IIT Indore to get permanent campus soon

IIT Indore to get permanent campus soon:

IIT- Indore will soon get a permanent campus on a 500 acre of land. The institute will be located nearly 35 kilometres away from the city.

IIT Indore has been functioning from the building of Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) since its inception in 2007

The campus will be built at a cost of Rs 608.4 crore in 30 months.

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Indore has asked for pre-qualification applications for designing and building of the campus. The last date for submitting the application is August 26.

IIT-I's permanent campus is proposed to come up on 500 acre of land in Simrol, nearly 35 kilometres away from the city at an estimated cost of Rs 608.4 crore in 30 months.

The company will get the contract by the institute will need to develop infrastructure. Infrastructure includes academic buildings, hostel building, faculty and staff housing, indoor sports centre, ancillary buildings along with external development and all engineering services at the permanent campus of the institute.

Source : Indiancolleges

No change in IIT-JEE entrance exam pattern next year: IIT Joint Admission Board

No change in IIT-JEE entrance exam pattern next year: IIT Joint Admission Board:

NEW DELHI: The IIT Joint Admission Board (JAB) at a crucial meeting here today agreed to continue with the same pattern for the IIT-JEE examination for one more year. 

The board made a detailed review of the new pattern of the two-tier Joint Entrance Examination, which was implemented this year, and was of the view that the pattern should be continued next year as well for a closer assessment of the system, sources said. 

JAB comprises heads of the various campuses of the premier technological institute. 

The meeting came in the wake of reports that there could be some changes in eligibility criteria for admission to IITs. 

According to sources, some of the IIT directors had met HRD Minister M Pallam Raju here last week to discuss a proposal to ease percentile cut-offs for entry into an IIT. 

IIT aspirants in Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, and those belonging to national boards like CBSE, had to contend with high cut-offs this year under the new format for admissions. The cut-offs for AP and TN were above 90 per cent this year. 

Sources said that since the issue was being legally challenged, JAB today decided to maintain the status quo. 

JAB is expected to meet again on Sept. 15 at the Kharagpur IIT where the matter would be discussed once again. Meanwhile, the IIT council is slated to meet on Sept. 3. 

The meeting today is also understood to have decided on next year's examinations. The IIT-JEE (Mains) could be held on April 6 and IIT-JEE (Advanced) on May 25, sources said.

Source: economictimes-indiatimes

No change in 20-percentile rule for IIT-2014 entrance test

No change in 20-percentile rule for IIT-2014 entrance test:

MUMBAI: The 'controversial' percentile system that determines students' eligibility for admissions to the premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) will stay as is for the 2014 exam.

On Sunday, members of the IITs' Joint Admission Board (JAB) jointly resolved to conduct the JEE-Advanced as it was in 2013. The exam, however, might be advanced by a week and be conducted on May 25.

The JAB meeting was held to review the 2013 exam and to propose any changes, if need be. While the new policy, introduced in 2013, requires students to clear the two-tier exam—JEE-Main and JEE-Advanced, successful candidates also have to be among the top-20 percentile scorers in Class XII exams of their respective boards. A proposal to relax the 20 percentile cut-off was under consideration. At least 79 candidates who cleared both the levels in the 2013 exam could not secure seats as they scored less than the 20 percentile cut-off in their boards. Several of these candidates were from Andhra Pradesh. A related matter is pending in the Supreme Court. A source said that JAB maintained the status quo as the issue was being legally challenged.

A JAB member said there was not enough data to back the "allegation" that the system was wrong, though there was a proposal to tweak it. "Students who were not selected despite clearing both levels were not eligible as they scored less than the cut-off of their boards. There was no mistake in the system. If there are two consecutive years where we experience a problem and there is data to back the claim, then we might think of revising it," said the official.

The JAB had met to discuss primarily the eligibility norms, the exam date and its format. The IIT Council, which will meet on September 3, will have to pass the JAB's Sunday resolution. The next JAB meeting will be held on September 15.

The IITs were also considering shortlisting the top two lakh candidates, instead of 1.5 lakh, from the JEE-Main. However, that too will not change. "There is no need to shortlist more students as at the end only around 10,000 actually get selected. The rest get disqualified," said the official. There will not be any change in the pattern of the test too. "Most of the members felt we should allow the current multiple choice questions to continue without changes at least for the 2014 exam. The 2013 exam was conducted well on schedule," said JEE-Advanced 2013 chairman HC Gupta from IIT-Delhi. IIT-Kharagpur will be conducting the 2014 exam.

Source:TimesofIndia

IIT board may review entrance test format

IIT board may review entrance test format:

IIT board may review entrance test format

Posted Date :24/08/2013

NEW DELHI: IITs' Joint Admission Board (JAB), which is to meet over the weekend, is likely to revisit the format of JEE (Advanced). R K Shevgaonkar, director of IIT-Delhi, told TOI, "We could look into the present criterion of taking only top 20 percentile of successful class XII students from each Board. Till last year the standard class XII cut-off across India was 60%. We could revisit it." The criterion of top 20 percentile of successful class XII students resulted in wide variation of cut-offs across Boards. Shevgaonkar said nothing is finalized yet. Many suggestions are being discussed. One suggestion is to have a fixed cut-off for large Boards and for smaller ones the 20 percentile formula could be used. "IIT Senate that is likely to meet on September 3 would look into the entire gamut of change that can be brought in. But this year's JEE (Advanced) has thrown few issues that needs to be discussed," he said. Shevgaonkar says there is a need to relook at the whole system. For instance, this year only 1.5 lakh students who were successful in JEE (Main) could appear for JEE (Advanced). "Question is should we look at 1.5 lakh students. If number becomes small should we make the examination subjective," he says. Within the IIT system there is a strong opinion that the new criterion of 20 percentile, which became contentious, could have been avoided with a firmer criterion. Due to wrong calculation of 20 percentile cut-off by state Boards, especially Andhra Pradesh, 79 students could not get into the IITs despite having the right score in JEE (Advanced). Andhra Board calculated the percentile on the basis of total number of students who appeared in class XII examination in the state whereas it had to be done on the basis of number of students who passed. As a result, many students suffered. Cut-off per cent increased when percentile was calculated on the basis of number of students who passed their class XII examination. Source : TimesofIndia

EAMCET 2013: Protests hit engineering college counselling in Andhra Pradesh

EAMCET 2013: Protests hit engineering college counselling in Andhra Pradesh:-

Counselling for admissions to engineering colleges in Rayalaseema and Andhra regions of Andhra Pradesh was hit for the second consecutive day due to the ongoing strike against the central government's decision to bifurcate the state.

The certificate verification at the counselling centres in Seemandhra, as the two regions are collectively known, was affected as officials boycotted their duties.

Majority of the 34 centres in Seemandhra were shut due to the strike by government employees. Polytechnic college teachers posted at the centres boycotted their duties in response to the call given by their association.

EAMCET officials said counselling could not be held at 16 centres in Seemandhra on the second day. They said the students could get their certificates verified at any centre in the state.

The problems of students were compounded due to a strike by workers of state-owned Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC). All APSRTC buses remained off the roads for the eighth consecutive day.

According to officials, only 5,500 out of 15,000 students turned up Monday, the first day for verification of their certificates. They said 3,400 students in Telangana and 2,100 students in Seemandhra verified their certificates.

The counselling was smooth in all 22 centres in Telangana, including six in Hyderabad. Over 200 students from Seemandhra also got their certificates verified at centres in Telangana.

State council for higher education said students who could not get their certificates verified due to ongoing protests in Seemandhra can do so on any day till Sep 1 . The council is going ahead with the counselling on the directions of the high court and despite appeals from some sections in Seemandhra to postpone it in view of the political turmoil.

A little over two lakh students, including 75,000 in Seemandhra, had qualified for admission to engineering colleges in the state.

However, due to the ongoing protests over state's bifurcation, about 40,000 are believed to have left to neighbouring states for pursuing engineering courses. Every year, many top rankers usually opt for institutes like Indian Institutes of Information Technology and deemed universities in other states but their numbers this year has gone up because of the ongoing turmoil, which has delayed the counselling.

Lok Satta President Jayaprakash Narayan appealed to all political parties to ensure smooth conduct of counselling as it involves students' future. He found fault with the strike by the government employees, saying this has affected the citizen services.

Source : Indiancolleges

JEE Advanced 2013 Cutoff, Branch Predictor, Opening & Closing Ranks:

JEE Advanced 2013 Cutoff, Branch Predictor, Opening & Closing Ranks:

JEE Advanced 2013 Cut Off will be released after the completion ofadmission process and will be RELEASED HERE as soon as it is RELEASED.

Every year the JEE Governing Bodies decide the minimum marks whichmust be secured by a candidate in order to qualify the exam and thus to becalled for admission process. This score is called as cut off and will bedecided on the basis of number of candidates, annual intake, exam difficultylevel and last year's cutoffs. rank corresponding to JEE Advanced 2013Cutoff will be called as cutoff rank and will be the last rank to beincluded in final merit list.

Also, the JEE Advanced 2013 Opening and Closing Ranks willbe released after the admissions are over. Till then the candidates can referto cutoffs for last year to have an overall idea of cutoff ranks for variouscolleges and courses and fill choices for counseling with an informed guess. wehave assembled Previous Year college cutoffs and all the candidates can referto them in order to have an overall idea.

Steps to check JEE Advanced Opening and Closing Ranks:

·        You will be redirected to the page where you have to login usingyour Facebook Account and ALLOW ACCESS. Submit the required Details

·        The page with College and Branch Predictors Caption will open

·        Select "IIT Golden Report @Free" fromthe drop down menu.

·        Submit your JEE Advanced 2013 Rank to see the colleges andBranches you can get.

The JEE Advanced 2013 Cut Off for all category candidates is shownin the following table. Candidates having JEE Main 2013 scores equal to or morethan the cut off scores only; are eligible for JEE Advanced:

Category	Cut Off Marks
Common Merit List (CML)	113
OBC (Non – Creamy Layer)	70
Scheduled Castes	50
Scheduled Tribes	45

The minimum score to limit the number of candidates called forcounseling. The candidates who score above that score will be called for counselingand admission process and who score below will not be allowed to appear in Counselingwill be called as JEE Advanced 2013 Cutoff.

The JEE Advanced 2013 Cut Off will be the minimum score which mustbe secured in order to be eligible for admission or to be included in finalmerit list of exam. NO notifications have been released by the exam organizingbodies yet and will soon be made available.

Till then the candidates can refer to the following cutoffs forthe academic year of 2012 - 13 and have an overall idea of the cutoff scores:

Category	Subject wise cut-off			Merit list cut-off marks
	Chemistry	Physics	Mathematics
GE	20	20	34	229
OBC	18	18	31	207
SC	10	10	17	119
ST	10	10	17	115
PD	10	10	17	115

With the introduction of JEE Advanced 2013, the Board had saidthat the pattern of JEE Advanced will be kept same to that of IIT JEE and hencethe JEE Advanced 2013 Cut Off is expected to be a MILD VARIANTof that of last year. The candidates whose exam score is equal to or more thanthis cutoff will be called for admission process and rest will be disqualified.

Every year, the governing bodies of JEE decide the minimum marksthat must be secured by a candidate in order to be included in final merit listwhich is called as Cut Off Score. Hence, the JEE Advanced 2013 Cut Off willbe the minimum score to be secured by a exam taker to be included in finalmerit list. This score is decided on the basis of last year's cutoff, examdifficulty level, number of exam takers, annual intake and other relatedparameters.

Candidates can also go for checking their exam scores with theanswer keys and then compare the approximate exam score with last year's cutoff till the JEE Advanced 2013 Cut Off is released. This willhelp the candidates to have an approximation of the final scenario ofadmissions. This comparison will also help candidates to see which courses andcolleges they can apply for. Thus, the cut off will help the candidates to makeeducated guesses and formulate their choice list in a far better manner.

The procedure that will be used for calculating the JEE Advanced2013 Cutoff Ranks and Marks is as follows:

·        Only the candidates, who have attempted both the papers will beconsidered for cutoff calculation.

·        The aggregate marks of the candidate will be the sum of the marksobtained by him/her in both – Paper 1 and Paper 2.

·        There will be separate merit lists for the candidates of NCL –OBC, ST and SC. JEE Advanced 2013 Cutoff Marks for them are as follows:

o    NCL – OBC: 9% in each subjectand 31.5% aggregate

o    SC and ST: 5% in each subjectand 17.5%  aggregate

·        Merit Lists for Physically Disabled Candidates:

PD Candidates of OBC (NCL), ST, GEN and SC categories will have aseparate merit list. JEE Advanced 2013 Cutoff for thesecandidates will be 5% in each subject and 17.5% in aggregate.

·        Merit list for Preparatory Course:

If the number of candidates in the merit lists of SC/ST/PD is lessthan 1.4 times the number of seats in every category, separate merit lists forthe Preparatory Course will be prepared.

The JEE Advanced 2013 Cutoff for this list willbe 2.5% in each subject and 8.75% in aggregate.

Source : engg.entrancecorner

5 mistakes students make while sitting for exams:

5 mistakes students make while sitting for exams:

There are some common mistakes that students make while sitting for exams due to which, in spite of being well prepared, they lose marks.

Let us have a look at some such common mistakes and how to rectify them:

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#1 Arriving late to the exam hall

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Most students are punctual on their exam day. However, some have a habit of being late everywhere.

This delay could mean that you may not be allowed to sit for the exam. Even if you are allowed to, your mind is not calm to start writing the paper immediately. So you may miss out on the precious minutes.

What you can do: Aim to arrive at least 30 minutes early to the exam venue. Plan your travel time, waiting time for transport and traffic, ticket queue accordingly.

Arriving well before time gives you time to settle down, calm yourself and prepare mentally for the exam.

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#2 Starting with the most difficult question

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Many students start writing as soon as the bell rings. They do not glance through the entire question sheet once.

This means that you may start with the most difficult question first. This puts you under mental stress. It could create a not-so-good impression to the examiner because of the quality of the answer.

Students also lose out on time and later realize that there is very little time left for rest of the questions. There is a rush to answer the other questions.

But as your mind is focused on that first difficult question, you may find it difficult to answer questions even though they are easy.  

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#3 Missing out important instructions

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It is a good idea to go through the entire question sheet before you begin. This gives you time to segregate between easy and difficult questions.

You can also read important notes or instructions given. If you missed these, then you may end up answering more questions than required.

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#4 Forgetting to answer questions

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Some students take the effort to scan the question paper first and begin with the easy questions leaving some to be answered at the end.

However, it may happen that you get stuck with difficult questions, leaving no time to return to the unanswered questions. This happens due to lack of planning.

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#5 Not checking the paper before submitting it

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Many students find this step unnecessary. What you do not realize is that you may missed out on something small such as drawing a graph or diagram or major, such as failing to notice one side of the question paper while flipping it over.

Checking the entire paper once after finishing it will help you notice such errors and if time permits, you also get a chance to attempt these questions.

Source: Indian-Colleges