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An uphill task called examination

Cracking an entrance examination for the Indian Institute of Technology has always been an uphill task. The kind of pressure – both from parents and teachers – the students have to put up with, the amount of hard work needed and the huge burden of expectations they have to live up to are some of the things that everyone who has appeared for an IIT entrance paper would know.

A bunch of young people who have studied at some of the top institutions of the country have captured this pre-entrance experience of students through a new play, Padai, Masti aur Woh.

The play has been conceptualised by the alumni of Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, and Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi.

More : hindu.com

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Sci/Tech : Vehicular movement hit over protests on proposed IIT

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Another IIT-K student ends life

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