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by Brajeshwar 1454 days ago
These are standard test programs in India to get into various institutes.

JEE[1] is an engineering entrance assessment conducted for admission to various engineering colleges in India.

For students who want to study the general stream of physics, Chemistry, and Biology would go through the NEET[2]. This is for the Medical Colleges in India.

For everything else -- colleges, undergraduate, graduate, and other courses after 12th, students will go through the CUET[3]. This is the latest introduction to circumventing colleges and universities doing the test on their own.

I should add why these tests are crucial to students and parents alike in India. These decide the fate of most students and their careers.

I have a friend who collected and organized the questions for just JEE, and that's it. He charges a very minimal fee, and he is a Crore-ian (roughly $1M = ₹8 Crore) and leads a happy lifestyle. I'm no longer in regular touch with him and have no idea if he grew big or moved on or is sipping Mai Tai in Tahiti.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Entrance_Examination

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Eligibility_cum_Entra...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_University_Entrance_Tes...

1 comments

Yup. In India, all of these are extremely huge deals. We wanted to put up some content on the store and being a team that did well on these exams we thought the easiest way to get some original content up was to use our own notes.