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.

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Anil Kumble retires : but why?

He could have well been the bowler that he was without being the captain.
I think his career has been shortened because of the captaincy, i.e.
it would have been difficult for him stepping down from the captaincy
and playing like a normal player.

His overall performance isn't too bad if you look at the past few matches.
In 2008, he took 28 wickets in 10 tests. One of the matches against Sri Lanka
had only one innings. So he took 28 out of 190 available wickets.
Which is around 14% of the total possible wickets. It would be even higher
if we consider total number of wickets fallen. So if a bowler is taking around
18-20% of total wickets fallen, and that too when he is not at his peak, what's
wrong?

Kumble is clearly a victim of the unnecessary pressure that has been built
on the senior players by the BCCI-Media nexus. May be Dhoni is a better
captain, but why lose a bowler and one of the best tailend batsmen, for that?