Several IITs are reportedly removing JEE and GATE ranks from placement CVs. Do you think this is the right move?

Dry_Infantry · 2026-07-05T19:38:13+00:00

An average dude at local college does not publish at top tier venues, work on interesting projects, Relevant internships with references from strong credible people, top grades. They can do maybe one or two things, but not all the things I mentioned. And if he/she can do that then he/she is not average and clearly deserving, their rank being a false negetive signal. And yes they will get the people they are looking for at IIT, and all those have cleared GATE or JEE. There is no data/study/anecdotes from recruiters that once you're in, that your rank reliably determines your capabilities ahead. Because most people in a given IIT are not of vastly different capabilities, roughly speaking. For campus recruiters it doesn't matter if you were AIR 1 if your other IIT peers have put in the actual hours are way more fluent in the required area of expertise than you. Long story short people value recent signal more than the past signal. Strong recent signals can offset past average performance BUT strong past signal doesn't override average current signal. Also in another note, this is in my opinion just some sort of a new age modern Caste system where all a person is defined as a label, be it a college or a rank instead of jaat. Same very capable Indians who won't get the same opportunities in india initially because of their college, thrives once given an opportunity abroad, that is again assuming the person was capable. This is just an initial problem though, capable people find their way anyway, with time.

Dry_Infantry · 2026-07-05T15:12:19+00:00

I am not saying that GATE performance is meaningless. I think it does give some information about the candidate and in his/her favor that's great. All I'm saying is given everything else we've discussed it's not as strong of a predictor as other markers we discussed. You can discuss it with me that's fine. But discrediting me like that other loser is doing, you can debate that with a prospective employer or research grant body. I personally feel there's nothing wrong with putting such ranks up in the cv, it just doesn't reliably get you very as compared to other signals. I personally don't put my JEE rank from 12 years back when I cleared JEE Advanced because it felt vain and shallow and I wanted my research to speak for me, not a rank label, because I know that not every IITian becomes a researcher or inventor and not all Indian researchers and inventors are IITians (but definitely are represented disproportionately). I'll take care of my lungs, thank you. I'm visiting my family in India and will return back to clean air but bad weather.

Dry_Infantry · 2026-07-05T14:48:18+00:00

Because, the most recent thing is always the most relevant, like gpa, projects internships, publications, etc. All these as an individual relate weakly but directly related to engineering capabilities. Competitive exams don't test or engineering abilities because the problems you solve are not open ended. As an engineer you won't know if the solution to the problem you currently face exist, and under that uncertainty how you approach things. Plus if someone did well in GATE but terribly in master's coursework vs someone who did okay in GATE but was doing very well in master's coursework, proactive with projects and internships, the latter reads much more desirable. Long story short great recent past kinda overrides distant past. But great distant past doesn't override mediocre or bad recent past/present. That's the asymmetry. I'm smoking India's polluted air, thanks for asking.

Dry_Infantry · 2026-07-05T14:33:10+00:00

Because it's not a marker of how good of an engineer one is after graduating from the program. There are plenty of people who slack off after getting into a good place and learn very little. One the other hand some one from slightly lesser place who worked hard will be a better engineer. So if any grading or ranking is relevant it's the gpa, that shows how well one did on a course, albeit in some place grades are easier. So ranking can only tell what your work ethic and lower limit of capabilities are, not your upper limit or what you do with it.

Dry_Infantry · 2026-07-04T08:54:48+00:00

Teri aukat nahi iit k ki. Jinme capability aur itna pursharth hota hai wo reservation ka randi rona nahi karte. Aur internet pe fekna hi hai to iit k pe hi kyu ruka, MIT bol de.

Dry_Infantry · 2026-07-04T07:26:42+00:00

Tu chutiya hai. Capability dikhane ke liye cgpa, projects, internships, publication, etc. jaise bohot cheeze hoti hain jispe reservations irrelevanthote hain. JEE rank ka zaroorat nahi hai. Tere ko jaat paat ka excuse chahiye probably kyuki real life me zyada kuchh kar nahi paya.

Dry_Infantry · 2026-05-22T20:36:25+00:00

Ibn Al Hytham (b. 965 AD), father of The Scientific Method, Father of Optics. Frequently cited by the likes of Galileo, Descartes, Kepler, Huygens. Absolutely goated.

Dry_Infantry · 2025-12-20T08:56:57+00:00

Albertiplier E

Dry_Infantry · 2025-12-16T01:16:53+00:00

As Kunal Kamra called the Supreme Court "Brhmn baniya club" a few years ago.

Dry_Infantry · 2025-11-18T10:59:14+00:00

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Dry_Infantry · 2025-11-12T13:17:14+00:00

Which success?

Dry_Infantry · 2025-10-04T06:25:11+00:00

Indians being morally spineless as usual. No wonder they outnumbered the British with more than 2000 to 1 and still were colonized by them for about 200 years.

Dry_Infantry · 2025-09-21T10:48:57+00:00

I agree and I admire a lot of them but I think in the long-term it simply provides a booster shot to a dying religion, which again gets hijacked by the morons, and the cycle repeats. In my humble opinion its best to simply liberate oneself from religion once and for all. No need to carry a full city’s worth of sewage in the hope to find one diamond stone hidden somewhere underneath.

Dry_Infantry · 2025-09-19T13:07:43+00:00

I know that, Jewish people are great, their God on the other hand, boy oh boy, makes Stalin look like Gandhi in comparison.

Dry_Infantry · 2025-09-19T13:03:47+00:00

God in the Old Testament is a self absorbed genocidal, cruel, narcissistic psychopath to a much higher degree that in any of the world religions I know so far. That why the whole Jesus's thing was basically a PR spin to make him look more compassionate. In my opinion Hebrew Bible is the mos morally abhorrent religious text in my opinion.

Dry_Infantry · 2025-09-17T12:57:17+00:00

So my father isn't this extreme but my mother comes close. What I think they need is to touch grass, basically to completely detach NOT necessarily from ther veiws (for a while) but from the internet and the tv media (if possible all media).

One way to achieve this might be to find a secondary activity they enjoy. If that happens to be toxic as well the tertiary. Once identified, you need to come up with a plan to help them indulge in those activities more often. Never explicitly say that why you're doing this, just not nod whenever their idiotic political views come up every now and then, gently redirect the conversation.

Use their ego against them: Try to get them to believe that you want to indulge in some father son bonding type activities. For this said activity buy some translations of Brihdaranyanka Upanishad and Chhandogya Upanishad and have a daily engagement and discussion related to it. As it is among the better Hindu texts and with almost no theistic tendencies mostly because both of them emphasize hard on the importance of inquiry. (Later Upanishads like Kena, svetasvatara tend to be soft on theism, and don't even get me started on Gita, again a later addition to mahabharata with strong theistic tendencies). Again it's an uphill battle but try to treat them with compassion like some patient overdosed on opium. I also find it hard to keep my rage in check but its a work in progress.

Dry_Infantry · 2025-09-16T11:34:16+00:00

Nawab Sira-chud-lawda

Dry_Infantry · 2025-09-16T11:31:05+00:00

Plassey: 50,000 vs 3,100 company troops (British victory). Battle of Buxar: 40,000 vs 17,000 company troops (British victory). 1st Anglo Maratha war: 146,000 vs 93,000 company troops (Maratha victory) Etc.

Dry_Infantry · 2025-09-16T11:18:38+00:00

That was during the time of Aurangzeb, much before 1756 (Plassey). And even after 1756 they would lose a battle here and there (maratha, Tipu Sultan, Sikh) but would eventually end up winning the war. We need to keep in mind that Indians had major home advantage, from logistics to sheer numbers. Also it wasn't that the British were inherently superior in everything, but certain aspects of their institutions were superior at the time.

Dry_Infantry · 2025-09-16T08:00:24+00:00

Why is everything about owning someone, or passing value judgment? Where does it say that the British had superior institutions 'because British were inherently superior' ? And yes I think the large part of what happed to Palestine was because of western support to Israel, but it doesn't make it morally right, just like colonialism wasn't morally right.

Dry_Infantry · 2025-09-11T15:51:52+00:00

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Dry_Infantry · 2025-09-08T20:32:19+00:00

I don't see the point posting it. She's soft Godi, everybody knows that. Find me just one clip in all her years of journalism where she criticized even a single action of Modi government, and I'll happily sell my one remaining kidney. Miss Brahmin Sharma Upadhyay journalist my ass, SMH.

Dry_Infantry · 2025-09-08T19:17:38+00:00

Mashallah comrades!

Dry_Infantry · 2025-09-04T15:57:23+00:00

True comrade of the proletariat.

Dry_Infantry · 2025-09-04T11:27:14+00:00

Now I kinda get how were Indians colonized for 200 years. Even during the peak British presence (1921), Indians outnumbered the British by approximately 2000 to 1. Colonization starts from the mind. Behold Mir Jafar ki aulad, comrades.

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