speech on the rat race of competitive exams
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Imagine millions and millions of people all running one race. The race is both a sprint and a marathon. It’s more like running for your life every day. At least, that’s how it’s made to seem. It’s a race to an elusive dream. To win this, one must let go of almost everything else. Some run far from home, some run without sleep.
This is real, and it’s called ‘The Rat Race’. For those who are from India, they know this issue all too well. The rat race is caused by the extremely small number of seats in decent engineering and medical colleges and is fuelled by the craze for students to pursue those professions. The problem is on an insane scale. Each year, more than a million students enrol to take the ‘Joint Entrance Exam’ [1]. Then, the top 10,000 students get to write the next level of the examination for the prestigious ‘Indian Institutes of Technology’. The top 50,000 will get admitted to the ‘National Institutes of Technology’. The rest will either attend private or state level institutions, or not attend college at all.