by Sahil MehrajIndia’s exam system profits off artificial scarcity and youth anxiety, failing millions as coaching industries grow while actual employment remains scarce. And this is the lie upon which every other lie in this system is founded. A machine made to reject 98 people so that 2 may be called geniuses is not a fluke of scale. Of the 1.87 lakh who took JEE Advanced 2025, 54,378 qualified, and 18,188 got an IIT seat. Two in every five IIT graduates in 2024 went unplaced.