Overall I agree. Mass abusing children over the prospect of being able to make a respectable livelihood is not good. Neither in the short term nor the long term. These kind of systems are designed to cover up for the fact that there is a massive shortage in either good educational institutions or jobs or most often both. The burden and responsibility of the failure that follows is pushed onto the individual. “Maybe if you had studied you would have been one of the 0.1% of the applicants who were able to get into a good college.” Literally everyone I know is virulently hateful against dalits (among others) because people from minority groups can get into colleges with lower scores than someone who is for eg. an upper caste hindu due to affirmative action. Of course no one wonders (for example) why a country like India, an inevitable superpower any day now, which brain drains doctors to western countries has one doctor for every 850 people here (this includes quackery like ayurveda and half the qualified doctors should not be allowed near people). These kinds of systems breed hatred and misanthropy.