IIT- JEE 2013: ISC students need to score 83.8:

ISC students who have scored at least 83.8% are eligible for an IIT seat. The students will be required to clear both the main and advanced levels of Joint Entrance Exam (JEE). JEE Advanced was conducted by the Joint Admission Board (JAB) for admission to IITs on June 2 across India.  Around 1.5 lakh selected candidates were appeared in JEE Advanced 2013. According to the students appeared for the exam, JEE Advanced was tougher than expected. Students found mathematics section lengthy and tricky. However, Physics and Chemistry seemed to be relatively simpler.  JEE Advanced’s new method negative marking scheme and format surprised students. Certain questions had negative marking and others did not. In both the papers, equal weightage were given to the three sections- Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics.  A student could score a maximum of 60 in each subject in each paper. Thus, the total credits for either of the papers were 180. Both three-hour papers totalled 360 marks, lower than previous years when the total was above 400. The original cut off marks will be published after declaring JEE Advanced 2013 Result. The results of the JEE Advanced 2013 are expected to be declared on June 23, 2013. SOURCE : Indiacolleges URL : www.examhook.com

Most school toppers want to become engineer:

PATNA: City boy Avinash Mohak, a student of St Michael's High School (SMHS), Patna, scored 98.4% in the science stream. Mohak, who aims to become an engineer following in the footsteps of his father Bipin Bihari, has cleared JEE Mains, 2013 and said he did not expect to score so high. "I had expected to score well but not so high. I used to study 6-8 hours daily," said an elated Avinash who was a computer student. Science student Aishwarya Krishna of SMHS had expected to score well considering the number of hours she put in studies, but she hadn't thought of scoring 97.8%. Daughter of a bank manager, Prafulla Chaudhary, she wants to become a chemical engineer as chemistry is her favourite subject. "I'm preparing for JEE Advance, 2013 and am confident of making it," said Aishwarya who has also kept her options open for BITS Pilani. Source:THE TIMES OF INDIA URL : www.examhook.com

IIT entrance eligibility cut-off placed at 78.2%:

MUMBAI: IIT aspirants from CBSE Class XII have to score at least 78.2% to be in the Top 20 percentile of candidates for entrance exam eligibility. They must have also qualified in JEE (Main) exam to be able to appear for JEE (Advanced), to be held on June 2. The CBSE announced the cut-off score on Monday. With the two-tier exam process, students who have qualified in JEE (Main) will be eligible to appear for JEE (Advanced) provided they fall in the Top 20 percentile in their respective boards. While the cut-off for the general category of students is 391, that for students in the OBC category is 389, and 350 and 338 for SC and ST categories, respectively. Source:THE TIMES OF INDIA URL : http://examhook.com/jee_mains.aspx