Saturday, September 27, 2014

AIPMT 2015 DATE ANNOUNCED

CBSE has announced the date for AIPMT 2015.

AIPMT 2015 will be held on MAY 3, 2015. 

The eligibility conditions, syllabus, pattern, etc.will remain similar to
AIPMT 2014 as notified by the Medical Council of India which is
available on website www.aipmt.nic.in.

JEE ADVANCED 2015 DATE ANNOUNCED

IIT BOMBAY, the organising institute of JEE ADVANCED 2015 has announce the date of JEE Advanced 2015.

JEE ADVANCED 2015 will be on MAY 24,2015.

Two papers of three hours duration will be taken.

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

TENTATIVE DATES for JEE ADVANCED 2015

In the first hint of notifications regarding JEE ADVANCED 2015 JEE site has started displaying tentative dates.
It reads as follows

Announcement of examinaton schedule on the web: September 15-30, 2014

 Issue of short advertisement on the web: September Last Week

 Uploading of the Information Brochure on the web: October First Week

 Issue of short advertisement in the print media: October 1-15, 2014


One thing is clear that IIT BOMBAY is the organizing institute this time.

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

On Popular Demand, IIT eases the board pecentile Norms

he Indian Institutes of Technology have eased the eligibility criteria for admissions, opening their doors to students who have scored at least 75% in class XII, even if they are not among the top 20% performers of their boards, provided they crack the entrance exam. This will be in addition to the top 20-percentile criterion, adopted two years ago at the behest of then HRD minister Kapil Sibal, the IIT Council decided in its meeting in Chennai on Monday. 

In other words,   an aspirant, who has cracked the entrance test, should either figure in the top 20% performers of the Class XII Board examination or score at least 75%, to be eligible for admission to IITs. In the case of SC/ST candidates, the cut-off will be 70% in board examination. The change, however, will not apply retrospectively. 
SOURCE: ET

Saturday, September 20, 2014

75% marks in class 12th board exams may be the new eligibility criteria for the IITs.

The controversial ‘percentile system’ that decides students' eligibility for admissions into the IITs is set to change with the Joint Admission Board (JAB) of the premier technical institutions recommending ‘top 20 percentile or 75% marks in the state board examinations, whichever is lower,’ for a seat in the IITs.
The recommendations came in a meeting of Standing Committee of IIT Council, a sub committee of the IIT council on Saturday, sources in the government said.
The final decision will be taken in the meeting of IIT council, later this month.
The top 20 percentile system introduced during the UPA regime and under former HRD minister Kapil Sibal in 2013, required successful candidates to be among the top-20 percentile scorers in Class 12 exams of their respective boards.
This rule had created a controversy as there was huge variation in the cut off marks of different boards and had resulted in 80 students mostly from Andhra Pradesh missing a seat in IITs despite qualifying the entrance examination, as they had failed to figure in the top 20 percentile.
The cut-off (to figure in top-20 percentile list) for Andhra students had shot up to 91.8 per cent, the highest in the country, Tamil Nadu, at 90.9% and Kerala 85.2%.
The modified rule, when accepted by the IIT council, will benefit students who score 75% marks in the board examination as they will qualify the eligibility criteria of the IIT irrespective of the variations in the percentile cut off.
The new system was introduced in 2013 to make students give more focus on their class 12 board examinations, which was widely ignored by IIT aspirants who, according to the earlier rule just had to score 60%.  
The 20 percentile system, after it was introduced saw rise in cut off from 81.6% in 2013 to 83.2%. For Andhra Board this increased from 91.8% to 93.03%, for Karnataka board from 86% to 93%, for ISC from 83.2% to 85%, Tamil Nadu board from 90.9% to 91.7%.

Wednesday, September 03, 2014

Recommended Books for JEE Preparation

Well I will start with my recommended list of Physics books for JEE Preparation.



Principles of Physics by Halliday
Well this books need no introduction perhaps the most recommended book for Physics courses worldwide. I have seen numerous foreign authors books written on this book's lines. With Indian edition it is not that costly.You can buy it using the link given below.


Concepts of Physics by H.C.Verma
This is the best Indian author book available in the market from last 2 decades. No other book has been able to match this work of Prof. Verma. The language is simply , book's content are also not bulky. Objectives and subjectives both questions are nicely graded to get one prepared for IIT Entrance examinations.
This is a "MUST HAVE " book.You can buy it using the link given below


Sears and Zemanskys University Physics with Modern Physics
This is also a very standard text almost matches the Halliday. You can have either one of them or if more interested you can have both. This is also not very costly nowadays. You can buy it using the link given below



Physics for Scientists and Engineers By Serway
This is not that talked about book but I personally felt it to be much better than other famous foreign author's books. I rate it above them. Indian Edition for this is now also available and is cheaper then the above listed books. You can buy it using the link given below

Tuesday, September 02, 2014

88% crack IIT-JEE in their first attempt

The entrance exam to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) has never had so many candidates who cracked the gruelling exam on the first attempt: 88% candidates qualified in the first shot this year.

Last year, 69.6% of aspirants qualified after taking the IIT-JEE (advanced) for the first time. Another 27.2% had to take the test again before they could walk past the gates of the IITs. This year, merely 12% students qualified after taking the exam for the second time. Since the last two years, the IITs have only allowed candidates two attempts.

"We are realizing that by restricting the number of attempts, the IITs are getting students who are very well-trained. I am not sure if it is putting more pressure on students, but students are a lot better prepared," says an IIT director. Slicing the statistics further shows that of the 9,795 students currently sitting in the first-year classrooms across IITs, the count of those who cracked the JEE (advanced) in the first attempt stands at 6,725 (68.65%).
Data till 2007 shows about 10% of the total aspirants were taking the JEE for the third time (or more). But with more students taking the test seriously, JEE-2006 saw the share fall as 43.5% candidates qualified in their first try, as compared to JEE-2005 in which only 28.49% got through the first time around.

In fact, a dean from IIT-Madras believes these statistics are a result of the changing profile of those who are making it to the IITs. "Students who are now walking into the IITs are mostly from cities and from middle-class households who can afford to pay for tuitions," he says.

Most of those who qualified—20,636 or 76%—are from urban centres, 3,862 (14.22%) are from towns, and 2,654 (9.77%) are from villages. Again, making for a sharp economic divide on campus, two large cohorts of students in the current batch in the IITs are from the upper-middle classes and from the lower-income groups.

This year, 3,586 or 13.2% who qualified disclosed that the annual family income is over Rs 8 lakh. Three years ago, data released by the colleges revealed that about 9.3% of the qualified candidates had an annual family income of over Rs 10 lakh.

Equally stunning is the jump of students with family income of less than Rs 1 lakh: from just 1.5% three years ago to 18.6% this time. But IITs are a melting pot where differences vanish in class, said another IIT director. "What has also happened is that the Sixth Pay Commission has had a bearing on many government employees' salaries and, hence, we have many more students in the higher pay bracket," explains an IIT-Madras dean.

Like last year, most students came from homes where parents were in government service, followed by those from a business background. Yet, most candidates who qualified declared that they did not attend a coaching class to get a leg-up in their performance. Information collected by the tech colleges reveals that close to half of those who make their mark in the entrance test prepare for the exam on their own.

The IITs ask every student who takes the JEE whether he/she prepared for the test "on his own or via other methods", and add that their selection would be based on the marks they have scored, irrespective of their preparation method.

Data provided by candidates shows that about 53% students said they studied on their own. Their share has altered over the years. Data analyzed by the JEE cell reveals that while 60% of the students who made it to the seven old IITs in 2007 opted for some form of coaching, in 2008, this figure dropped to 45%.
Source: TOI