DATA SOURCE

PRIMARY DATA

It refers to firsthand information which is collected to solve a specific problem. Primary

data is collected by interviewing respondents by building a questionnaire and getting
required response.

SECONDARY DATA

It refers to readily information available data from published or printed sources. It is

normally used in the case of academic research and to a certain extent in case of social
research.

SAMPLE SIZE

Sample size determination is the act of choosing the number of observations or replicates to
include in a statistical sample. The sample size is an important feature of any empirical
study in which the goal is to make inferences about a population from a sample. The
sample size of my research is 50.

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES

There are different factors that affect students choice of course in college.

One of this is family related factors. Studies revealed that Filipino immigrants and
non-immigrants rely heavily on their families decision-making. Students cope by following
their parents advice. They also have to cope with an expectation of financially supporting the
family upon completing their education. Studies from other Asian countries also show
parents impact in decision making of students when it comes to students course preference.

Furthermore, it is reported that parents are deeply involved and influential to their
high-achieving childrens college choices. The report also found open houses, dialogue with
college friends, alumni, and admitted-student programs are extremely influential to students.
The report claimed these sources are not well known, but very powerful to students decision
making for their college. The study also found 26% of sampled students paid a specialist or
advisor during the college decision process. The studies presented are important to the
present study since the studies explain the importance of taking parents advice and
permission in choosing a college course.

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 Respect for family is one of the most influential factors that impact Filipino students
career decision. It is concurred that Out of respect and loyalty, it may not be appropriate to
express personal desires; rather, one may alter ones interests to maintain harmony. As a
sign of respect, Filipino children want to do well for the sake of the family, follow parents
advice about choosing a job or major in college and lastly, make sacrifices for the family.

For practicality reasons, it is also reported that parents usually encourage careers that will not
cost much money, but at the same time, are stable sources of income. Careers in nursing,
accounting, and engineering are highly popular for Filipino families. These writings discuss
that the family decides in what college course students should take is also associated with the
financial status of the family.

Aside from family related factors, economic factors which includes the employability and
availability of job in the future is also considered by students. Employability, i.e., the realistic
feasibility of being employed in a stable job, then becomes an important factor in career
decision-making. Coming from a collective culture, immigrant parents and children seek
careers that will support the whole family. Moreover, it is found that Asian American men
and women tend to be more interested in technical fields, the physical sciences, and non-
enterprising business positions over artistic, social, or socially interactive business careers.

Students are expected to research their future options and investigate the world of
work in relation to self-knowledge and use that information to make informed career
decisions. High school, students are expected to create strategies to achieve future career
success and satisfaction by modifying their educational plans to support their career goals, to
evaluate and update their career-planning portfolios, and to apply academic and employment
readiness skills through programs such as work-based learning.

CHAPTER 3: ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION

The data were collected through questionnaire. The collected data were not easily
understandable, so we like to analyze the collected data in a systematic manner and
interpreted with simple method.

The analysis and interpretation of the data involves the analyzing of the collected data and
interpretation it with pictorial representation such as bar charts, pie charts and others.

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QUESTIONAIRE

What is your Occupation?

1. Based on the Responses 40.7% are students.

2. Others then that there are working Professionals & Doctors.

GENDER

Gender play vital role in purchase decisions. Gender classified on sex basis i.e. male and
female.

Majority of the Responses are Female with the average of 53.8%

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AGE

Age is classified data collected from respondent who ages from 14 year to above 30years old
& above.

1. It is the age Group of the Responders.

2. The majority of the Age group have Responders are from the age 21-26 yrs with consists
of 80% & remaining 19.2% consists of age group of 15-20yrs.

Q Which is your School Board?

The Survey Conducted was asked about their school boards so the Majority of the
Responders are from STATE board with along with close enough result ICSE board &
remaining Responders are from CBSE & other boards.

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Q. Do you prefer going to a Coaching Class?

When asked to the Responders about going to the Coaching Classes about
88.5% needed coaching classes and other 11.5% never needed coaching classes.

Q. You took Coaching For?

When asked the Responders for what they went for Coaching, the result is shown in the graph
as above.
Most of the people prefer going to coaching for studding it includes school, college,
professional courses etc.

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Other than that people also prefer taking coaching for Sports % fitness activities, this trend is
booming.
Q. On what Basis, Do you select your Coaching classes?

The Responders were asked about their way of selecting their coaching classes
in 96.2% prefer on teacher as majority of the responders prefer taking coaching
for studies.
People also prefer selecting the class by their location best the area.
Infrastructure preference is seen in going to gym & cooking classes.

Q. Do you agree that Coaching is a Business now?

This is a major debt question when asked the responders but mostly all of the
responders agreed to the it.

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There were only few people who still believe that coaching is not the business.

Q. Do you think Coaching Classes are becoming a Necessity in One's Life?

This is the trickiest question, when asked and 73.1 % think it is a necessity of
todays world.

Q. How much would you rate your Coaching Classes on the Scale of 1 to 10?

While scaling them on the average of 1 to 10 and on the experience of the

responders they have given the rate about the coaching classes.

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46.2 % people think their coaching is great while the least rating given was of
no Four.
Q. What are the issues you face in your Coaching classes?
Answer:-While taking the review about the issues these are the answers which responders
gave:-
1. No proper Attention.
2. Sometimes difficult to raise and clear a doubt
3. Infrastructure, small space for classrooms
4. In coaching classes every student is not attended properly.
5. Large batch size and quality coaching
6. Time
7. Biased teaching system. Students from same school forming majority in class are given
more attention and syllabus is designed and taught as per their school curriculum
8. In coaching classes there are too many students in one batch. So it is difficult for the
faculty to attend every students.
9. Less holidays.

Q. What is the reason a student turn towards coaching classes even though they
have School/College education?
Answer: - While taking the review about the issues these are the answers which responders
gave:-

1. Cause everyone goes even the student wants to go

2. not paying attention in school/college
3. For teacher it's very difficult to watch every student they understanding or not that's
why some students need coaching
4. Taking school /college lightly Then pressure of society Pressure of parents
5. Because...you there are no tests which happen in school...directly there is unit test
which has huge syllabus. ..individual chap test help us to actually give the test rather
than giving a direct huge syllabus exam
6. Neck to neck completion of getting higher grades than other, peer pressure and lack of
attention in school.
7. Pressure

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SUGGESTIONS
In a race to excel more than most of ones competitors, coaching classes along with other
institutions have become a resort for the betterment of students academic performances. In
a world where students commit suicide for not having scored a few marks more, high school
and college-going students attending these classes has now become routine.

Today, coaching classes have become ubiquitous in the lives of city students. It is impossible
to imagine students lives w/o them. They are simultaneously a compulsion, and at the same
time criticized a lot for spoiling education, students lives, standard of schools etc. Due to
almost all students attending coaching classes in cities, the interest of school teachers to
impart knowledge to students has now started dipping gradually. Mrs. Rekha Nalawade, a
high school teacher of Marathi at SVPT, Thane said, Students do not pay utmost attention in
classes when we teach them. This is because they have already learnt it in their coaching
classes and presume that they have a lot of knowledge on that subject. This lowers our
motivation to perform our best. But when questioned, they usually fail to be up to the
mark. Mr. Ankush Sawant, a Sanskrit teacher from the same school endorses this opinion
and claims that these classes create an illusion of knowledge in the minds of students who
carry around their half-baked knowledge proudly!

According to a study undertaken by Stanford University, college student coaching improves

retention and graduation rates. True, the approach in these classes is centred towards marks
and better academic performance. But it is our education system which is to blame since it
weighs the students standings on the brilliance of his score-card. Practical exams in science
are given a sufficiently low weight age as compared to theory which, though humongous in
its extent can be managed due to assistance in rote learning given by the classes the students
attend. In coaching classes for high schools, students are literally made to write formulae,
theorems many times (which they just copy from textbooks or additional notes) before an
actual test is taken on that topic. Many times, students are encouraged to accept things as
given in the textbooks without arguments or doubts that may arise out of inquisitiveness.

Hammering of the matter into the students heads by means of continuous reiteration in
written or oral form has become the way most coaching classes function today. Mathematical
magic tricks are taught without the students actually understanding the reasons behind why
things happen the way they do magically!

Professors in these classes teach a single concept in many different classes. Hence they
virtually have it at the tips of their tongues. Repetition of the same concept in the nth class
having more or less the same kind of students requires no genius. Yet, they represent youth,
liveliness and energy since most of them are recent graduates. Students admire them even
beyond their academic connections. It is a well known fact that girls tend to develop
obsessions and crushes on young and suave professors and dont hesitate to stalk them

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outside classes and crave to peep into their non-professional lives. Does XYZ sir have a
girlfriend? If yes, Oh, NO! My prospects look bleak now *disheartened giggling*. A few
successful attempts to acquire their favourite professors email IDs and phone numbers, and
these girls start falling into teenage lovey-dovey illusions. In case, the teacher is sensible, he
might ignore the girl for good. But there have been many cases wherein they have taken
undue advantage of girls who are foolish enough to happily set a trap for themselves.
Hiranand Achhara, a professor at a coaching class said, It is not the fault of the institution if
such situations arise. Parents must warn their kids not to get involved in such matters and
that they must maintain a strictly professional connection with the classes.

Attending high-school coaching classes is not only a waste of time for students who are
sincere and would study under any conditions, but also a burden for ones who are basically
not interested in studying. Such students who have a keen interest in pursuing extra-curricular
activities during their last few years at school cannot do so, on account of long hours spent at
coaching classes. This hampers their later years if they want to pursue careers in fields that
are non-academic. Almost all students today who attend extra classes have lost their evening
play time. Incidents of backaches, neckaches, eye-related problems, obesity have been
increasing among students and all of them can be mostly attributed to sitting in classes for
hours at a stretch without any physical activity whatsoever. Students prefer to chat on the
internet in their free time because they are bored to touch any kind of books after successive
school and classes sessions. Hence, they miss on a valuable treasure trove of books which are
responsible for their all-round development at that age. No doubt, lessons are made fun and
interesting in coaching classes, but they are mostly so at the cost of efficient and conceptual
understanding. On a different note, these classes introduce students to ones from different
schools across the city and reveal the amount of competition which exists beyond their little
circle of friends.

Akida Wahi, an undergraduate student from a college in Pune and and originally from of
Delhi said, Coaching classes at the school-level are completely unnecessary. They become a
burden and students neglect other likings like swimming, karate etc. At the college level, a
good coaching class is a must since one needs extensive practice and continuous and expert
guidance for entrance exams which unfortunately our colleges fail to provide us. But parents
must gauge their wards capabilities in the board exam syllabus before pushing him/her for
preparing for the entrance exams. Gautami Srivastava, a student who has completed her
high-school and junior college education in Shimla claims that coaching classes help only the
intelligent lot and the ones who are sincere. For others, she agrees that they are a burden.

On the lines of the typical chicken and egg syndrome, coaching classes have given rise to a
controversy on whether the coaching classes have arisen due to inefficiency of the teachers at
schools or vice versa i.e. the schools have started getting increasingly inefficient with the
encroachment of coaching classes on their space. All kinds of teachers have existed in
schools those who do not handle their assignments well enough, along with the better ones.
They charge higher for helping their students get higher marks. Anyhow, we can agree that
they are a by-product of capitalism and those enrolling for them must try to make the most

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out of them as aware customers and those not doing so must learn to do without them!
Individuals are not to take decisions as a herd, but as per their individual needs.

Conclusion
Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire and schools and colleges are the
workshops that act as catalysts to ignite that fire. Pedagogy is not trade and commerce, but an
art and a science.

The word industry is related to production of goods for sale in the market or a provision of
services. Do we really think that it is viable to use the term Industry with education?
Education aims at physical, intellectual, social, cultural, emotional and moral development of
the students.

Nonetheless, it IS somewhat closer now to the definition of Industry, where in the present
times, numerous Education (Coaching) Centers / Training Institutes are trading students with
the help of their agents. Once the world saw the heinous Slave Trade and now its the new
avatar where students are bought and sold to make money in the name of imparting
knowledge.

A few decades ago tuition meant a few more learning hours for the slow learners to bring
them at par with other students but now the connotations have changed totally. Now going to
coaching has become a status symbol and parents feel proud saying, My child goes to xyz
coaching Allow me to explain Tuition Fee makes up the biggest slice of the school fees
that parents pay. Then, how come, another Tuition!!

Parents dont realize that this is all part of a business, which starts with the onset of Basant,
now-a-days known as Admission Season when all the agents gear up to catch the prey even
in some unusual areas. These unusual areas of attraction are the tribal belts where
uneducated parents and innocent students become an easy catch for them.

By means of a plea that their child gets personal attention, learning through latest teaching
methodology using PPTs and projectors, prepared notes, question banks and better
preparation for exam through mock test etc.; the parents are coaxed into agreeing for
admissionbut is this real education?

The collaborations with various schools in the name of good result is also part of commission
business where both school and coaching proprietor look for their bounty without giving a
minutes thought to the future of these budding minds.

Self-study, which used to be very important is now not given a thought as students feel
relaxed that they will get ready notes, so why to consult books. Starting with the Gurukul
system, our education system underwent total transformation with Macaulays policy of
English education which aimed at producing clerks. But now what we are heading towards:
Generating a class of stylish, English speaking Gentry with no jobs and no morality?

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Choice is yours because each one has the ability and talent to brush up oneself, rather than
relying on anyone else to polish it for you. India had seen talented doctors, engineers,
scientists, CAs, journalists, etc. even when there were no coaching classes HOTMAIL is
Indian and it has come through relentless self-efforts and not through Coaching Institutes; the
USB chip, which we so regularly use for everything related to technology Plug and Play is
an Intel invention done by an Indianthis too came when there was no coaching.

Remember reading a book under the light of a Lantern makes sure that your ONLY
see the Bookand nothing else around it!!!

Rely on your ability do the efforts use your resources and see the whole world come to
you!!

ANNEXURE
Q1. What is your Occupation?

Ans :-

Q2. Gender?

MALE
FEMALE

Q3. AGE?

4 -14 yrs
15 20 yrs
21 26 yrs
27 35 yrs
35 & above yrs

Q4. Which is your School Board?

State Board
CBSE Board
ICSE Board
IB Board
Others

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Q5. Do you prefer going to a Coaching Class?

o Yes
o No

Q6. Did you ever joined a Coaching Class?

o Yes
o No

Q7. You took Coaching for?

o Education
o Sports
o Gym & Fitness
o Cooking
o Personality Development
o Others

Q8. On what basis, do you select your Coaching Classes ?

o Teachers & Trainers

o Facilities & Hospitality
o Location
o Infrastructure
o Others

Q9. Do you agree that Coaching is a Business now?

o Yes
o No

Q9. Do you think Coaching Classes are becoming a Necessity in ones life?

o Yes
o No
Q10. How would you rate Coaching classes on the scale of 1 to 10?
Ans:-

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