Re: [IAC#RG] No political party has resolve to eliminate reservations

Dear Vidyut

1) Reservation today is the biggest discriminator, in INDIA (as distinguished from "Bharat").

2) Let us look at the HAVOC which reservation is wreaking in society by analysing this in-line graphic of the IIT JEE Main cut-off scores released 4 hours ago.

A General category student has to have a 90+ percentile (ie. to be in the top 10% of all candidates) to be able to sit for the qualify exam to get in an IIT, whereas an SC has to be in the top 45% and an ST to be in the top 55%.

But these percentiles are grossly misleading by virtue of BAYESian distributions as applied to this exam.

The lowest qualifying "General" candidate would need about 45 "nett correct" answers out of 90 to SIT for the next exam, whereas an SC or ST would qualify for ADMISSION to IIT even if they got 10 "nett wrong" answers out of  90.

ie. a "General" candidate needs to score of 200+ marks out of 360  to qualify but a reserved candidate could even qualify with a raw score of -10 (a negative score because there is negative marking) marks.

Ball is in your court.

Sarbajit Roy

On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 12:20 AM Vidyut <wide.aware@gmail.com> wrote:

I don't think removal of reservations before discrimination is resolved is a good idea.

Vidyut

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On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 9:25 AM Sarbajit Roy <indiaresists@lists.riseup.net> wrote:

If there is one thing which these 2019 elections expose, it is that no major political party has the resolve to publicly oppose caste, sex or religion based reservations and demand immediate scrapping of all reservations for employment, representation or admissions based on these criteria.