CBSE XII PHYSICS: Changes in Syllabus this year

This year the pattern and syllabus have gone some changes this year.

CHANGES IN THE PATTERN OF PAPER 
   The paper will have fewer questions this year. Number of questions will be 26 instead of 29 last year. There will be more weight given to application based questions in the examination. The breakdown of the questions is:

• Five one mark questions
• Five two marks questions
• Twelve three marks questions
• One four marks Value based question
• Three five marks questions.

CHANGES IN THE PHYSICS SYLLABUS

New Additions

• Addition supplementary material has been issued covering Internet, Mobile Telephony and GPS basics.
• Basic Idea about FM and difference between AM and FM.

Deletions

• Van de Graff Generator
• Human Eye and defects
• Production and detection of AM waves
• Transistor use as an oscillator and as a switch

But again I will advice just to read these deleted topics also as still they might ask questions from them. These deleted topics have been cross checked with last year syllabus but still I fear that questions may come as even the latest reading material issued by KVs also have questions on them

Maharashtra back to CET for engineering from next year

The state government is most likely to withdraw its participation from the Joint Entrance Exam (Main) conducted by the Centre for admissions to the state's engineering colleges. Minister for higher and technical education Vinod Tawde announced the state's plans to conduct its own common entrance test (CET) for engineering admissions from 2016. The decision, once implemented, will be a relief to more than 1 lakh students, who seek admissions to engineering seats in the state. Prior to 2014, the state was conducting its own test. 

Tawde made the statement while interacting with the media in Vile Parle. He said, "It is not possible to make any changes this year as forms for JEE (Main) have already been filled. But from next year, I have suggested that the state conduct its own CET for engineering admissions." Elaborating on reasons for the decision, he said, "There is a big lobby of private coaching institutes which charges students over Rs 2.5 lakh to coach students for JEE (Main), which is based on CBSE syllabus. If the state conducts its own CET, based on state board syllabus, it will help students from rural areas." 

Parents and private engineering colleges' associations have been long seeking the shift from JEE (Main) to CET. "For our students, coping with the vast JEE (Main) syllabus was difficult. Also, engineering aspirants have to focus on their scores for class XII and JEE (Main)," said Subhash Joshi, former professor of Patkar College in Goregaon. 
Tawde said the government will continue to give 50% weightage to class XII scores and 50% to CET scores instead of the JEE (Main). 

Officials from the technical education department said if the state goes back to its own CET, it should have a common MHT-CET. "If medical and engineering entrance tests will be held by the state, a combined test is better," said an official. "Students then will not have to take the physics and chemistry tests twice." 
COURTESY: TIMES OF INDIA

JEE MAIN: Applicants can correct their academic details again in month of March

Applicants of JEE Main can correct their academic details again in the month of March, 2015. Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has issued a notice in this regard, according to which the applicants will be able to make correction in their academic details including Board name and Class 12 roll number, while downloading the admit card. The applicants who could not fill the board roll number of class 12th in their JEE (Main) application form, must ensure to fill it at the time of downloading the admit card of JEE Main-2015. Link for downloading the JEE Main-2015 admit card expected to available from March 1st, 2015.
Only those applicants who are writing their board exam in 2015 will be able to avail the facility of entering the roll number. However, correction in academic details can be made by all applicants. But, candidates will be allowed to submit class 12th roll number and rectify their academic detail only during downloading the admit card.
In January, 2015 (from January 19th to 31st, 2015) candidates were also given an opportunity to correct the discrepancies in application form and uploaded images. Now, applicants must take care that corrections can be made only in the academic details. Incase if a candidate failed to submit their academic details in stipulated format.
Joint Entrance Examination Main(JEE Main) is an all India common entrance examination which is conducted by the CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education).JEE (Joint Entrance Examination) is being conducted into two parts, JEE-Main and JEE-Advanced. JEE-Advanced is conducted for admission in IITs and ISM, Dhanbad. JEE-Main is conducted for the admission in NITs, IIITs, Centrally/State Funded Universities.

 

Courtesy: JagranJosh

CBSE XII PHYSICS MOCK PAPER

To help you get familiar with the new pattern this year I will be publishing a mock test paper based strictly on the latest guidelines of CBSE on 8 Feb'2015. Since I can't upload pdf over here please send me your request with your academic details on siddharth@yourssid.com.

JEE exams witness a drop of 52,500 students this year

Around 13.035 lakh students have registered for Joint Entrance Test, Main (JEE Main-2015), the first leg of the two-stage examination process for engineering admissions, scheduled in April.

However, there is a drop of around 52,500 students compared to last year when around 13.56 lakh students registered for exam.

The last day for registration for JEE (Main) was on December 27, but the dates were extended up to January 10 for aspirants from Manipur. The state had recently joined the nationallevel exam.

JEE Main, an all-India engineering entrance exam is conducted by the Central Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (CBSE) for admission to centrally funded engineering institutions like National Institute of Technology (NIT) and others.

It is also the first screening test for IIT admissions.

While there has been a constant increase in number of candidates since 2012  this is the first time the number has dropped.

“Poor quality of faculty in the engineering colleges and increase in job opportunities in other streams could be the reasons for decrease in the number of people registering for JEE Main,” said an IIT aspirant.

However, in Maharashtra, for the academic year 2014-15, more than 40% of engineering seats remained vacant, according to data presented by the state’s higher and technical education minister during the recent winter session.

GT Thampi, principal, Thadomal Shahani College of Engineering, Bandra said, “This trend seems temporary. The interest in engineering education is decreasing because of the higher fees charged in engineering institute compared to other courses. However, placements in engineering institutes have suffered leaving many engineers unemployed.”

Source: Hindustan Times

IIST Admission Announcement

JEE MAIN FORM CORRECTION DATE

As per the information available on official website the students can
make correction in the particular and if intimated should also remove
image discrepancies.

Image Discrepancy :

The images uploaded by the candidates in their application form are being verified by the CBSE and in case of any discrepancy in the image(s), the SMS  and e-mail is being sent to the candidates to re-upload the image(s).  This process may take about one month so the candidates should wait  for SMS/e-mail. If no discrepancy is found in the images, no SMS/e-mail  will be sent to the candidates. Correction in Particulars The facility for correction in particulars of the application form, regarding the  mistakes committed by the candidates, will be available on the website during   19 - 31st January, 2015. This is the last and final chance for correction so  candidates should do the correction, only if required, very carefully.

How can be a one month Crash Course Sufficient for clearing IIT!!!

I came across a very relevant article on the Crash Course for IIT Jee on merinews.com.
The article I am pasting below:

The ad read like this. "Join us for one month crash course to clear IIT-JEE entrance.
Success guaranteed." I was bewildered to read this.
The pamphlets were given by someone at the school entrance to my son who is
writing the 12th board this time.

Being a parent, I was already worried, as being the state-board student and without
 a long-term preparation, his chances of cracking (even) the IIT Main is almost nil.
 Like me, most of the parents inTamil Nadu are waiting with bated breathe for the 
cut-off marks to be scored by their wards to enter into the Anna 
University-affiliated colleges (one of the top ten at least) with the stream of their 
choice.

In Chennai (I am sure, there must be pretty much same situation in other cities too),
 big to small-time institutes have started to woo students (and parents) with their
"Crash Courses" which they would start after the board exams. However, whether
 a student from state board or CBSE, will this short time is enough for him to
crack the most prestigious entrance exam?

In Chennai, much to the disappointment of some of these institutes, the 12^th board annual
 exam pattern has been changed (for 2015 March). Instead of computer science, one of the 
core subjects Physics will be the last exam this time.

Earlier, once the Maths exam was over, these institutes used to begin their crash courses soon
after as Computer Science, which used to be the last exam, was not considered for cut-off mark
calculation by Anna University affiliated colleges for engineering admission.

If this is not enough, this year the IIT entrance exam has been propound to April 10-11 for
 Chennai circle. For state board students eying for IIT entrance, they will be writing their
last exam on March 26, 2015. Which means these students will have only two weeks to
prepare for IIT entrance!

Many of the IIT coaching centres have already taken advance money from parents in Chennai
 by giving assurances that students will be prepared well ahead of IIT entrance date. But the
 change in the exam pattern has thrown the spanner in their works.

Some of the institutes are putting a brave face telling parents that they will increase the daily
 coaching time to prepare the students. But will this one month crash course help students to
 clear even the preliminary round of IIT entrance? Across the country, students prepare for
 more than two years for IIT and even then, many of them don't clear it.

Since there is a vast difference between the state board and CBSE syllabus, it is my presumption
that unless a child, who is studying state board syllabus, keeps a track of the extra portion in the
 CBSE under a given topic, it is pretty much difficult to clear the first level that is IIT Mains to
 enter into NITs.

How these institutes are going to prepare students within two or three weeks for the most
prestigious and difficult entrance examination, only time will tell.

http://www.merinews.com/article/how-can-be-a-one-month-crash-course-sufficient-to-crack-iit-jee/15903374.shtml&cp

MY TAKE: With so much money coming into this lucrative coaching business which presently
 is valued at $23.7 billion growing at 35% pa from last five years the people are leveraging 
too much.

The management and marketing people are getting too unrealistic and promising even more
 than what Mr. Modi did it during the elections.

Cracking IIT by a one month crash course is a classic example of "Ganje ko kanghi bechna".

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