Why a Language Exam Should be Included With Entrance Exams For Graduation

It was a Friday evening, the more relaxed time of the week after attending tons of meetings and clearing up the huge backlog, I happened to start a conversation with one of my colleagues on the most popular news of the day—the topper of this year’s IIT entrance exam has scored full marks i.e. 360/360. The debate we started had little to do with the news but had us to discuss about a critical issue. My colleague graduated from one of the top colleges in India i.e. IIT Bombay, known for producing the best engineers throughout its history. He said that sometimes people fail to complete their graduations in the stipulated time i.e. 4 years in India; there have been many suicides in good colleges.  One of reasons he put for this was students having done their schoolings in any language other than English sometimes don't cope up with the academic pressure without it, that make them fail or sometime lead them to quit their lives. One of the solutions for the same he put forth was to teach students the language in the first six months of their graduation in order to have them get started in the language that has never been vernacular for them.

I appreciated his recommendation but I would like to have this recommendation being applied in a slightly different way. These students not having the command over the language used for academic and business must be trained before but not after getting into IIT because this is not the time to learn the basics but to learn more skills on top of it i.e. presentation skill, communication skill etc.  I wonder why we can’t have some exams like TOEFL with the entrance exams so that students start preparing for the same and get command over the language by the time they get into a college.

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