25/09/2026
Indian students are nowhere in top 40 of Country's Youth Scores best at Maths OR Science (Reference: Visual Capitalist)
This should make every person connected with Indian education pause for a moment.
The latest global comparisons of student performance in Mathematics and Science show an uncomfortable reality: the world's leading education systems are producing young people who can reason, solve problems, understand science and apply knowledge to real-world situations.
And India?
We are not even part of the latest PISA comparison.
That doesn't mean Indian children are incapable. It means we don't have a current place on this particular global benchmark to demonstrate where our 15-year-olds stand. And that, to me, is deeply concerning.
Because while countries are obsessing over how to build better thinkers, problem-solvers and innovators, we seem increasingly obsessed with building a '10-minute delivery economy.'
Food in 10 minutes. Groceries in 10 minutes. Everything at our doorstep in minutes.
We celebrate IIT selections, coding competitions, exam scores and a handful of extraordinary young achievers—but what about the millions of ordinary students who will eventually become our scientists, entrepreneurs, teachers, engineers, creators, administrators and citizens?
Are we building their ability to think—or merely their ability to compete?
Are our classrooms creating curiosity, experimentation and independent thinking?
Or are we still rewarding memorisation, marks and the ability to reproduce an answer written by someone else?
This is not an indictment of our children. It is a question for all of us who design the system around them.
India has one of the world's largest young populations. That can become our greatest advantage—or our greatest missed opportunity.
As the founder and creator of 'TiES – The IDEAZIA Education System', I don't want Indian schools to merely produce students who score well.
I want us to build schools that produce young people who can think deeply, solve boldly, create fearlessly and shape the future.
Because the real question isn't:
“How many marks did our children score?”
The real question is:
“Are we preparing them well enough to build the world they are going to inherit?”