No advantage for students from higher scoring boards IIT-JEE 2013: 

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to normalize Class 12 board results.

This means that students from boards giving higher scores may no longer have an advantage.

Faculty from IIT Bombay had earlier stated that giving 40 percent weightage to Class 12 boards would result in weaker students gaining admissions to the IITs. This was because of the varying difficulty of boards across the country.

Students who sat for JEE (Main) will now look at two factors when normalizing results:

- Performance in JEE (Main)
- Performance of other students on the same school board

Over 10.5 lakh students sat for JEE (Main), out of which 1.5 lakh will gain admission to the 16 IITs and Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad.

Five subjects will be used for the normalization process:

- Physics
- Mathematics
- Biology OR Chemistry OR Biotechnology OR Computer Science
- One language
-Any subject other than the above
There have been no details from CBSE on whether answer keys will be published or when Paper 2 results will be declared.

Source: Indian Colleges
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IIT Bombay to launch Massive Open Online Courses:

IIT-B has collaborated with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard to launch Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).  IIT Bombay has developed and deployed training programs, engaging thousands of participants at a time using Information and Communication Technologies.  The project aims to understand and solve issues in scaling up quality education using technology. IIT Bombay has a total of 14 academic departments, six centres, one school, and three interdisciplinary programmes.  It is recognised worldwide as a leader in the field of engineering education and research.  It is reputed for the quality of its faculty and the outstanding calibre of students graduating from its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Around 39,000 engineers and scientists have graduated from the institute. Source: Indian Colleges

Students from underprivileged background crack entrance exam JEE results 2013:

28 of the 30 students from Bihar's Super 30 free coaching center cracked the Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE).

Abhishek Kumar son of amechanic cleared the prestigious engineering exam. Abhishek aspires to become an electrical engineer, a trait that runs in his genes.

Others students of Super 30 like Bhanu Pratap son of Rampyare Pratap, a poor laborer from Uttar Pradesh also cleared the exam.

Pranav Kumar from Samastipur district in Bihar is the son of a landless farmer, Pankaj Kumar. Pranav studied in a government school. On cracking the exam, he said that AnandKumar "not only taught us but gave us the confidence to excel even in the face of odds".

When Ankit Kumar from Vaishali district in Bihar lost his father, a lineman in the telephone department, in a road accident last year, his life seemed to come to a standstill.

"I came to know of Super 30 and cleared its screening test. Here, I seemed to have found my new father," he said.

Shivangi Gupta, daughter of magazine vendor in Deha, 50 km from Kanpur, saw acute hardship from her childhood as her father Viresh Chandra Gupta struggled to make both ends meet.

"I was provided all help and stayed in Anand Kumar's and finally cracked my dream exam,"Shivangi said.

Farhad and YasmeenShafi's son Hanjala has also made it through the IIT-JEE. Hanjala's parentshave a small shop in Patna. They somehow scraped together money to pay his school fees. "Today my son is set to go to IIT," said a proud Yasmeen.

Santosh Kumar's father Sanjeev Mallik from Madhubani is worried how he will pay his son's IIT fees,but he has faith in god to see them through. "I don't have the money to buy him new clothes and books. But when god has brought him this far, he will take care of his future also. I am a driver and don't even know what IIT is," Mallik said.

A proud Afsar NathMishra, a Sanskrit teacher and priest from Banka, is proud that his daughter Preeti Kumari will be an engineer. "She will be our support when we are old," Mishra said.

Source: Indian Colleges

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13-year-old cracks IIT exam, again:

ARA: A 13-year-old child prodigy from Bihar's Bhojpur district, who had created history by becoming the youngest student to clear the IIT-JEE entrance exam last year, had cracked the prestigious examination again with an improved ranking this year. Satyam Kumar, whose father is a farmer, secured an all India rank of 679. He had got 8,137th rank last year and took the exam again to improve his ranking. The boy had broken the record of Delhi's Sahal Kaushik last year. Kaushik had cracked the IIT-JEE exam when he was 14. Born on July 20, 1999, Satyam had shown exceptional talent since childhood. He left Patna's Central Public School to move to Kota in Rajasthan to join an IIT coaching institute. The institute's director, R K Verma, took his test and found his so talented that he helped finance his studies for one of the toughest examinations in the country. Satyam, who passed his Class X examination from a Kota school, said he wants to be a scientist to contribute to aeronautical and aerospace engineering. At a function organized to felicitate him, Satyam told students to solve difficult problems of mathematics and physics playfully through duplet method. Source: TIMES OF INDIA URL : www.examhook.com

13-year-old cracks IIT exam, again:

ARA: A 13-year-old child prodigy from Bihar's Bhojpur district, who had created history by becoming the youngest student to clear the IIT-JEE entrance exam last year, had cracked the prestigious examination again with an improved ranking this year. Satyam Kumar, whose father is a farmer, secured an all India rank of 679. He had got 8,137th rank last year and took the exam again to improve his ranking. The boy had broken the record of Delhi's Sahal Kaushik last year. Kaushik had cracked the IIT-JEE exam when he was 14. Born on July 20, 1999, Satyam had shown exceptional talent since childhood. He left Patna's Central Public School to move to Kota in Rajasthan to join an IIT coaching institute. The institute's director, R K Verma, took his test and found his so talented that he helped finance his studies for one of the toughest examinations in the country. Satyam, who passed his Class X examination from a Kota school, said he wants to be a scientist to contribute to aeronautical and aerospace engineering. At a function organized to felicitate him, Satyam told students to solve difficult problems of mathematics and physics playfully through duplet method. Source: TIMES OF INDIA URL : www.examhook.com

Students can now create their own eBook:

College students across India may beable to pick and choose standalone chapters in a variety of subjects. In a move towards interactive education,Attano, a store for interactive educational ebooks, has launched Chapter Buy. Students can now buy chapters from arange of books by publishers in subjects including Engineering, Management,Science, and Commerce. “Students in India are adopting technology. With over 10 million tablets andover 60 million Internet connected phones – this is a no brainer that in a matter of time most students will use these devices to study,” says DeepakSheth, Director, Sheth Publishers Pvt Ltd, who has tied up with Attano. Sheth believes that giving students the chance to make their own book is the way forward. Soumya Banerjee, CEO, Attano is optimistic about the initiative. “Chapter Buy starts at just Rs 3. The median price point across the 10,000+ chapters we are offering is approximately Rs40,” he says. Chapter Buy includes 900 books at present and includes both UG and PG programs. It also covers entrance exams. The chapters can be read on a free Attano Reader that can be downloaded from the Attano websites and can be usedon PCs, laptops, androids and ipads. Students do not need to be connected to the internet once they have finished downloaded the chapters. Source:Indian Colleges URL : www.examhook.com

IIT- JEE advanced results 2013: Tips for students:

Candidates who are eagerly waiting for the IIT-JEE (advanced) results 2013 on June 23 should relax as the date of the results is fast approaching. According to Psychologist Arti Vadnerkar students should remain calm and patience. Students should also interact with their parents. She also recommends that students who are not able to clear the exams can also explore other career options.Students should focuses on positive thinking and focuses on reducing anxiety. The exam was held on April 7. IIT-JEE  is the first step in getting into the IITs, ISM Dhanbad and many other institutes across the country. Now the IIT aspirants will need to score 30 per cent more to get admission to the institute. The cut-off marks for admissions to Indian Institutes of Technology have been increased due to the top-20 percentile norm introduced by the Center. The 50% of Boards marks will be normalized by equating percentile amongst different boards/examining bodies and anchoring them to All India JEE Main percentiles, and 50% be normalized by equating each Board’s/examining Body’s percentile with JEE(Main) percentile marks of respective Boards /examining bodies. Source by: Indian Colleges URL : www.examhook.com

IIM admissions 2013: Odisha's tribal youth gets into IIM

For the students of many tribal groups in Odisha, clearing the Class 10 exam is considered a huge achievement.But a little help can bring out the best as it did for Ganeswar Miniaka, who isall set to take admission into one of India's coveted B-schools. Miniaka, 20, who belongs to Odisha'sprimitive Kandha tribe, has been invited by several prestigious institutions,including Indian Institutes of Management (IIM), after he scored 56.46 percentile in the Common Admission Test (CAT) held in October last year -thanks to his efforts and the support provided to him by a private institution here. CAT is one of the most rigorous entrance examinations for business administration programmers, and the test score is used by the country's top B-schools to shortlist applicants for admissions. "Although I have got six calls including those from IIM-Raipur (Chhattisgarh), Kashipur (Uttarakhand) and Udaipur (Rajasthan), I have decided to join IIM-Triruchiapalli," Miniakatold IANS in an interview. Miniaka, a resident of Serigumma village in Rayagada district, about 550 km from here, attributes his success to his continuous efforts and the support he received from Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), which provided him free coaching, study environment and proper care. Located in Bhuvaneswar, KISS is hometo around 20,000 tribal children who receive free education from kindergarten(KG) to post-graduate (PG) level and vocational training. Miniaka was invited by KISS in 2010 to take admission in a three-year degree course after he passed the Class 12 examination with 68 percent marks from a college in the district head quarterstown of Rayagada. He cleared the commerce degree programme this year with distinction. "I used to help my father inagricultural work during my school days. I had never thought I would ever be able to study in a B-school. It has become possible only because of KISS,"he said. Miniaka's two elder brothers, one of whom has a bachelor's degree, are engaged in agricultural work. "My future plan is to help poor students of our community, he said. Source : India colleges URL : www.examhook.com

Cut-offs revised for IIT admissions:

HYDERABAD: Only those students who are among the top 20 percentilers in the Intermediate Public Examination (IPE) while considering all the subjects would be eligible to take admission in the IITs in the country this year. This means that a general category student would have to score 437 marks or above out of 530 to become eligible.

 Earlier, the top 20 percentile criteria took into account only the marks scored in Maths, Physics and Chemistry. But the authorities have decided to take into account all the subjects now. Following this, sources in the Board of Intermediate Education detailed the cut-off marks for students of different categories. While it would be 457 for general category students, it would be 428, 387 and 396 for OBC, SC and ST candidates respectively.

In percentile scores, general category students, who get 79.63 percentile, will qualify for admissions. Percentiles required for other categories are 79.607 for SCs, 79.55 for STs, 79.69 for OBC and 79.68 for differently-abled category. A total of 1.5 lakh candidates had written the JEE-Advanced examination on June 2.

Sources from the secondary education department said that officials calculated the top 20 percentile as several requests were coming from parents and students asking for the same. "The document is, however, not final as the actual calculations are to be done by IIT-Kanpur which is in charge of conducting the examination. IIT-Kanpur will announce the results," an official said.

The rule under which intermediate marks are taken into account while fixing the eligibility criteria for students was introduced this year. Till last year, only performance of candidates in the competitive examination (JEE) was considered.

Source by: Indian Colleges.

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