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You were not mediocre, school told you that you are mediocre.

I am 14 and i do want to give JEE as I want to be a cs student. I do coding and i love it, but i am at such a place that i think jee is the only option. I have not even studied more than 2 hour from a year because of our schools are close. People always demotivate me and they tell that if you won't have good college (especially IIT), you will fail and all you coding will not worth. And they are not wrong because I have heard this 10 thousand times. Is IIT JEE really needed to learn CS. If you are any boy here, he will say he want to "become jee", how can he become jee. Elders tell that if you get into IIT you will get 10 crore of package. Is is real? I am telling this from view of a kid who lives in this NEET/JEE only world.



>Elders tell that if you get into IIT you will get 10 crore of package

That's nonsense. I'm from CS at a top IIT, and only a handful of my batchmates have that kind of compensation, and that is after >5 years of experience. Absolutely nobody is going to give you a 10 crore salary fresh out of college.

For students from other not so popular streams, in India, a salary of Rs 10-20 lakh a year is more realistic. Again, this is after 4-5 years of industry experience. Even after IIM, the average salary is around 20-30 lakhs.




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