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What's secondary education like in India?

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Hugfyod · 02/02/2025 18:19

I'm curious about different education systems worldwide. Yes I could Google, but I was wondering if people here perhaps would be able to share real world experiences.

I imagine it to be super competitive and very geared towards the sciences. Also a lot of focus on rote memorisation.

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RoundSquareWithTriangles · 03/02/2025 19:54

I thought I would bump this up for you.

FatAgain · 03/02/2025 19:55

The schools can be enormous - my friends school had 3000 people!!

Hugfyod · 03/02/2025 19:55

RoundSquareWithTriangles · 03/02/2025 19:54

I thought I would bump this up for you.

Thank you!

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HundredPercentUnsure · 03/02/2025 19:57

FatAgain · 03/02/2025 19:55

The schools can be enormous - my friends school had 3000 people!!

Wow!

HundredPercentUnsure · 03/02/2025 19:57

I wonder what the class sizes are like with that many pupils 🤔

LaPalmaLlama · 03/02/2025 20:10

Honestly it massively depends on the state, whether you’re rural or urban and which system you are in. In many states the government system really only caters to the v poor who are often first generation learners. Anyone with a regular income uses a private school and these go from basically the equivalent of Eton to v basic set ups, some of which are barely better than the government schools. Gov School is often only half day with boys am/ girls pm or with schools sharing a premises. The Indians you would meet, say, at a UK university would almost universally have been educated privately and at a pretty “good” school, often using an international curriculum. The government has done a lot of work to improve attendance and at primary level, enrolment is now high 90%, attendance not much worse, but a lot of kids are lagging on basic literacy and numeracy, probably due to v large class sizes and not much scope for differentiated learning. Also a lot of kids have parents who can’t read or at least can’t read that language because they are internal migrants, so can’t support at home.

Hugfyod · 04/02/2025 11:05

I wanted to clarify, what's it like for those doing the CBSE or state curriculum.

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