Unacademy CEO Gaurav Munjal responds to a statement by a Mumbai doctor that called IIT-JEE, and NEET exams useless

There was a statement out by a Mumbai doctor who said “Hard to believe that munjal didn’t know how useless high-stake standardised exams like NEET and JEE are”. Unacademy CEO Gaurav Munjal chose platform X to share his views on that statement and gave a response himself “Next time you go to a hospital/please ask for a doctor who got admission through management quota and not NEET“. These exams are merit-based and probably the best products that India has created. I know so many people whose lives changed because they cleared these examinations. This was the tweet my Gaurav Munjal as a response to the doctor from Mumbai.

He also said that we must take pride that these exams still exist, they bring fairness and sanity to an otherwise broken system as, now 50%-60% of admissions in Ivy League Universities in the US are legacy admissions or through donations.

Again that doctor from Mumbai replied to Munjal’s tweet -“That’s because you read only success stories! what about the millions of students who spend years cramming for the exam and then fail to get in? what a waste of human capital? The opportunity cost they pay? The exams are a sham because they are designed to favour the rich.”

This post was shared on March 22, 2024 by Munjal. Some individuals also replied and reacted to that post on X like:
An individual replied that “I don’t think it is necessary to ask if the doctor got admission through management quota and merit quota. Reservation exists in the admission process even until the post-graduation level, merit only is not sufficient here. The doctor who took the management seat may have better rank than the reservation candidate”.
Another individual replied to the above comment by saying “No two people giving these exams are fundamentally similar or are tutored under the same conditions. So, it is structurally unfair, tests a massive curriculum and in no way improves individual abilities.”
A third person replied to Gaurav Munjal that “there’s no need to discuss and reply in his comments Gaurav Munjal, he is just the wait of time. Edtech is huge.”