begun to deepen the field of public examinations. Many institutions have made it clear that they want to make the public examination no longer expensive. Perhaps, soon the Indians will be able to usher in their own Zhonggong and Huatu.
Civil servant, the modern myth of India
Indian civil servants can make Indians flock to it, first of all, because the pay is really good. In the case of the Administrative Service (IAS) of India, the starting salary of a civil servant is 560,000 rupees (about 4,800 yuan), which can reach up to 250,000 rupees (about 2.).150,000 RMB). At the same time, the median monthly income of ordinary people in India is only 27,200 rupees (about 2,354 yuan).
And that's just the base salary. In addition to salaries, civil servants are entitled to a wide range of welfare programs, including free medical care, transportation subsidies, housing subsidies, food subsidies, communication subsidies or subsidies for difficult areas. Combined, these subsidies often exceed the basic salary. Even take 5Civil servants with a starting salary of 60,000 can also earn 150,000 rupees in real terms. For higher-ranking positions, there are also a series of benefits such as free housing, free cars (the kind with drivers), live-in nannies, cooks, etc., which are proper "people".
An Indian civil servant shared on Twitter the story of his landing in the public examination and changing the hut for the big house, winning 1India became the world's most populous country last year, but in the past 10 years, it has not been able to create new net jobs. Under the rising unemployment rate, a high-paying job that has been the same for decades is undoubtedly a bright torch in the middle of the night. India's civil service system was born out of the civil service system during the British colonial period, and the core is the separation of party affairs and government affairs. In India, civil servants are not involved in any political party activities. Therefore, no matter how the ruling party changes or the political situation changes, civil servants can always sit firmly in the Diaoyutai area. In India, it may be harder to fire a civil servant than to remove a minister. An engineer in India's ** engineering department was finally fired from the ministry after absenteeism for no reason and 24 years of salary for nothing. In terms of social status, civil servants are even fuller. In India's marriage market, weaving is an invincible artifact. In 2018, a young man named Manjeet Raj who failed the national examination used his rich experience to fake himself as a national civil servant. With this identity, he almost became the son-in-law of the former education department, and the other party was not only willing to marry his daughter to him, but also promised to pay a dowry of 100 million rupees (about 8.6 million yuan).
Angry netizens left a message: Is that girl's family a fool, arranging her marriage like a **house, as if it were a transaction in advance. Would they marry their daughter to an honest middle-class man? A university professor responded to India's "exam fever" in an interview: "In a country where good jobs in the private sector are limited and the state dominates everyday life, civil service is a coveted profession. "For the people at the bottom,Gong *** is one of the few channels in India that can truly achieve class jumping. In real India, inequalities in terms of region, gender, and caste are almost overwhelming. Here, the richest 1% of people master the country 405% wealth.
Today's richest man in Asia is also an Indian with systematic, systemic discrimination that permeates every aspect of the country. The caste system, which still governs India to this day, is a striking example. Under the caste system, the lowest Dalits (untouchables) were only allowed to work in the lowest jobs, with meager salaries and a difficult life. India has 2The 800 million Dalits account for 20% of the country's entire population, but only 1% in the workplace. After India's independence in 1947, with the unremitting efforts and struggles of the untouchable civil rights leader Ambedkar, India began to implement a reservation policy for untouchables and remote tribes, that is, to reserve a certain number of places for relatively disadvantaged groups in **, state-owned enterprises and universities. Because these groups are listed in the Constitution, they are referred to as "scheduled castes" and "scheduled tribes". Instead of restricting the lower castes, the public can sign up for as long as their nationality and educational qualifications meet the criteria. There are also 15% of the admission places reserved for the list of castes, 75% of the seats are reserved for the list tribes. Moreover, the average person can only take the national examination a maximum of 6 times, with an upper age limit of 32 years, and Dalit and Scheduled Tribes can take the examination an unlimited number of times until the age of 37. The civil service system was designed from the outset with a vision to promote caste equality through policy tilts.
Ambedkar, the "father of the Indian constitution" who was born in the untouchables, is a well-known anti-caste person, and it is precisely because of this that countless people at the bottom of India have bet all their chips on it, hoping to leap over the dragon gate and turn their lives around. But in countries of systemic discrimination and widespread inequality, this artificial fairness is always teetering. In 2011, the Indian government carried out a reform that significantly increased the requirements for candidates' English proficiency, so that people who received a good English education from an early age will have a clear competitive advantage. In "Failure in Grade 12", Manoje's predecessor, Gori, is a Hindi candidate from a backward caste, and even though he tries his best, he fails to make it out of the English candidates.
Under the pressure of the nation, India finally compensated each of the candidates who took the test that year for an extra chance to take the exam. However, according to statistics, since the reform in 2011, the number of Hindi candidates in the admission list has begun to decline year by year. For the poor, the high cost of tuition and the dedication to preparing for the exam are even more incompatible. Many people go into debt to prepare for the exam, and after years of stumbling back and forth, end up with nothing but debt.
In the face of widespread inequality in India, hundreds of civil service jobs are a drop in the bucket. But for young Indians, this is already the only narrow gate.