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Is Gujarati medium a disadvantage for engineering?
Not for school science or for the entrance exams, which are available in Gujarati. It becomes a real adjustment at degree level, where engineering is taught and examined in English. The workable approach is to study science in the language you think in, while learning the technical vocabulary in English from the start.
Where the medium genuinely does not matter
Understanding physics is understanding physics. A student who grasps a concept in Gujarati has grasped the concept, and entrance papers are available in Gujarati.
Forcing an early switch often produces a student who is behind in both the subject and the language at once.
Where it genuinely does
Degree engineering is taught in English, its textbooks are in English, and its examinations are in English. That transition is real and it arrives at the same time as a harder syllabus.
Pretending otherwise does the student no favours.
The approach that works
Teach the concept in the language the student thinks in, and teach the technical terms in English alongside, from Class 11 onward.
Students taught this way tend to end up genuinely bilingual in the subject, which is the outcome you want anyway. Here, Gujarat Board is taught in Gujarati medium or English medium, and technical terms are taught in English regardless.
Taught by Darshit Bhatt, founder and lead faculty at Darshit Sir Institute. Instrumentation and Control engineer, with a master's degree and a chartered degree, teaching in Paldi, Ahmedabad since 2006.
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