43 Pct Engineers in India Can't Write Correct English

According to Aspiring Minds Director Varun Aggarwal, this is by far the most comprehensive analysis of English skills of engineers in India.

“Recruiters and HR managers around the world report that candidates with English skills above the local average stand out from the crowd and garner 30-50 percent higher salaries than similarly-qualified candidates without English skills. The trends in India are no different, with English fluency being one of the key qualities recruiters look for during the interview process,” Varun Aggarwal was quoted saying to Business Standard.

Interestingly, not more than 30 percent of engineering students, who undergo stress and exhaustion while preparing for entrance exams, were acquainted with the word "exhaust".

In order to improve this situation, schools need to do a lot more to cover the gap and engineering colleges need to introduce bridge courses in the first semester and during semester breaks for students with deficient skills, the survey added.

Further it was noted that in terms of vocabulary, while comfort with conversational English words was high at 78 percent, only 48 percent of engineering graduates showed aptitude for words often used in business parlance.

In terms of classification of vocabulary levels based on frequency, only 28 percent of engineering students displayed competency in words like decadent, nefarious and impasse. These words were classified in the low frequency, high difficulty category, which means they are infrequent in common facets of life, but are important for knowledge-based profiles such as research and business analysis.

(With PTI inputs)