If your college Profs say things like - “this one is really important for exams; “that question may come”, “this will be the test pattern” etc | That college is useless degree mill. | No IIT, NPTEL lecturers say that. | STEM/Engineering should be learnt by doing (projects)
It's just TN/KL state board school education repackaged higher education.
If they give questions beforehand or predefined set of questions for exams, then both teaching & learning failed
In 2026, if they ask to maintain class work, notebook, hand written assignment, lab record notebook etc🤡🤡🤡 that old school college is useless
Just ask your friends at IITs NITs IISc or even some private ones like BITS, Manipal, Amrita, VIT or whatever. All this old school nonsense won't be there
Most core engineering subjects should have a mini project evaluation weightage.
In my IIT H even math course had code implementation: lab simulation based learning using MATLAB, Python, Qiskit, and Excel/Simulink, etc
Some tier 3 college in my state give previous year question & teacher teach only those & not lecture the concept/syllabus.
Do all this nonsense & wonder why no placements or bad graduate outcome.
Eg in CSE/software, You have to go to company & work on large architecture, bigger codebase, you have to understand every system design principles, data structures, algorithm, optimize everything, work on math/stats & data, not get some questions & write answers. If you study in those type of colleges, your aptitude will not improve