Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Open letter to the sadists who set AIPG 2012 

Disrespected sir/madam/clown,

This is not intended as a complaint letter. Nor is it an abuse message, so I will try and keep my use of four letter words to a minimum. This is, essentially, a question that I, a concerned citizen and medical student, wish to ask of the esteemed panel of examiners who set the questions for the single most important entrance examination for medical graduates. What the hell do you think you're playing at, you dumb freaks?

The purpose of an entrance examination into any course, since you've clearly forgotten, is to check if the applicant's knowledge is sufficient for him to cope with all the new things he or she must learn further in that course. Instead, you set questions that only the people who have actually finished the course can answer, and that too possibly. I can see that it has never occurred to you that the students who struggle and sacrifice for years, deserve, if not consideration, then at least courtesy, and not the mockery that you have so gleefully dealt out. 
Has it also ever struck you that the very point of specializations and super-specializations is that one person need not go to the depths of the million aspects of medicine, but rather have a thorough knowledge in one subject, and sufficient knowledge in the rest? Yet you expect graduate students with minimum experience to answer the same questions (in nineteen differrent subjects) that are asked to post graduates, who spend three years studying just that subject. The message that you seem to be conveying is that post graduation is a waste of time, because apparently there is nothing that we are not expected to know right now. 

I realize that in an examintion without a preset portion limit, you are legally allowed to set and ask any question. But it would be nice if you realized the consequences of setting papers such as this. Lakhs of medical students spend years attempting to mug up and remember endless amounts of information, half of which they will never again use in their medical careers. At the end of it, such a paper mockingly reminds them what we knew all along, that our field is limitless, and it is impossible to know everything, even after a lifetime spent studying it. Whereas all they really need on that day is an assurance that hard work pays off.
I can safely say that if the opportunity ever comes, any student can set a paper full of questions that the leading medical expert of the country cannot answer, because he didn't read the latest nature journal that researched on the effects of turtle blood on sores, or the percentage of children who fail in class 7th each year, or the change in the intra ocular pressure when someone hangs upside down and holds his breath. And yet, these questions can, and now that I have mentioned it, probably will come in next year's paper. 

(Right now, the news channels are full of cheating students and hidden cameras, and how some people would go to any lengths to get a seat etc. 
It is a testament to the paper, that this news has not bothered me so much. I know how they feel, and besides, I doubt there's anybody outside the centre who had a better shot at the paper than someone in it. There are times when even google can't help) 

I must end this letter with a short word of thanks. In the past, I have wasted a long time supporting the education system in my country, believing it to be ultimately good for us, as opposed to studying abroad. At least that is one argument I won't be having again.

 Yours truly disenchanted, 
Dr.

10 comments:

Dhrumin said...

Truly agree bro...there is an urgent need of repairing this education system by our country or else sooner there will be an acute lack of medical specialists in our country...students will go away from "THEIR INDIA" for further studies...and converting INDIA from developing to developed nation will be far from reality. And with this corruption seeping in even here (the cheaters should be termed as TERRORISTS) its not even developing now...under-developed would be the apt word for it..UNLESS something is done urgently.

Miti said...

Well written Siddharth. It's sad that we have to be at the receiving end of such a nonsensical paper and can't do anything about it other than just penning down a few words to get out the frustration. It's really very very unfair, as a doctor, as a student, as an individual who has put in more than he ever has.....

Gaurav Patil said...

Every word u'v said conveys exactly what every PG aspirant feels about the Medical education system. Its high time now that all of us stood up against the system. With such a system & especially such papers, there is no future for Post Grad. Medicine in India. Everyone should consider foreign options or General Practice instead of wasting precious years preparing for such an absurd exam.

Ankush Pawar said...

Would like to ask u all that instead of blaming d system do u people hav any kind of solution for d exam pattern?

Anonymous said...

I agree....
Such papers at dis stage bring da lucky ones in d front row nt d deserving ones...strange...if dis is gonna be happening every year..we wil hav to wish for better luck dn studying..
Sadly...we can't do anything abt our dis so called education system...i dont knw wat do they think an enterance xam is...either dey think we r super heros knwing every possible thing happening around or dey wanna make us look dumb fr studying hard for such stupid n senseless papers..

abhijit sangale said...

This insane(AIIMS) people ,don't know what hardwork is coz they themselves haven't faced any competitive exam in their times,they r just playing with us

Dhrumin said...

Pattern is ok...CONTENT of the paper is not ok....luck will play such an upper-hand in dis exam...how can we find a solution...the ppl who set this paper are educated enough I GUESS.

Smriti Khanna said...

So we're supposed to know everything and they're not even supposed to know how to spell?

Nachiket Joshi said...

non-sense paper bloody...........we all should have abused them on the rough work vala page................

Anonymous said...

these are the exact sentiments of every student who faced the AIPGMEE 2012!!