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A comment on India’s civil servant exam. Parent comment

Re:India’s civil servant exam by witty_username on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @09:17AM (#10185451)
> With a population of more than a billion I think India has enough bright minds available for all of them.

Nope, most people aren't educated fully.

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Re:India’s civil servant exam by free on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @10:55AM (#10186036)
India has a literacy rate of 90% as of 2015[1], so I think the point holds.

1. http://www.uis.unesco.org/DataCentre/Pages/country-profile.a...

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Re:India’s civil servant exam by notahacker on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @12:13PM (#10186561)
There's a bit more to being well educated than basic literacy though, and it's only among the young that literacy almost reaches 90%

Your link also notes that there are 255 million illiterate people in India, which is around the total population of the world's fourth most populous country.

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Re:India’s civil servant exam by witty_username on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @04:11AM (#10190322)
Googling India literacy rate finds a source which says 75%. Maybe my gut experience is wrong because I live in an urban city in India, but I would be pretty impressed by 90%.
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