JEE results 2013: Students from underprivileged background crack entrance exam

28 of the 30 studentsfrom Bihar's Super 30 free coaching centre cracked the Indian Institute ofTechnology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE). Abhishek Kumar son of amechanic cleared the prestigious engineering exam. Abhishek aspires to becomean electrical engineer, a trait that runs in his genes. Others students of Super30 like Bhanu Pratap son of Rampyare Pratap, a poor labourer from Uttar Pradeshalso cleared the exam. Pranav Kumar fromSamastipur 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 theface of odds". When Ankit Kumar fromVaishali district in Bihar lost his father, a lineman in the telephonedepartment, in a road accident last year, his life seemed to come to astandstill. "I came to know ofSuper 30 and cleared its screening test. Here, I seemed to have found my newfather," he said. Shivangi Gupta, daughterof magazine vendor in Deha, 50 km from Kanpur, saw acute hardship from herchildhood as her father Viresh Chandra Gupta struggled to make both ends meet. "I was provided allhelp 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 hisschool fees. "Today my son is set to go to IIT," said a proudYasmeen. Santosh Kumar's fatherSanjeev 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 tobuy him new clothes and books. But when god has brought him this far, he willtake care of his future also. I am a driver and don't even know what IITis," Mallik said. A proud Afsar NathMishra, a Sanskrit teacher and priest from Banka, is proud that his daughterPreeti Kumari will be an engineer. "She will be our support when we areold," Mishra said. Source: Indian Colleges 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

IIT-JEE 2013: Diploma students not required give entrance exam

Candidates who want lateral entry into an Engineering degree do not need to sit for JEE or any entrance exam. The rule applies to candidates who have appeared for various polytechnic or engineering diploma programme from various State Board of Technical Education and applied for JEE (Main) examination. Candidates should have completed Engineering, Architecture or Pharmacy Diploma programmes from an AICTE-approved institutes with 45 percent to be elgible for the second year of a  4-year degree Engineering or Pharmacy and 5-year Architecture programme through lateral entry. Such a candidate need not give any entrance examination. If a diploma level candidate wishes to be admitted to first year of 4-year degree Engineering/Pharmacy or 5-year Architecture programme, then he is eligible on the basis of class 12 Certificate. Any polytechnic/engineering diploma holder candidate has passed Class 12 also from a Board between year 2011 to 2013, he/she should immediately update his/her class 12th information on the JEE website http://jeemain.nic.in through this link Candidates who wish to take lateral entry need the below criteria to avoid taking JEE: - Class 12 result - Roll Number - Year of Passing Source: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

OJEE entrance exam 2013: Counselling commences today

The Odisha Joint Entrance exam OJEE counselling has commenced. The counselling will take place from June 10-29. The exam was conducted on May 12, 2013. The first phase of counselling will be conducted from June 10 to 29. OJEE 2013 is the last state level test as from 2014 it will be part of level pre-admission test for admission in professional courses. Admissions in engineering, MBA, MCA, pharmacy and architecture courses in the state are done on the basis of OJEE. It is expected that about  one lakh students are expected to appear in the test. The government has also taken a decision to offer integrated and dual degrees in management and engineering programmes from the upcoming academic session. Students shall be able to directly enroll themselves for courses such as BTech and MBA or BTech and MTech. Source:INDIAN COLLEGES. URL : www.examhook.com