Coaching Industry in India

Coaching industry has become one of the top business destinations for most of the people. Spreading like a virus, today, students can’t even think without coaching classes. It has become a ritual to join a coaching class in every grade or standard as if spending some extra money would fill their brains with some extra knowledge. Students cannot even imagine their life without coaching classes particularly in board standards like 5th, 8th, 10th and 12th (depends on which city you live in India) and during exams.

Coaching classes is one of the business kinds where teachers don’t need a money investment except for the initial setup, and they can continue earning as long as they can spare some time to teach. On the contrary, the more experience you earn as a teacher, the more number of students you attract, and hence more money you earn. 

Some Negative Impacts

1. Dependency on others to make you read and pass in the exams. This increases pressure and anxiety during exams.
2. Wastage of money which could well be invested in buying your child some extra books or games or whatever he likes.
3. Development of habit of thinking only when somebody tells you too
4. Wastage of time, which could be saved from already hectic schedules of today’s generation students
5. Development of shyness and nervousness in children for not asking enough questions in the class for they have an extra support of coaching classes.
6. Increased workload on students without having sufficient time for physical exercise and development
7. Less self confidence in children and motivation to take challenges.
8. Creating a wrong culture of parallel education society for riches ultimately hampers National Growth.
9. Rusting of brain for not letting it think and everything being explained by teachers everywhere
10. Indirect effect on the integrity of Teachers when they start getting good amount from coaching resulting in less attention to school/college

Some Positives

1. A reiteration of the school syllabus, although sometimes in a different style essentially makes a good revision exercise.
2. More exposure for children to get their problems solved by various teachers
3. For competitive examinations like IIT JEE, AIEEE, CAT, AIPMT, and CA, coaching classes really help students reach their goals by providing smart and correct guidance
4. More teacher to student ratio helps in good attention to individual students

Most of the coaching classes provide extra coaching during examinations and they call it crash courses, or refreshers. This is like boosting your blog traffic for a temporary span by writing a post on a current event which is flooding Google trends. They make a lot of money with refreshers and crash courses than they normally do with regular coaching.