What: It has been known to many people for many years. Many state level entrance examinations for engineering and medicinal courses do not set the minimum performance bars and allow candidates with ridiculously low scores to qualify. Here is a story from IBN-Live about EAMCAT, which is Andhra Pradesh state entrance examination for professional courses. It says 78 candidates getting zero marks in the test have been declared as eligible for taking admission. The story adds that some of them might have simply returned the paper blank. So essentially they qualified by just marking their attendance.
Why its here: This is an established monetary racket under the guise of "affirmative action". Several politicians and other educational mafia have built way too many engineering and medical colleges than there are interested candidates. When the seats in these colleges remain vacant, they don't get profits from their investment. As justifying low qualifying score for merit based admission would be difficult, they play this game of "no minimum qualifying score" for groups availing benefits of affirmative action.
Why its here: This is an established monetary racket under the guise of "affirmative action". Several politicians and other educational mafia have built way too many engineering and medical colleges than there are interested candidates. When the seats in these colleges remain vacant, they don't get profits from their investment. As justifying low qualifying score for merit based admission would be difficult, they play this game of "no minimum qualifying score" for groups availing benefits of affirmative action.
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