This example from Thomas Sowell refers to affirmative action in the US rather than in India, but seems relevant https://www.pe.com/2015/12/17/thomas-sowell-mism

This example from Thomas Sowell refers to affirmative action in the US rather than in India, but seems relevant https://www.pe.com/2015/12/17/thomas-sowell-mismatching-students-with-schools-does-them-no-favor/ https://www.pe.com/2015/12/17/thomas-sowell-mismatching-stud... >I became painfully aware of this problem more than 40 years ago, when I was teaching at Cornell University and discovered that half the black students there were on some form of academic probation. >These students were not stupid or uneducable. On the contrary, the average black student at Cornell at that time scored at the 75th percentile on scholastic tests. Their academic qualifications were better than those of three-quarters of all American students who took those tests. >The average white student would have been wiped out at Cornell. But the average white student was unlikely to be admitted to Cornell, in the first place. Nor was a white student who scored at the 75th percentile. >That was a “favor” reserved for black students. This favor turned black students who would have been successful at most American colleges and universities into failures at Cornell. >None of this was peculiar to Cornell. Black students who scored at the 90th percentile in math had serious academic problems trying to keep up at M.I.T., where other students scored somewhere within the top 99th percentile. >There were other fine engineering schools around the country where those same students could have learned more, when taught at a normal pace, rather than at a breakneck speed geared to students with extremely rare abilities in math.