IIT-JEE vs. CAT

If there is one thing that the IIT professors and a big chunk of IIT students
love to hate, it is JEE coaching centers. For a multitude of reasons, which
are discussed every other day in the mainstream media.

I find it rather surprising why doesn't CAT coaching centers
draw the same amount of flak from IIM professors and students?
Why do the IIM deans not give interviews like their IIT counterparts
to the national dailies, preaching why should JEE be abolished?

I guess there are two main reasons.
Firstly, pattern of CAT is very much similar to GMAT. And no
one has got the guts to criticize GMAT, so they can't bad mouth
CAT as well, since the "best" universities in the world accept
GMAT scores. JEE does not have this luxury.

Secondly, the amount of syllabus covered by most of the JEE
coaching centers, renders the first year Physics,Chemistry,Maths
courses of IITs largely redundant. Which results in most
of the students not paying any attention in the classroom, which
further frustrates the faculty, which will in turn bad mouth JEE
coaching centers.

In my personal experience, I have found a lot of highly energetic,
bright and talented individuals involved in JEE coaching, who are
also the first rate teachers. So, it is often hurtful to read the
bad publicity given to the JEE coaching centers in general.