# We Ranked Top Indian Entrance Exams for 2024

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- **Канал:** Varun Mayya
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- **Дата:** 03.09.2024
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## Описание

This Video is Sponsored By Google Play. Welcome to the final episode of our Google Play's Startup Spotlights series! In this episode, we sit down with Akshay Akash, the 23-year-old co-founder of Stimuler, an innovative app transforming English upskilling for millions worldwide. Akshay brings a unique perspective, having recently tackled India’s toughest entrance exams and now leading a successful startup.
We explore the landscape of entrance exams like IIT JEE, UPSC, CLAT, and NID, ranking them based on difficulty and career potential in 2024. Akshay shares his personal journey and actionable tips for students navigating these paths. He also discusses how Stimuler has grown to over 2 million users across 200+ countries, helping students and professionals prepare for exams like IELTS with personalised feedback.
In this episode, we delve into the evolving education landscape, AI’s impact on learning, and monetization strategies in edtech. Akshay also highlights the critical role of Google Play in Stimuler’s growth, including winning the Google Play Best AI App award.
Whether you're a student, entrepreneur, or just curious about the future of education, this episode is packed with insights and inspiration. Join us as we wrap up the series with Akshay’s incredible story and valuable advice.

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0:00 - Introduction
0:41 - Highlights
3:17 - Exam #1
5:45 - Exam #2
10:28 - Exam #3
14:10 - Exam #4
17:51 - Exam #5
24:21 - Exam #6
28:27 - Exam #7
30:57 - Exam #8
35:15 - Exam #9
38:06 - Exam #10
40:09 - Final thoughts on entrance exams
41:14 - Discussion about Stimula app and its future plans
43:01 - Conclusion

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## Содержание

### [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkKPqmCYEws) Introduction

from a perspective I think I is already very highly rated in India but if it's stated 9 by 10 I don't think it's stated with the right reasons if I do upsc what kind of jobs can I expect how much money do they make so you get probably like over a lck in just basic salary but there are ton of bugs my personal belief is that if you don't get into a top college outside India for MBA you should not go there even if you go from a top college perspective I would highly recommend to probably come back to India I feel like being at the top really matters because a pure Network in the MBs is more important than what you're being taught because honestly is not as important as you being in the same classroom as some other really brilliant G like how did you actually get to global scale what's the secret for you as an app to get to 2 million people so quickly ladies and gentlemen welcome

### [0:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkKPqmCYEws&t=41s) Highlights

back to another episode of the tier list today we're going to rank something that I know is very special to many of you which is which entrance exam should I go give what is the scope in 2024 how much money can I make what's the competition you know what we're going to do on this show uh you know all the fun stuff that's coming you have to stay till the end of the video and look I'm not really an expert at entrance exams I know some of them uh I've given some of them maybe 10 years ago but what I wanted is I wanted to get somebody who is successful but also has given these entrance exams recently right as recent as a year or two years ago so that he has the most context about this space so today I have aay with me from stimula aay you have both you have given entrance exams very recently you're still young and at the same time you run a very successful company which actually does English upskilling right which allows people to have a conversation with an English AI assistant and many of the users of your app have actually are actually using it to go give ISS and stuff like that so you have so much understanding of the space now both as an entrepreneur and two years ago as uh you know uh an individual going and giving these exams before we begin before we start rating I would love to know your story like a very quick a bridged version and then we'll get started perfect so very excited to do this because I was in this boat a couple of years back but yeah I air I'm 23 I graduated out of ibhu doing engineering last year and in college I was mostly doing a bunch of things debating and stuff and in my third year I started a company which Von briefly talked about so stimula allows you to get better at English conversational skills we want to build a global consumer Tech brand from India have over 2 million users from 200 plus countries so happy to talk more about it but really excited to do this the way I'm going to approach this particularly is if someone if a sibling of mine in class 12th or a third or fourth year of engineering ask me which exam should I give what is the pros and cons of this exam the advice I will try to give them is have in this so of course some of these exams are pretty controversial so super excited to do this so you have 2 million users on your app right what do people do on your app primar they come in they have this AI ofar called Sara so you can talk with Sara on different themes like Hobbies families you can talk about scenarios for example negotiating a salary with your manager or for example giving an interview so you can talk the best part is feedback so you get analyzed on every single thing about your speech so from your s ands to pauses to fluency to pronunciation every single thing and you get told what to do better so it's an objective way of improving your conversational skills lovely okay so now that we have context let's go through the entrance exams I can already see

### [3:17](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkKPqmCYEws&t=197s) Exam #1

what the first one is so let's just begin with that it is the iitj 2024 where would you rank this okay so I have an obvious bias in here I have given this exam I've spent two years of so super high grinding in Kota for preparing for itg you went to Kota yes I went to Kota for this so you are a product of the Kota Factory unfortunately so basically uh I would still rank at in s now there's a reason for that so from a perspective I think IAT is already very highly rated in India I don't need to speak much about it but if it's stated 9 by 10 I don't think it's stated to the right reasons yeah so people dat i because of placements I think the much bigger part or better part of being in an i is just the peer group you get in right I'm going to give you two examples because in my first year I started getting an interest in debating I try to do it at a better level now I had a club in it I had a teammate in it and by the third year I was doing debating at the World Championships that's the scale you can get into any single activity in iot second part I wanted to start a startup by the time I graduated out of my college I already had three co-founders i' had already raised a ton of money and you already know those co-founders are smart yeah I know that they are smart they are different interests they have similar motivations so you know all of those things you're able to get those people and that's the best part about being an IT the reason I put in as though is not just because of that because even if you don't get into an it I think the tech world has leveled so much that even if you are in a probably an nit or a bitset or a different College you still have opportuni to get into Tech and your engineering degree would be valuable plus you can do other things also so you're saying giving the J allows you to get into some of those secondary colleges yes so you can get into nits for example through J and all of these calls are still helpful in terms that you can go definitely further into Tech but more importantly you have your option open so much of the people who would be watching this video for example would have zero clue of what probably they should go about and if that's the case I always recommend go for IJ because you would get at least options with that so that's the number one thing the only caveat here I would add is that if you do have a strong interest in something else please don't get like persu into iatg I know a couple of friends who were great at social sciences for example but they still wasted two years of their life in preparing for J and until they realize this 2 years we gone which is the most important period in a education life so I think that's the only caveat but if you don't have a clue or if you are inclined even slightly towards engineering or Tech go for IJ lovely so that's the iitj that's the default we had to start with that next let us

### [5:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkKPqmCYEws&t=345s) Exam #2

do upsc okay so my mom is not going to be happy about ranking it lower but I'll give it to you should rank it first yeah so I would probably rank it at a B okay so I'll will tell you the reason behind it so I think the important thing to note here is that the ranking would be very different for two different use cases right so someone in class 9th or 10th or 11th or 12th who is thinking about upsc very seriously I would still probably rank it at an a form them perspect their perspective because you can probably choose Humanities you can choose things which favor I upsc syllabus for that matter and you can spend your four years through that but if you are someone who has graduated from an engineering College if you are in a tech job or if you are looking for something like that and then you are considering okay societal pressure is high for example I from biad right if you're from a bihad or up or reasons where UPS is very highly respected and you think that okay I should leave my tech job and probably go for a upsc I would strongly advise against it Prim for two reasons again it's a very very difficult thing to crack I think that there are lots of people appearing in it you would literally have probably 100 great seats probably thousand seats to begin with and that's a very low percentage so that's one and you'll be competing with those people who show made that decision in class 9 or 10 perspective so that's the one thing to consider right the second thing is that what happens is that people don't give up on upsc once they have chosen it so a lot of people when they start preparing for upsc they probably do it for one year but then they think that okay I probably missed it by 5 10 marks let me give it another chance so if you see the average number of times a person takes a upsc examination that's often three or four and that means that suddenly you were you see resumes and I see that a lot when we hiring you see resumes where the person excellent Tech graph the person was doing something probably great in Tech Samsung any other company right they were doing some tech job for 2 years then they took a four-year break through to upsc when they realized it didn't work out for them then they return back suddenly there's a huge gap right between you and your peers plus you have probably missed out on Tech so say someone take the example of someone who was probably in a tech company in 2019 certainly they took a break for upsa they realized that okay I'm probably five marks s let's try it again and again the thing about UPS say is that you are never too far but in order to really make it in it's a long effort right and for example in I if you don't get into IAT you still get into an nit a triple it that didn't happen in from an upsc perspective if you don't get into upsc the second option which is probably like an SS for example there there's a huge gap in between and your mind somehow doesn't let you go for that and because say you have from I you are from a good engineering college so now that you have come back in 2024 in Tech you realize that is where I want to be you suddenly so behind your peers you have missed one or two waves and waves play a lot of so you know nothing about AI if you took a Gap a for example and today if a resume has nothing about AI honestly because most of the roles have some component of it especially in cool companies or you know like the new a companies so now you are just much behind your peers and I see these resumes every day so if you are someone who is in Tech right now or who and specifically in AI right if you have anything which do with AI chances are that in the next four to five years it will be better or bigger so I would recommend you to leave it all and go for upsc which is something which is much lesser chance the only say scenario in which I will still recommend you to go for upsc is that if you are comfortable that okay I have to go in a government job if I don't clear upsc I will go for State Public Service Commission if I don't clear that I will go for an SS still go for a banking and you are very comfortable with that drop if you are in that scenario go for it otherwise don't know if I do upsc what kind of jobs can I expect at the end of it so the jobs are pretty good you get into a public service job which is basically very highly respected so for example I can tell you that in my family uh an entrepreneur would be respected much less than a public service person for that matter and this is true for the entire Strat of society right so specifically in probably like non-metros how much money do they make so it's pretty cool right so you get probably like over a lck in just basic salary but there are ton of bus okay so you have a ton of bus then you have bonuses for projects like a government given house car people to work with you your phone bills your electricity bills there are a lot of things which add up to and like you said the respect is a huge factor I think that's the biggest factor for being in a public service job not just from respect from your parents but respect from your society and if that matters really big for you I think I can understand why you are considering upsc but yeah if you are considering that be prepared that you might not get in and then you should have a b plan in government job and go only if you have that b plan okay so next we have the

### [10:28](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkKPqmCYEws&t=628s) Exam #3

clat the clat what does the clat do so this is an exam you need to clear if you want to go get into a legal field okay common law admission test yes and this is not too popular so if I say like probably less than a lck people give it okay and you have to give it in class 12th by the way so this competes directly with the likes of an i z or a neat and that's the reason I know it's like I'm not too like sure about between s and a but I will for now I will place it on S the reason I'm placing this is here that and I'm again thinking from a perspective of person who has still not made a decision if you have interest in public speaking if you believe that you can articulate yourself work hard because legal profession actually requires you to work really hard if you can believe those things then clad is a great option for you because what clad does is you only competing with probably 60,000 people not too many people know about it and it's at the end of the day it's all a supply demand thing right the world the India needs lawyers there are so many cases pending every single company has corporate lawyers we work with a ton of lawyers ourselves so India needs lawyers right but at the same time and there are colleges for it also for example there are nlus and there are some very like decent nlus nlu is a national law University and they are just like iats there are classes of nlus for example there are top nlus for example your say nsar Hyderabad or there are probably not newer nus for the example right but there are still 2K to 2. 5k good seats in clad and the difference is that for 2K or 5K good seats in IJ you competing with 20 lakh people and all of those people have been told so much about iatc that they care about that exam competition the competition is there people care about that exam people probably being quota for that I Was preparing qu with five lakh people right for cl that competition didn't exist to that degree right so you can if you have an interest and the only caveat here is that you sort have an interest in things which a lawyer does right of course you might not know about lawyer that stays that's completely fine but you should be able to understand about okay I am good at articulating things probably discussions I am probably good at say for example you have your moods in college or you have mu or you have all those things if you have signals that you are good at want to be in a role where probably the respect is little bit higher side you have longer working hours if those things are fine with you I would recommend you to go for cl how much do lawyers make a lot so you can start with probably say like a 10 to 12 LS job but on a higher level a top lawyer will make much more because lot of these lawyers how much is much more probably like a CR more than that because you have usually have so the best lawyers are independent right and they have the best clients and they have multiple clients so it's entrepreneurial in nature in a way and the best lawers like ultimately they do go on an entrepreneur nature even from a particular smaller client you probably charge two Ls a month and then you just can just imagine that and you don't need a that big of a team you can probably be two or three full-time People Partners and stuff so from a that perspective from a career scope perspective pay perspective I think clat is a good exam to give from a 12th class perspective got it not many people know about clad because it's not sexy but there still seems to be both respect both some of the respect of upsc some of the money of the Jes yeah and there's a little bit of diversity here also right so you can be a say public lawyer which is a very different trajectory you can be a corporate lawyer again we a different trajectory and after clearing clat you can in fact like probably give a couple of exams and become a judge which is a completely different trajectory a different set of respect different set of pay so you do have decent diversity in here also compared to something very specific sort of okay so next we have the neat exam

### [14:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkKPqmCYEws&t=850s) Exam #4

okay yeah so this was the choice I had to make in class 10 so I have like some opinion about it I think I would rank it at a B okay I will go a I will tell you why I switched from B to a so the problem with neat is it is very competitive right so it's same competitive as an IJ but I you can probably like do nothing in your college life and then still have an option to revive your career later on yeah me is different right lot of the Top Doctors you see in India for example they had excellent colis Ras the second thing with about neat is it's a long journey so I will tell you like about a cousin of mine who is studying in as Patna he's one of the most the brightest kids I know he went into college alongside me right at this point of time he's probably still 3 to 4 years away from practicing being a medic right but I am already in a workplace lot of people at this point of time people spend at least like 8 to 10 years so because in need you have to do an Uzi right you're undergraduate okay but undergraduate is never enough so you have to do a PG and then even after PG if you want to be someone who is like probably well sought after you would probably do a specialization after your pz so it's a long journey and it's a very tough Journey so I know like personally know that these people usually don't have any sort of Freedom at all you have very tough schedules especially even in your pz that's even tougher because you have to treat actual patients so it's not just tougher in terms of say for example I can say that I work 12 hours a day and they also but my 12 hours a day works involves working on the computer right I can take a walk around and still work on a mobile phone there are 12 hours of the day involves acting a very serious Stone because you are working on actual patients you dealing with life you are dealing with like for example diseases and all so in that term s is a very stressful job and so it's a high stress thing now the reason I will still put it on a is I personally know a lot of people who derive great pleasure in it because they essentially feel that they want to help most people so out of all the things we have addressed you know like some people might say that upsc is the best way to help most people but I personally feel that neat is that because you actually become a doctor you can save lives and like there's a lot of correlation between that so I think like in that terms I personally know of a lot of people who feel that neat is just they're just too passionate about it uh they want to help more people and they're ready to put in extra efforts for it so from that perspective NE is good the also second thing is the pay is great so if you are able to go through this you know like line of fire or whatever you can call it so if you're able to go through this 10 years or 8 to 10 years there a very successful career awaiting at the end of it will be stressful but in terms of pure you know PESA and you if you're comparing from that perspective there's a lot of money in this okay how much money would the top doctors make so the top doctor will made in multiple cor and that's like much bigger than probably like a top engineer not in an entrepreneur set I think that's a very different thing yeah but like in even in top as similar to entrepreneur entrepreneurship is okay like in the sense you could be a doctor and then start your own Hospital in which case you'll make even more right yeah that's what I say similar to how you have in clat where you are if you're a top lawyer you will start your own Independent Business if you're to doctor and then the upside is infinite so if you think from that perspective need does have a lot of respect at the end of it and money at the end of it the only problem is it's much yeah it's much difficult than I a to go through so if you're ready for that grind and I think the country needs more doctors so from that perspective need is a good choice got it so next let's go after I think

### [17:51](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkKPqmCYEws&t=1071s) Exam #5

the this should be special to you right like the ISS I feel like um uh one of the things you were telling me before we got online before we started doing this was that you said a lot of the people that use your app stimul are actually training for the ISS right so you know a lot about this entrance exam uh tell us where you rank it and what you know about it so I think like other than having a lot of people use stimler to prepare for it I have given this exam myself so I have some perspective from that and the problem with ranking it with these exams is that is a need to exam so you don't uh you don't like aspire to be an is ranker in your class 10 right there's no aspiration associated with that you Aspire with probably studying abroad and this is the key to that right so for example specifically with is so it stands for uh International English language testing system and it's basically mandatory in lot of colleges you want to study in specifically in UK I think this is much more mandatory we would probably have toile which is much more mandatory in us so in ISS uh specifically you only need to do it if you want to go abroad the good thing about ISS though compared to say for example something like a gr or GMAT is that it's easy and what is what I mean that it's easy from a perspective right so it won't require you to prepare for 6 months or 2 years or one year you can probably prepare it in 1 month or 2 month the thing is that it depends a lot on how your English level has been throughout your career because uh say for example a lot of exams have English so for example if you want to get to an MBA you have to clear cat right and cat has an English section yeah the difference between English section of a cat and an ilts is that you don't just have to probably remember vocabulary you just don't have to probably know a lot of words or be able to understand passages yeah but you actually have to speak right and the one of the sections in is so I has four sections so you have reading listening speaking and writing yeah right so in the speaking section you actually have a conversation so there's a onetoone interviewer or a person sitting in front of you often from a native country and you need to have a 15 minutes conversation with them so and that conversation is often impromptu right so you are not given a script to speak you are basically asked questions on the go about yourself about random topics in the world about some experience of yours and you have to give a very structured answer you have to do be fluent pronunciation and stuff so from that perspective it might be difficult for someone who is not from a English native background because you know like knowing the language in terms of knowing words or being able to understand English I feel that's really different from being able to have a conversation in that language that's one of the reasons why we started stimul also right so the reason a lot of people use stimula for ILS is because you are able to have this environment inside the app right where you are in front of an interviewer or an AI who is acting like an interviewer who is which is very uh like similar as of now today so you have this interviewer you are sitting with them you have 15 minutes exact conversation and they can act on the go just like a normal inter word does and it can then rank you on the same metrics ilts exam ranks you on so while the listening and reading section are easier to prepare because you often have material available for it the speaking section is one where non-native English speakers find the most difficulty in and this is where stimul helps them into we also help them in writing which is more about being able to sort of uh put your thoughts down be able to structure it and stuff so that is also what we help in but primarily our goal is to help people in I speaking and that is where people use it for today so this is one of the biggest use cases people use and you also said I helps you attack like as stimula like a global market yes right you're able to go after everybody else like how did you actually get to global scale what's the secret for you as an app to get to 2 million people so quickly so I think there a lot of factors came into play uh there's a lot of luck involved strategy involved so from beginning because my background was in debating right so I was able to do a lot of global debating across 15 different countries so I knew that the global landscape in conversation skills or the aspiration to be speak English I that's similar across country side that is something we really knew about and then also there's a because we starting in college there's an ambition Factor you want to be the first company to do this and for us that was that we wanted to be the first company which has probably 100 million users and less than 20 million is from India right that is the consumer Tech out of India brand we wanted to build now a few things happened first due to our debating Network and other network I reached out to a person on Twitter which is from Indonesia I asked her to review the app she Ed about writing that about a thread about app right and what happened was it caught a viral wave so stimula has a feature where you probably do a conversation and then you get feedback which is the first time an app does that right because you could be graded on your grammar and vocabulary before also but the ability to Jud probably your pronunciation or your fluency that's something which has been Possible only the last couple of years right so we are able to give you that and that scoring part simply got a viral wave in Indonesia and the thing about ilts is that it's a doorway to go abroad right and this doorway while this is very prevalent in India it's not limited to India so for example someone sitting in a Colombia or for example a Peru they also want to go abroad for example someone sitting in Indonesia they also want to study abroad right there still one test it's still one test and they all give this so for example I think globally probably 6 to 7 million people give ilts each year and lot of these people are outside India I remember someone from the team telling me that they've read about you in the newspaper that's our the first interaction with you right like that was also part of you going viral in a way yeah uh so that was majorly because of Google Play honestly so uh we have been a Google Play partner for a long time I think Google Play was the reason we got this much viral also because once we had this Indonesia vity and due to ilt as some Global audience Bas and over the next five six months the App Store optimization which is your app version of SEO for example that got us a lot of downloads from all over the world so we were able to see which countries the app really resonates with and we able to build with that then we were a part of app scale Academy where they taught us how best app scale what is app scale Academy so it's an academy for 100 most promising app based startups out of India this is by Google Play and then they are able to help you with scaling help you with design help you with security so they gave each of the startups of security report and all and then in December last year we also won Google Play's best AI app of 2023 next Let's Take on the cat

### [24:21](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkKPqmCYEws&t=1461s) Exam #6

let's see if where you'll Bell the Cat okay so I will place it at a okay so now again this is very relevant for people who are already in a undergrad degree right so they are in an undergrad degree and they are deciding if they want to go for business or not the good thing about cat is it's a lowrisk high reward thing I will explain you how because most of the people give cat in their fourth year of college okay or they give it after 2 years in workplace right I will cover the first part because I gave cat in that period right I was just giving it for fun but I give cat in that period the one good thing about cat is that the syllabus is very similar to the placement test you will give so if you're an engineering student who is not preparing for coding jobs much of your placement test would involve logical reasoning English Quant and all those things and this is exactly what a syllabus of a cat is Cat exam is so you don't need to put in extra efforts for that of course you need to prepare if you really want to get into an IM a BC for example or the top imag colleges in India you need to put in effort but that effort is not too difficult for you if you're an engineering GR now the situation of cat changes completely if you're non-engineering grad because the English so cat is four sections right Quant English lrdi so three sections sorry Quant English and lrdi right out of that Quant is very easy for engineering students because the Quant level is not too high what is Quant for the audience Quant is basically your mathematics basic arithmetics and stuff like that so that is more of a class 10 to class 12 level which is easier for an engineering student but if you go beyond engineering for those people Quant is very tough because that's not something they have been studying for the last like an economics student would not have yes so for them English is the easier part Quant is a difficult part from a switch the sites and for them English is the tougher part and English takes less time to prepare than a Quant for example so that sense then you need to prepare for two three months for cat the upside is that cat is accepted in a lot of colleges in India so if you want to get into business you feel that your engineering is not from a top degree and you feel that you can't get into opportunities so right now in the last two three years I think a lot of opportunities are opening up in business at the undergraduate level also so for example product management or for example marketing rules also though that's very limited but if you feel that you're not getting those opportunities in the fourth year you can apply for cat probably alongside your placements and stuff and then the whole management World opens up for you and getting into an IM for example is lifechanger for now because if you get into an IM for example and a top I am at that the chances increase a lot and the competition is not that high compared to the competition at an undergrad level for what kind of money can these people make if you do well at a cat and get into the best I am so I think I am ahmedabad's average package was somewhere on 30 25 to 30 L yes and I think that was a year back so I'm not sure how that has grown or evolved over the time but I think this is also increasing a lot right because these are mostly gists and I think like you might probably agree with that in AI World specifically journalists can do a lot of things so a lot of these people start their companies so if you see I think like there was this stat that probably I don't know 80% of Indian unicorns are from IM am fers so I am not sure about that number but I think that is a interesting so it's a good path eventually to become a Founder but my own opinion of MB is if you're going to the top one's great but if you by mistake getting into a like a second tier or a third tier MBA like it actually makes your life harder and I'll make a separate video about that but uh I feel like being at the top really matters because a pure Network in the mbas is more important than what you're being taught because honestly is not as important as you being in the same classroom as some other really brilliant generalist I think that's true for a lot of these things right even from an iot perspective I think what we were taught is only important if you're going in a code engineering field even from a CSC perspective that I UNC count in CAD also the management relations while they are important for example if you want to go into traditional management for example in HL or that field but if you want to go to Tech or if you want to start a company I think the pr group is much more important so agree with you in that got it next let's go to the

### [28:27](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkKPqmCYEws&t=1707s) Exam #7

gate so gate in India I will put it at B okay so again the bias here is that gate is great for people who probably are interested in the core field so if you're a mechanical undergrad so gate basically is given by people in college or just outside right and if you are someone who is interested in mechanical engineering for example you can give gate and get into a mechanical Masters and then that mtech is useful because you're M because you are getting understanding in that degree right as I told that if you are studying in an i if you are in a core degree you can still learn something so you can learn more in mtech and you can be more valuable to the industry yeah the second thing is lot of people give gate for okay maybe I can do an mtech in csse or I'm taking it so I can tell you from my personal experience I was also a part of placement cell of IBU while I was in college right I can tell you from my personal experience that doesn't happen so if a company is hiding from a tech perspective they don't give that much extra value to an mtech compared to a btech so if someone did A B Tech from a similar College went to any tech company spent a couple of years working on their skills or projects or stuff they probably valued more than that the person who chose an mtech after that interesting and that is something I have seen in terms of hiring that placements again it might be a sample bias because of like probably in an iph perspective or from other colleges perspective but I think that is true in what I have seen other colleges also the good part about cat gate for example is that you can also use it as a placement test I'll give an example of that so a lot of public sector companies in India PSU specifically they hire through gate right so for example if you want to get into a gale uh which is basically the gas Authority limit of India if you want into a gale for example you can give gate and you can get into that so for example you don't want to do an mtech right but you are still interested in a mean mechanical engineering job or an Electronics engineering job so again you because the gate syllabus is mostly based on your subject so gate for in CSC differs from gate for a mechanical engineer right so if you're going from a gate for a mechanical engineering perspective you can give that exam if you get a good rank you also get admission in mtex if you want but you can also use that rank to get into psus directly so if you want to use it as a placement test and because you have already studied that subject for four years then this is a good alternative for me okay so next I

### [30:57](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkKPqmCYEws&t=1857s) Exam #8

have two more in front of me but I think they're kind of similar the GMAT and the gr right I you have thoughts on GMAT versus gr so I will tell you the basic differentiation between that the differentiation is what colleges it unlocks for you okay so for example say you want to go into a foreign MBA right by the way like both of these exams are required to go into studying abroad again okay along with il so I is for English proficiency this is more for your aptitude Proficiency in that matter what is aptitude stand for the audience so aptitude is basically your ability to answer questions on the go your ability to think analytically so that is basically what they test and the difference between that is for example if GMAT is basically for MBA right so if you want an admission in a foreign MBA college you would have to clear GMAT okay now the caveat is some colleges have started accepting both gmad and G for MBA also but mostly it's for gmad the one extra benefit for GMAT is that you also can get admission in ISB which is the Indian School of Business which is one of the best MBA colleges alongside your top I Im so that is an extra benefit with GMAT unlocks for you so you might be wondering if someone doesn't want to go outside does they still have a probably a meaning for GMAT yes probably for ISP but other than that very similar exams so you have your English you have your uh math or Quant these are the two basic ideas English is slightly on the tougher side here compared to cat this is like not too big of a difference but if you're preparing for a GMAT or a g because the differentiation is that you have to probably prepare for say for example a lot of vocabulary this is for in GMAT and what is the difference between G why is gr easier so Z is not easier as such I'm saying that g is also very similar in syllabus the exam format is different so for example in fact G is slightly tougher than GMAT right because G has probably two essays in St of one in GMAT G probably has a slightly higher in English level compared to your GMAT so in that term Z is a slightly tougher exam but in terms of that I will probably place it both at an a only okay so let's just put both at a because it often like again it's a need to exam you probably will give it uh and where does the GRE get you like if I crack the GRE versus the GMAT what are the opportunities like so if you clear G it's often required for you doing a Masters of Science so Ms so if you want to do an MS in an foreign College I think G is a great exam for you and that's the basic difference between G and GMAT so the format is different the subjects are same and the difficulty level is slightly higher in GRE but yeah that's controversial by the way like one interesting thing which happened with GMAT is that the format has changed a bit so they are trying to prioritize Quant a little bit more so mathematical ability because if you think about it they're already able to judge your English proficiency by or a toy Fel because I also has a reading test or a listening test so they able to judge your vocabulary through that so they a they are slightly increasing the proficiency and I think the average scores will come down a bit due to that because a lot of people who give are not that good in math for example but from that perspective I think GMAT is slightly prioritizing Quant I'm not sure about what kind of jobs do you get after the GMAT and gr so depends a lot on so both are very different in that terms right because if you do a foreign MBA for example now foreign MBA the PE group is even better if you get from a top college right my personal belief is that if you don't get into a top college outside India for MBA you should not go there because I think like even if you go from a top college perspective I would highly recommend to probably come back to India I'm a big believer of the India growth story in that terms and I also think that if you don't if you get from a probably a tier three College it doesn't add value to your resume based on the amount it cost you and it costs a lot so in that term zma didn't add you a that of value what about this one uh gr is often really good because these are PE so even in my college the people who gave this are people who are doing research and great research at the top us colleges right what kind of research so this is either research in computational biology for example or you go very deep into one specific part of quantum physics for example so there are very specific things and the demand of these people are is crazy because you are experts right probably experts which specialized experts yes probably more specialization than an AI has so in that terms the demand of these people are increasing a lot got it we have two more

### [35:15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkKPqmCYEws&t=2115s) Exam #9

left there's nid okay which is uh design okay why do you think this flows unfortunately I'll put it at C okay finally we have a c okay I'm not from nid I was just crying for the nid people watching this uh so I think like design is a huge field uh like I think the demand of UI is a lot yeah the problem is that an ID has two things you can get into an ID for so N ID for probably growing into the code design Fields yeah so for example textile design or for example there's a lot of other designs industrial design and stuff right or you can go for uiux the thing is uiux design pays more right now so a lot of people get into nid for that and I don't think that's a good investment because I was reading a lot about it I didn't find that nids have a great placement record in that terms and secondly in uiux right as a whole also like if you compare it from that perspective and the second thing which happens is that in uiux design for example when I am hiring for that you portfolio matters a lot more yeah you don't care about the degree so for example in nid or a ni will probably score them one bonus point out of 100 which a good thing that okay they have studied this for the last four years but at the end of the day if you are someone from an i example who has done UI design I probably still prefer them more because they understand Tech products and they understand them more so again this is a bias perspective from a tech product perspective if you want to go into score design I unfortunately find that there's a very limited number of people who really care about that I feel like uiu design you can learn in 5 six months by yourself at least the basics right to the point where nid puts you out at 3 or 4 years again there's nothing against nid I think design is very dependent on the person's taste right so if you have the taste then you can get it I'll give an example the designer we the only full-time designer we have at stimler is actually a dentist ear designer they have zero background in studying design assets a lot of the designers we hire are exactly like that they were doing something completely totally different it's more about the taste as you say so if they have a taste in design they can learn design very soon and they can create a solid portfolio and a solid design portfolio especially put in public I think that's worth much more than a degree so nothing against an idea just feel that from a UI uxn perspective it's not worth it uh and what kind of jobs do at least the first you said there two sections right one is the textile for folks and things like that fashion and all that how much money do they make so they are less than your uh use well engineering so this is 70 80k a month yeah close to that probably even slightly lower on that if you take an average perspective there's a growth POS potential there so if you like open qua and you search for an ID placements you'll find a lot of people who probably started their career at 20K or 30k and they have grown over the years to two lakhs or three lakhs I find that growth scale to be very lower or the curve to much slower compared to an engineering degree or a tech job for example so if you want to go to uiuj probably get into a tech college and work on that because if you have a tech skill plus a uiuj skill I think that's much more valuable than a degree plus a skill that so the

### [38:06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkKPqmCYEws&t=2286s) Exam #10

last one we have the NDA what does the NDA stand for so it stands for a National Defense Academy and you need to give this exam in your class 12th or before the end of class 12th to be able to get into either of Army Navy or Air Force so of course like probably the top of the ladder when it comes to like serving for the country and stuff and I also feel that it's so the ndx is very difficult by the way but I was reading about it I think that probably from a if someone asks if a junior and one of my siblings actually wants to be for IND and I think it's a good job in that terms because not a lot of people in class 11 12 level are very serious about it right so you hav't Ben so but the number of seats are also very low right so the reason I won't put it in an a for example is that NDA hardly has 300 400 seats right and you still have a lck of people appearing that exam so the exam competition is very tough but if you really care about this exam right if you want if you go deeper into NDA preparation as such the subjects in here is also again maths and English so that's a common part across a lot of these exams so ultimately I can the what I can see is that it's mostly math and English yes and math sure you're either you know you've practiced it since grade four grade five and you've gotten good at it over the years or you g to tution for it and solved lots of problems or it's English which is learned best conversation right like I've never seen anyone read a book on English and just get good it's more like you do it again and again until you get really good interesting and uh the one thing about NDA is that GK is also involved in here okay so you so again that puts you slightly on an Advantage same with UPC right yeah if you're preparing for an NDA versus i and still giving NDA so that put in a slight of advantage and the pay scale is great so uh basically if you clear NDA you would go into a three years process training and then you would get into a uh left role in an Air Force or Army and the pay skill is pretty good I think it's over one lakh you plus all the perks Plus do seem like they have lots of perks both on the B level but they come more with perks than actual cash yes uh the thing is that upsc has much more competition and he has uh and the number of seats are similar got it this

### [40:09](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkKPqmCYEws&t=2409s) Final thoughts on entrance exams

was exhaustive it was long I learned so much I understand ultimately it boils down to English and math if you do English and math well you can do all of this uh and I think this is very useful to see the scope of you know how everything goes you've added lots of nuance and color both on the side as a student if you few years ago now running an app that has many of these people come and to prepare for it thank you so much for this is there anything you want to leave the audience with especially somebody looking at you know entrance exams so I think like you would be either falling into two parts if you are someone who is very passionate about one of these things please go towards that no matter like what I say today about Iz being the top thing if you're passionate about need for example or passionate about even NDA you have a much better chance to do this while going into the I everyone else hates it everyone doing it for a job yes that's the that will put you out of a league but if you have zero clue don't go for something T because you probably won't be able to generate enough passion or interest in it to sign out at the top and I think being at the top in any field is much better than being at an a in a field so that's what I feel I

### [41:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkKPqmCYEws&t=2474s) Discussion about Stimula app and its future plans

want to ask you one question about your own app about stimula there's a lot of competition there's a bunch of AI apps that will now say Hey you know allow me to do a conversational agent teach me English give me you know feedback and all that how do you I'm sure you want become the best right how do you know you're doing well and what's the plan for the future for you so I think like from day one when we started we knew that this is a global problem this is a large scale problem so there would be competition if not today maybe when the tech is mainstream there would be competition so our Focus always has been staying one layer ahead specifically and building the best product globally so if you're competing with someone building an app in us we have to make sure that the product is better and for that AI is of course the thing which we have been investing a lot in so for example last year we won the Google Play's best AI app award on play store which is basically that's major yes that was the first year where our app was live and it tells us that in terms of AI specifically we are doing among the best work in India and we want to top it up right in the next year we probably want to win this award in 10 different countries right so that's the number one thing number two thing we are doing is that we are investing a lot in AI architecture right so because a lot of our work does with raw audio so what we are trying to do is can we build an architecture which is very specific to us which we can own because that eventually gives you for take advantage if not for perpetuity at least for the next two to three years so that is something we investing in we are setting up a long-term AI team at an early stage itself and that's the basic idea I think the only way to win from competition is have the best product if you globally and you're able to figure out distribution which is a key thing of course so if you have the combination of these two I think you can just win so that's the philosophy lovely I mean it's your 2223 hearing you walk in with so much Enlightenment knowing these spaces so well knowing your apps so well it's very inspiring to see thank you so much for joining us and hopefully the audience likes it as well that's it for me that's

### [43:01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkKPqmCYEws&t=2581s) Conclusion

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