Candidates from Andhra Pradesh need to score 91.8%

Candidates from Andhra Pradesh need to score 91.8%:

Candidates from Andhra Pradesh need to score 91.8% in their state board examinations to get the admission to the IITs as well as clear the IIT- JEE ( Mains and Advanced).

Students from Tamil Nadu need to score 90.9% while students from Kerala require 85.2%.

State wise lowest cut-offs

- Tripura (53.2%)

- Jharkhand (56.2%)

- Assam (56.6%)

- Uttarakhand (57.8%)

Cut-offs according to the boards

CBSE cut-off--81.6%

ICSE -83.2%

UP -73%

Bihar - 65%

West Bengal - 61.2%

Candidates seeking admission to IITs are also facing a tough situation as they might have performed well in the entrance examination but not got the required cut-off in their board exams.

The cut-off marks for admissions to Indian Institutes of Technology have been increased due to the top-20 percentile norm introduced by the Centre.

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.

There are five subjects which will be used for normalization. The subjects to be considered for normalization include-

Physics, Mathematics, any one of the subjects from Chemistry, Biology, Biotechnology and Computer Science, One language and any subject other than the above four subjects.

Source:Indian Colleges

Engineering graduates prefer to study abroad IIT admissions 2013:

 Engineering graduates prefer to study abroad IIT admissions 2013:

This year a trend has been noticed that students have skipped IIT counselling and have opted to study abroad or at renowned institutes.

The students have skipped the counselling as they have got an opportunity to study abroad as well as have got their preferred subject.

About 96 students did not attend the IIT-Kharagpur admission counselling this year.

IIT Kharagpur has a total of 1341 undergraduate seats.

Computer science engineering and electrical engineering are some of the subjects which have emerged as most popular.

The second round of admissions began on July 10.

Candidates from Andhra Pradesh need to score 91.8% in their state board examinations to get the admission to the IITs as well as clear the IIT- JEE ( Mains and Advanced).

Source:Indian Colleges

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Delhi constable's son clears IIT entrance exam

Delhi constable's son clears IIT entrance exam:

A Delhi Police constable's 18-year-old son has obtained the seventh rank in the OBC category in the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Joint Entrance Examination 2013.

Ashish Kumar Yadav, son of bomb detection squad member Radhey Shyam, cleared the exam without taking any coaching lessons, soon after scoring 82 percent marks in Class 12 from Haryana, a police officer said.

Ashish credited his parents and teachers for his achievement. His father said the young man used to study four to five hours every day.

There are 9,885 IIT seats on offer. Of these, 4,844 are for the general category students.

Satyam Kumar, a Bihar farmer's son who is just 13-years old, has cleared the fiercely competitive Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) for which 150,000 candidates had appeared this year.

Satyam, who passed his class 12 exam last year, secured an impressive all-India rank of 679.

"We are proud of him. He has done something special at this age," Satyam's father Sidhnath Singh, a farmer, told IANS.

IIT-JEE (Advanced) results for admission into IITs were declared.

According to IIT-JEE website, Sahal Kaushik from Delhi was the youngest person to have cracked the exam in 2010 at the age of 14. But now this record is held by Satyam.

Source:Indian Colleges

Joy of cracking IIT is short lived for underprivileged students

Joy of cracking IIT is short lived for underprivileged students:

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

IIT- JEE(Advanced) 2013: Online counseling ends

IIT- JEE(Advanced) 2013: Online counseling ends :

The online counseling for IIT- JEE(Advanced) 2013 will conclude today June 30. 

Students are required to select their course and institutes.

The seat allotments will be announced on July 2. Candidates will also need to verify their documents from July 4 to July 8.

The academic session will commence from July 27.

Total candidates qualified under Common Merit List are 15947. Candidates who have scored aggregate marks of 156 (upto CML Rank 7436) and above are being asked to fill choices for courses at IITs and ISM, Dhanbad where the total General Category seats available are only 4841.

The cut-off marks for admissions to Indian Institutes of Technology have been increased due to the top-20 percentile norm introduced by the Centre.

Source: Indian Colleges