This fascinating article from the Wall Street Journal describes the city of Kota in Rajasthan, India, which draws some 40,000 students to special schools which seek to prepare their students to take the arduous entrance examinations for the Indian Institutes of Technology. One third of the 8,600 students accepted to the IIT's this year passed through Kota (out of 310,000 applicants).  The prep school industry in Kota was started by Vinod Kumar Bansal, who started tutoring students in the 1980's and now runs one of the most successful schools, Bansal Classes.

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