There are no standardized “exit exams” for Indian universities, unless one is talking about those colleges affiliated to a specific university system (but those

There are no standardized “exit exams” for Indian universities, unless one is talking about those colleges affiliated to a specific university system (but those are not referred to as “elite” institutions in common parlance; just terminology, I’m not making value judgements). Many states in India have a 10+2 education system where the “+2” (last two years of high school) are referred to as “junior college”. And admission to “elite” institutions is through specialty purpose entrance exams which are typically considered to be much harder than high school / junior college exit exams. Evaluation in the latter can also be a crapshoot, so scored in the high school / junior college exit exams might not have a very strong correlation with scores in the university entrance exams. I don’t understand what’s actually being analyzed or commented on (both the Economist article and the source journal article are paywalled for me)