NEW DELHI: On Friday, when newspapers carried full-page advertisements inserted by two coaching institutes announcing the achievements of their students in the AIIMS entrance test, they seemed to be another in a series on exam results in recent days, from CBSE Class XII to JEE Advanced. To a careful observer, however, there was an oddity in the ads: nine of the toppers featured in the claims of both the institutes, among them two who apparently pursued regular classroom coaching at both places.
A random scanning of the JEE Advanced claims also revealed a similar trend. In fact, three coaching institutes claimed to have tutored four of the top 20 rank achievers in the entry test to the IITs. And like the AIIMS advertisements, the JEE Advanced…
