The guidelines were prepared as a response to issues related to the private coaching centers more so in the context of rising student suicide cases, fire incidents, lack of facilities as well as methodologies of teaching have been engaging the attention of the Government from time to time.
The controversy is guidelines state that coaching centers shall not enroll students below 16 years of age or that student enrolment should be only after the secondary school examination. Most of the students are enrolled in class to prepare for competitive exams after XII.
Till the 90s, Kota was struggling as an industrial city and the final nail on the coffin came with the closing of various units of JK Synthetics in 1997 due to financial problems. Vinod Kumar (VK) Bansal, a mechanical engineer employed with JK Synthetics had already started looking for an alternative career and began tutoring class 7 students in 1981 and gradually started taking in class 10 & 12 students as well. He tasted success in 1985 when his first student “cracked” the IIT-JEE (no known as JEE Advanced) getting admission into one of the hallowed Indian Institutes of Technology. This is how “Bansal Classes” came into being in 1991. There are more than 150 coaching institutes in the town that are vying for the best students. Most of them are among the best coaching institutes in India that admit students only after they clear an entrance exam! Imagine the irony – you’ve got to clear an entrance exam to join a course that again prepares you to clear another entrance exam!
Koreans consider the Suneung exam as the first step (and also almost final) for an individual to step into the labor market. Exam results not only determine which university you will go to, but also determine career and friends for your future life. Most of the teachers here think that if the Korean students fail the Suneung exam, they'll fail the rest of their life. In Korea, passing a university will be a ticket to help you have the opportunity to work in big companies. Therefore, most Koreans believe that if you pass this exam, your future will be really bright. To reach that "bright future", Koreans also have to practice hard throughout their school life, especially high school students. They have to get up early in the morning to go to school, spending about 10 hours there. When they leave school, they all go to tutoring classes and exam centers until 10pm and 11pm. Then they come back home and self-study until 1 or 2 am. On average, Korean high school students study for about 16 hours in one day to prepare for the Suneung exam.
Especially Koreans have a strict concept about sleeping hours:
Sleep 3 hours, you have a chance to enter SKY schools (top 3 universities in Korea: Seoul National University, Korea University and Yonsei University)
Sleep 4 hours, you can get into other universities,
Sleep 5 hours, don't dream of going to college.
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