Why aggressive examination aspirants are flocking to check areas in Chennai

In 2025, round 13.4 lakh candidates appeared for the UPSC prelims, and over 22 lakh sat for the NEET exams throughout India. Year after yr, the pool of aspirants for civil providers and medical entrance examinations continues to develop. Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu has turn out to be a hub for a lot of teaching centres, and together with them, the variety of examine areas has additionally elevated vastly.

As you stroll by means of Anna Nagar, one can find a personal examine corridor on almost each nook, providing a everlasting reserved seat to any aspirant for a month-to-month price. These packed areas have turn out to be the go-to particular person examine spots for a lot of college students.

Nageshwari Babu, who runs Banyans Study Hall in Anna Nagar, says a blended crowd — together with NEET PG, FMG, banking, CA, police choice, and UPSC aspirants — spends over 10 hours a day there. “We present the infrastructure and curate the environment for college kids to remain centered, from newspaper subscriptions to particular person lockers. Not everybody getting ready for aggressive exams has a disruption-free zone at residence, which is why these examine areas are rising in quantity,” says Ms. Nageshwari.

In Mylapore, Santhosh Study Academy has been round for 4 years with about 78 seats, attracting principally CA and PG NEET aspirants. “Anna Nagar has turn out to be a hub for UPSC aspirants to the purpose the place examine areas don’t even want advertising and marketing there. Many have no idea that examine areas now exist in different neighbourhoods too,” says Mr. Santhosh who runs the house.

He recollects how the pattern initially took root in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, when it grew to become a hub for examine areas catering to CA college students. “There is a sure environment the place everybody stays glued to their books, as a result of these exams demand that degree of dedication to clear,” he provides. “I’ve designed the cabins in order that college students can not see one another, reducing out distractions.” Of course, examine areas have their very own seasons too; throughout off-exam months, the variety of college students tends to drop.

For many college students, public libraries had been as soon as the default choice. Pramod, a scholar who now makes use of a examine corridor in Chennai, says: “I used to depend on the native library, however with out web or different trendy facilities, it simply was not sensible anymore.”

“If I’m learning at residence for one thing as severe because the TNPSC Group 1 examination, even with a devoted school room, distractions are unavoidable. Studying with buddies has not been productive both, which is why I selected a examine house that’s completely different from those my buddies go to, so I can solely focus on finishing my work,” says Rashya Begum, a TNPSC aspirant at Banyans Study Hall. “I’ve reserved my seat right here, which suggests I get a everlasting spot all yr lengthy.”