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1. The classes are ill
scheduled….not taking care of how the students will cover the things….at the
end, when exams are approaching they keep classes too frequently, that it
becomes difficult to even revise properly whatever is covered in classes
because of exhaustive schedule…..
2. There are no proper class
tests taken…..class tests are given least importance and ignored…
3. Syllabus is not covered
properly in many subjects…many topics are just ignored…pharma, which is a major
subject, is hardly 30-40% covered…many overlapping topics are not
covered….some faculties are just not competent enough, they are either confused,
or ill-knowledged, or too much haphazard in their approach…
4. Subjectwise modules given
are a nightmare to go through…they are huge….things are given in paragraphs,
not in a well prepared note fashion…..its a mix and match of what is taught in
class and what is not taught in class, so difficult to handle….
5. No proper seating
arrangement…chairs are too much uncomfortable to attend 10-12 hour long
classes...
6. The classrooms are ill
ventilated with no proper exhaust and air circulation leading to an unbearable
atmosphere...
7. They are lacking even in
providing the basic aminities like clean toilet and water to wash hands…
Below, I have taken each of
the issues in detail…..
There is a wave in the market
due to which
all the #PGMEE aspirants are ending up
joining DAMS for their PG Preparations.
DAMS is Charging a Huge amount of
Rs.98, 000, which is way more than other
coaching institutes (which is around 65, 000)
. BUT the big question is does it worth to
give 35, 000 extra for getting coaching in
DAMS...?????
I joined DAMS in the October
2014 batch,
with the hope that by joining early the
course will be completed well in time before
upcoming May exams. The batch was
started on 19 th October 2014, with only 1.5
classes every week ( Saturday half day, and
Sunday full day). By the end of December
only four subjects were covered during
which just 2-3 classes per week were taken.
Then came January when the classes were
increased to 3-4 per week. And now in
march they are scheduling classes almost
every day on the name of completing the
syllabus and more importantly to free the
space for new batches.
They Say in their Booklets
“Student First @
DAMS”….now I understood what they
meant….student is the first to get
fooled….student is the first to be targeted to
make money….money is the only thing they
care about …when you go for admission they
very nicely tell you whole of schedule of
classes and the tests…but later, once the fee
is paid, they forget everything what they
have said…neither the classes are well
scheduled, nor the class tests are taken
regularly…
Its actually “Money First @ DAMS”
About class schedule :
In the starting they kept classes 2 days a
week…in initial 11 weeks only 4-5 small
subjects were covered, instead of 8-10
subjects….by this they were simply saving
money which they have to give to the
lecturers for each subject…they didn’t care
about the students….they also clubbed
Gautam Nagar Batch With Karol Bagh (to
save lecturer’s fee), due to which students
from Gautam Nagar have to come all the
way to Karol bagh wasting around 3-4
hours daily in travelling….
once the strength was enough, which is after
3 batches, means three months, they start
taking classes in exhaustive
schedules...they never though that the
syllabus should be completed well in time…
and now in march, they are bombarding us
with lectures... Lectures are kept almost
every day…at this time when we should have
been revising the things and preparing for
upcoming exams in May, we are running
every day to attend the exhaustive schedule
of classes…we are not even getting the time
to revise whatever taught in classes…
My question is - was the DAMS
management sleeping in October, November
and December ….? And now suddenly
somebody told them that exams are coming
in may so they woke up and got on their
toes to complete the syllabus before
exams….?
Just to save the fee which they have to pay
to faculty per subject, they covered only 4-5
smaller subjects in first 11 weeks….later in
january, when 3 batches were combined, it
became economical for them to pay for the
faculties….let students’ schedule go to
hell…..who cares….
About the Class Tests :
At the time of admission we
were told that
regular tests will be taken for all the
subjects covered…at this time in may, when
around 75% of the syllabus is complete, not
even 30% of the tests have been taken….they
don’t have any fixed timing of tests…they
take them whenever they want…
the course is about to be complete in a few
days now…..what do they think that we
should come specially, travelling for hours
from our residences, to give class tests after
the classes are over….do you think it is
feasible…. or there is no importance of class
tests ….?
About the Teachers and the
Syllabus
covered –
There is no coordination
between the
faculties about what is to be taught by
whom….the overlapping topics are worst
dealt with…every faculty says it will be
covered by the other faculty and as a result
the topics are left uncovered in classes….
There is no set syllabus according to which
they have to teach in class…they cover
according to the time which they have in
hand…
Pharmacology, which is a
major subject
is worst dealt with…it was not even 30%
covered in the class…many overlapping
topics were left saying that it will be dealt
with in respective subjects, for eg opthal-
pharmac, Psycho-pharmac…and a huge
amount of time was wasted in making
unnecessary jokes, …it would have been
better if some more topics were covered
instead of wasting time on jokes and
unnecessary talks ….the printed notes given
by DAMS of pharmacy are even worse…it’s a
thin book of few pages which contains all
the alien new drugs and nothing else….it can
be best titled as New Drug book….with the
combined knowledge of Pharmac class
notes and the module given, not even 40%
of the previous year questions can be
solved….the faculty didn’t had answer to
any of the student’s question, for every
question asked he had only one answer I
don’t know” with a head moving in NO…..
The psychology was dealt in the
worst haphazard manner…the teacher taught
the topics randomly ….there was no
sequence of what is to be told at what
time….you can actually see the Flight Of
Ideas in that class….a lot of time was
wasted in telling unnecessary stories….out
of two day class, around 6 hours were
wasted telling stories….now when we open
up our notes we simply cant understand
what is written since it was taught in such a
haphazard manner…..
The biochemistry ….it was
taught very
superficially …..it looks like they have taught
4-5 year old things…you cant solve any
recent year questions ( especially of AIIMS
and PGI) with the knowledge of whatever
taught in the class….many of the things
were skipped or dealt with in
detail…..whenever any question was asked
in the class student was made fun of by
saying “ ye to bahut gehri cheez sochi
aapne’ itna to mujhe bhi nahi aata”, or
“jyada poochho mat, bas yaad kar lo ise”….
Orthopaedics was also not
covered
well ….many of the topics were left
oncovered…tumors topic was finished in just
last half an hour of the class which doesn’t
yield you answer to any question when you
come back and try to solve them…soft tissue
topic was not covered, neither the arthritis
conditions…..
Teachers in dams have the
habit of jumping
from one topic to another and then coming
back to the topic, which really takes you off
the track from that topic and also makes the
notes all mixed up….
About other subjects, nothing
special is
taught in class, its all routine what other
institutes teach….nothing special sort of
thing for New AIPG pattern, in fact on the
name of AIPG one liners they have reduced
understanding part of the things and have
converted to dictating one liners……except
some teachers, others don’t really make any
efforts to make you understand the things….
About the Subject-wise Printed
Modules
Given :
When you start reading them they look like
the worst things to be read for the
preparation…..all are given in book like
fashion, lengthy paragraphs written, instead
of notes type…. instead of being compact
and easy to read, they are huge, some are
even more than 350-400 pages….you can
definitely not cover them with classes….you
need another separate set of time to cover
them….its just not possible to join feb
onward batch and cover things from the
subject-wise modules to sit in November
December exams….
About Class Venues :
They keep changing the venues
for each and
every class….and at every new place
students have to face new types of
problems….to save money and time they
keep combined classes of 7-8 batches in an
auditorium in ITO area (of delhi) where even
proper sitting arrangement is not present,
it’s the most uncomfortable seating
arrangement you will ever see for a
lecture….the hall is overcrowded to
accommodate the 7-8 batches’ students, for
which they keep simple plastic chairs which
have only back rest, with no writing space
and no hand rest….the chairs are so
uncomfortable that whole body starts aching
even after attending half day of the class,
and after coming back to room from a 10
hour class you feel so exhausted that you
cant study anymore but to lie down…..
think about this scenario when exams are
2-3 months ahead and you are coming all
exhausted and body aching all over, from
the uncomfortable class…..all your
preparation plans and study schedule will
be ruined…..
NO place to Escape in case any Fire Breaks
up :
the ITO, Navashakti Auditorium
Venue, is
overfilled with students (around 600...6-8
batches combined) beyond its capacity...the
auditorium has just one exit at the ground
level...even in a simple Break time, it takes
8-10 minutes for a student sitting at the
back to come out of the door all the way
covering whole length of the class passing
between the crowd...
Now, in case if any fire
breaks up, other
than the few who are sittnig in the front,
nobody will be able to escape the hall in
that stampede situation and will be burnt
alive there and then...the room is
congested with lot of plastic chairs which
will burn like fuel...
who will take the responsibility of any such
mishap if happens...who will be responsible
for the lives lost...???
they dont care...money is bigger than any
lives...
About the Condition Inside the Classroom :
The classrooms are small and
low roofed in
which they accommodate more than 200
students at a time…rooms are without any
proper ventilation due to which in no time
carbon dioxide and humidity starts to build
up inside and it becomes extremely difficult
to manage with that and concentrate on
what is taught in class…..
The projection from the
overhead projector
is so low that if you are sitting behind
5-6 th row, then you wont be able to see
lower 1/3 rd of the board due to heads of the
students sitting ahead of you….the
projection cant be angled high because of
the poorly engineered low roofed
classroom….same is true for the teacher, you
cant see the teacher because they are sitting
almost at same level, so from behind its like
attending a video session of the notepad
with no direct visualization of the teacher
and whatever they are trying to make us
understand with their gestures……
About the Facebook DAMS club thing :
They say that you can post
your querries
on the DAMS group on Facebook where they
are answered by the Faculties…..no faculty
is free enough to see your querry, and then
it gets lost in the flood of posts, and your
question simply remain unanswered….there
are few active faculties who like to answer
only in A/B/C/D, with no explanation for the
answer given…. Do we have joined the
coaching classes to get A/B/C/D as answer
to our doubts…..??????
If somebody posts some
complain or their
resentmet over there they are specifically
deleted before they could be read by the
other students….instead of listening the
things and having a solving approach, they
have a suppressing approach, a not
listening approach, a we don’t care
approach …..
Overall Facebook Club is a big
waste of time
and a big distraction form studies……
About the Tablet which they give to every
regular batch student :
They promise to give a Tablet
(Tab), which
they call iDAMS, to every student who joins
regular course saying that it contains many
important lectures which will be useful to us
once the classes are over they claim it to be
costing around 30, 000 for iDAMS students…
even if we say that we don’t want it so
please deduct whatever 5-6k it costs them,
they are not ready to deduct the Fee, even if
we decline to take the Tablet….
when we got the Tab, we found
that it was
of the lowest quality possible …the so called
lectures in it were 2-3 hour recordings of
test and discussions sessions, not full
subject covered….and to the worst all the
lectures are 4-5 years old……means simply
of NO USE….many of the students sold them
on OLX and Quikr within a month of
receiving it…
its just another trick to snatch out money
from students’ pocket….
About Basic Aminities :
Even after taking a huge
amount of
Rs.98, 000 in fee they cant provide students
with clean toilets and water in the wash
basin tap….due to which after attending
toilets, students directly go to the drinking
water tap and wash hands there….
At Rajendra Palace Class Venue, the
drainage of the Boys toilet got blocked on a
weekend which lead to overflowing of the
urine on the toilet floor ….for which students
complained about…the office boy/attendant
said that he talked with the cleaner and he
is demanding Rs.200 to solve it….
but even until next weekend
nothing was
done about it and the whole class venue
kept stinking heavily, for which then we
personally mailed DAMS Director, neither
any reply was given to the mail and nor the
drainage was cleared until next weekend ……
then we again mailed personally to him and
even sent a pic o[censored]rine overflowing on the
toilet floor, just to get no reply and no
solution…..it took them 4 weekends to take
action and get the blocked drain
cleared….for 4 weeks the urine was flowing
on the toilet floor, and whole class venue
kept heavily stinking including the
classroom….
Rs.200 were too much a big
amount for
them to spend to provide students a clean
hygienic classroom environment….
So the big question is :
is DAMS really worth to pay
Rs.35, 000 more
than other PG Medical Coachings…..????
they are just taking advantage of the flow
which is there among the students and they
are utilizing their marketing strategies in the
best way to attract the students…..
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