Today, competitiveness of education is getting harder in global scale, and each country has a better subject compared to others. In India, they found the concept of 'zero' first, and have many prestigious mathematician. Yes,mathematics is the strongest subject prominently.
According to the article, 230,000 students take the notoriously difficult exam for a spot in one of the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology, but only 5,000 pass. 30 of them came from one particular cram school and it's a pass rate of 100%.
For more thing, students passed the exam are all from poor home. So they feel painfully the importance of having weapon named wisdom.
Rahul, the son of a print worker and a successful Super 30 alumnus, said 'People who never acknowledged us before started smiling and nodding at us'. This means, I think, they are recognized as beneficial citizens for India. He also gave us an ironic expression: Education is our only weapon to rid ourselves of poverty and social exploitation.
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