How to select the right coaching institute for JEE/ NEET preparation?

The X CBSE exams are now over and the students aspiring to become Doctors/Engineers are in the process of zeroing in on the coaching institute they should opt for JEE/ NEET preparation. With so many advertisements and claims of different institutes, it has becoming a challenging task to sort out this issue.This short video is aimed to help them decide on this important subject.

Engineering Entrance Forms You Should Fill - 2019

This is the question everyone asks "Which exams I should appear in?"
Every year i write this answer to help you in deciding this crucial question. Here is the version for students aspiring for engineering admission in 2019.

CATEGORY 1:  Must Fill

A)  JEE: JEE is an all India common engineering entrance examination which is conducted for admission in various engineering colleges and courses all over the country.

JEE is being conducted in two parts, JEE-Main and JEE-Advanced.

JEE-Main exam is for admission in IIITs (Indian Institutes of Information Technology), NITs (National Institutes of Technology), CFTIs (Central Funded Technical Institute) and IIEST Shibpur, for admission to its dual degree programme.
Examination Pattern: JEE-Main Exam has two papers, Paper-1 and Paper-2. Candidates may opt for either or both of them. Both papers contain multiple choice questions.

·   Paper-1 is for admission in B.E./B.Tech.This  has 30 questions each of Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics.

·    Paper-2 is for admission in B.Arch and B.Planning .

From this year, this exam will be conducted by National Testing Agency and student can attempt it two times - first in January and second in April. the best of two scores will be used for merit list preparation. Forms for January attempt has already been filled.
For April attempt forms will be available between 08 Feb, 2019 - 07 Mar, 2019.

Official Website: www.jeemain.nic.in

JEE-Advanced is for admission in Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).The merit list is purely on basis of performance in JEE ADVANCED examination.Students who qualify JEE-Mains can appear for JEE-Advanced examination. Approximately 200,000 students qualify to appear for JEE-Advanced examination.

A candidate can attempt this exam a maximum of two times and that too in consecutive years.

Examination Pattern: It consists of 2 papers of three hour duration each taken in two shifts on same day. Both papers have equal number of questions of Physics, Chemistry and Maths. It is available in two languages- English and Hindi. Candidates have to attempt objective type (multiple choice) and numerical answer type questions that are designed to test comprehension, reasoning and analytical ability of candidates. Some sections carry negative marking also.

EXAMINATION DATE: 19 May 2019

Official website: http://jeeadv.ac.in/

Other Colleges taking admissions on basis of JEE ADVANCED 

Following are the colleges which gives admissions on basis of performance in JEE ADVANCED examination

1.      Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs)

To promote high quality scientific education, research and training, Ministry of HumanResource Development (MHRD), Government of India has set up six Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs). They offer a five year BS-MS Dual Degree program. It has three channels for admitting students

1.Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) Basic Science Stream

2.Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced)

3.State and Central Boards

Applications are invited in June month.

Official Website: http://www.iiseradmission.in/

2.      Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST)

 It is the first university in Asia to be solely dedicated to the study and research of outer space.It was inaugurated on 14 September 2007 by G. Madhavan Nair, the then Chairman of ISRO. IIST was set up by the Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) under the Department of Space, Government of India.It offers  three different courses in B.Tech were offered, namely B.Tech in Aerospace, Avionics and Physical Sciences. 

Admissions are based on performance in JEE ADVANCED. Forms and detailed advertisement is published around month of April.

Official Website: https://www.iist.ac.in/admissions/undergraduate

3.      Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology

 It is a training and education institute that gives technical and management training to the petroleum industry and was formally opened on July 2008. It has been accorded the Institute of National Importance status and admits undergraduate students from the rank list of students who have qualified JEE(Advanced) Examination.

Official website: http://www.rgipt.ac.in/

4.      Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Bachelor of Science (Research) Program is a new program offered from 2011. It is designed to serve as a launching pad for research and doctoral studies in science and technology. Major disciplines currently offered include Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Materials, Mathematics and Physics. Admissions are based on scores from the following national examinations: KVPY-SA, KVPY-SB, KVPY-SX/SB+2, JEE(Mains and Advanced), AIPMT.

Official website: http://www.iisc.ernet.in/ug/

Following are some prominent colleges which admit students on basis of JEE MAIN examination:

1.      IIIT HYDERABAD

 IIITH is one of the top Computer Science institutes of the country. The institute runs Computer Science courses and research projects and is focused on research. Admissions are based on performance in JEE MAIN Paper-1 examination. Also it admits students through  a seperate exam UGEE for itsdual degree programs.

Forms are generally filled around March/ April.

Official website: https://www.iiit.ac.in/

2.      IIIT Delhi/NSIT/DTU

Admissions to these institutes are done on basis of JEE MAIN rank. A separate Joint counseling is done for them. Separate forms are filled in June end.

Official website: http://www.jacdelhi.nic.in

3.      DAIICT, Gandhinagar

The institute's offers B.Tech program in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) .Admissions are done on basis of JEE MAIN. Separate forms are to be filled in May/June.

Official website: http://admissions.daiict.ac.in/pages/ug.html

4.    LNMIIT, Jaipur

       It is one of the better private colleges in India. Admissions are based on JEE MAIN Paper -1 Score. Applications are invited generally in March/April.

Official website: http://www.lnmiit.ac.in/

5.    NIRMA, Ahmedabad

Institute of Technology, NIRMA University admits students on basis of JEE MAIN examination. Applications are invited in June month.

Official website: http://www.nirmauni.ac.in/ITNU

There are also many other colleges which admits students on basis of JEE MAIN viz TIET Patiala, IIIT Bhubaneswar,etc.

B) BITSAT -Application are generally filled in Dec-Jan. For exact details visit
http://www.bitsadmission.com/bitsat/bitsatmain.htm


Also if your state is conducting seperate examination for engineering entrance, you must apply for them.
The other exams you can think of if you feel admission in above colleges will be a tough task for you you can apply in one or two of below mentioned examinations.

CATEGORY 2: OPTIONAL 

A)VITEEE- For admission in VIT. This year it will be in month of April and will be a computer based Test. The forms are already on their website.

B) SRMJEE : Forms are already available on their website

C)MANIPAL ENTRANCE TEST (MET-2019)-Forms will be available soon. LAST DATE TO APPLY IS 15 MARCH 2019
http://www.manipal.edu/admissions/indianadmissions/pages/howtoapply.aspx


D) COMEDK: This is one of the good exams for students who can't perform very well in JEE/ BISAT. Scoring here is not that tough plus you have some good college available through this exam.
Only issue is the delayed counselling. for details, visit their website.

Well in case you want to know more about exams and forms do feel free to contact me through your comments on the blog.

ALL THE BEST!!!

NITs SET TO GO IIT WAY

SOURCE:TELEGRAPH INDIA

The National Institutes of Technology may no longer give weightage to Class XII board marks while admitting BTech students from next year if the institutions and the government have their way.

An NIT director said the institutes, along with other centrally funded technical institutions (CFTIs) like the Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs), were more likely to admit students on the basis of their JEE Advanced score - like the IITs do.

"There will be no need for giving weightage to board marks," the director told this newspaper.

Under the existing system, the IITs admit students based on how they perform in the JEE Advanced, the second exam in the two-tier test after the CBSE-conducted JEE Main.

Over 12 lakh students appear for the JEE Main, but only the top two lakh are eligible to take the JEE Advanced.

While the IITs don't give weightage to board marks, aspirants need to score at least 75 per cent in their board exam or be among the top 20 percentile holders - irrespective of their performance in JEE Advanced - to be eligible for selection.

The NITs, IIITs and a few other engineering institutions - which don't follow any eligibility criteria but could introduce cut-offs once the weightage for board marks goes - have been admitting students on the basis of a 60:40 system. Under this system, 60 per cent weightage is given to the JEE Main score and 40 per cent to Class XII board marks.

The idea behind the weightage for board marks, introduced under the earlier government, was students would focus more on school education instead of private tuitions to crack entrance exams.

But two panels set up by this government, one headed by IIT Bombay director Devang Khakhar and another by Rajat Moona, director-general, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, had recommended scrapping the weightage for board marks while admitting students to the NITs from 2016.

The Moona committee found that the percentage of students taking private coaching had increased after the system of giving weightage to board marks was introduced.

The HRD ministry then set up another panel, headed by IIT Roorkee chairman Ashok Misra. In its report submitted last November, this committee, too, said the weightage given to board marks now for NIT admissions should be scrapped and there should be one engineering entrance test, possibly from 2018.

But aspiring engineers, this panel said, should have to clear a SAT-like National Aptitude Test to be eligible to appear for the entrance exam.

Sources in the HRD ministry said there was agreement among the IITs and other CFTIs that from 2017, students should be admitted based on how they did in their JEE Advanced.

The NIT director this paper spoke to said the JEE Main was likely to stay in 2017, but as a filter for the JEE Advanced.

The Mishra committee suggested that the government set up a national testing service (NTS) as an independent body to conduct the aptitude test, modelled on the SAT, held for admissions to US colleges.

HRD ministry sources said the NTS might be set up this year and start operating from 2018. The aptitude tests, they added, might be held more than once every year so that students can improve their performance.

NUMBER OF JEE ASPIRANTS SHRINKS BY OVER 1 LAKH!!

SOURCE: TIMES OF INDIA
The number of engineering aspirants registering for JEE (Main) has declined for the second year in a row. The numbers have fallen by almost a lakh this year compared to the 50,000 dip recorded last year. CBSE, which conducts the national-level joint entrance examination, received applications from 12.07 lakh aspirants last week. In 2015, 13.04 lakh students had registered for the test.

The fall was even steeper for Maharashtra, where the registrations have dropped by a third over last year. Maharashtra, however, has the highest number of applicants (1.63 lakh) in the country followed by Uttar Pradesh (1.50 lakh).

JEE (Main) is the qualifying exam for admissions to centrally-funded technical institutions such as NITs, IIITs and institutions in the participating states. Of the total numbers of students taking JEE (Main), the top 1.5 lakh are eligible to appear for JEE (Advanced) for admissions to the premier IITs. This year, the IIT Council has decided to shortlist 2 lakh candidates.



Experts attribute the fall to the waning interest in engineering and also to the variety of choices available to students in other professions in the last few years. Vijay Singh, former national coordinator for science Olympiads and a Raja Ramanna Fellow, said, "For the last few years, the impression that an engineering degree does not guarantee you a job has percolated down %to students.

Government Panel Suggests Regulatory Body for Coaching Institutions But Seems Unlikely

COURTESY: TELEGRAPH

The government is unlikely to crack down on coaching institutes, although a committee set up by the IIT Council had recommended a regulatory regime.

Sources familiar with the government's possible approach said the HRD ministry would reject the Ashok Mishra panel's suggestion to set up an All India Council for Coaching for Entrance Examinations (AICCEE) to regulate fees charged by coaching institutes and ensure a minimum standard.

The panel, headed by IIT Roorkee chairman Mishra, had said coaching was a lucrative "industry" worth approximately Rs 24,000 crore a year.

Two members of the panel argued that when technical education regulator AICTE could regulate private engineering colleges, the proposed AICCEE would do the same job for coaching institutions.

The AICCEE, they said, should allow only those institutes that maintain a good faculty and facilities and don't make false claims.

The Mishra panel, set up to examine whether the existing two-tier test - the JEE -Main for admissions to NITs and the JEE -Advanced for IITs - for taking in BTech students could be merged, said the purpose of education was mental refinement, not passing an entrance exam.

But Satya Narayanan R., chairman of Career Launcher, a coaching institute, said the government could not restrict individuals or institutes from offering a service against a fee mutually agreed upon by the provider and the client.

Many state governments, he said, provide funds to students from socially disadvantaged groups so that they can enrol in coaching institutes to crack exams that have to be cleared to enter the IITs, other top tech schools or the civil services.

"Coaching will never stop as long as there is a gap between demand for good institutions and scant supply," Narayanan said.

Earlier, another panel, headed by Rajat Moona, director-general of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, had found that the impact of coaching had increased since the system of giving weightage to board marks was introduced in 2013 for admissions to NITs.

It said that 14.63 per cent of candidates who appeared for the 2012 All India Engineering Entrance Examination, which became the JEE Main in 2013, had admitted to having been coached. In 2013 and 2014, this percentage increased to 18.15 and 18.89.

Board muscles out JEE in NIT

SOURCE:TELEGRAPH INDIA

 Many students with the problem-solving skills required of engineers are losing out on National Institutes of Technology seats because of the weightage given to admission seekers' board scores, two expert panels have said.

These panels have forwarded several arguments to recommend that the NITs scrap the 40 per cent board weightage- as The Telegraph had reported last month - and admit students solely on the basis of their scores in the JEE Main, which now receive 60 per cent weightage.

The 31 NITs are in favour of dropping the board weightage, introduced in 2013. But they want to follow the premier Indian Institutes of Technology in admitting students on the basis of their scores in the JEE Advanced, which only the top 1.5 lakh JEE Main performers can take. The government is yet to take a final decision on either issue.

One of the panels was appointed by the Union human resource development ministry and was headed by IIT Bombay director Devang Khakhar. The JEE Apex Board had appointed the other, headed by Rajat Moona, director-general of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing.

Here are some of their findings:

• A few candidates with very poor - even negative - JEE Main scores but good board percentiles this year received higher ranks on the merit list than some with far better JEE Main scores but poor board percentiles, the Moona panel has found. (See chart)

• A student with zero marks in the JEE Main can earn a rank of about 65,000 thanks to his board marks, the Khakhar panel calculated.

• The Khakhar panel quoted parents who had presented calculations to show that a one per cent difference in candidates' board marks can sometimes separate them by 2,000 ranks on the merit list while a 10 per cent difference in JEE Main marks can have much less impact. The panel, however, gave no details.

These examples suggest that candidates' marks in their board exams - which do not generally test their problem-solving abilities - can sometimes influence the merit list more than their scores in the JEE Main, which does test these abilities. The panels, therefore, felt the present system was hurting many deserving candidates.

• The Khakhar panel felt that one of the objectives behind the weightage accorded to board marks - that it would encourage students to pay more attention to their school education - was misplaced since only a tiny fraction of schoolchildren took the JEE. Administrative measures alone can improve school education, it said.

• Another objective behind the board weightage was to check the trend among students to take private coaching for the JEE. But the Moona committee quoted educational ads to show that some coaching institutes were now offering integrated coaching for school education as well as the JEE Main.

It said that 14.63 per cent of candidates for the All India Engineering Entrance Examination, which in 2013 became the JEE Main, had admitted to having been coached. In 2013 and 2014, this percentage increased to 18.15 and 18.89.

• One other objective behind the board weightage was to boost rural and girl students' admission to the NITs. The Moona panel found that this had been achieved to an extent. From 27.67 per cent in 2012, rural students' proportion among the top one lakh rankers increased to 29.47 per cent in 2013, 30.79 in 2014, and 30.20 in 2015.

Girls' participation increased from 22.34 per cent of candidates in 2012 to 25.52, 26 and 25.79 per cent, respectively, in 2013, 2014 and 2015. Their proportion among the top one lakh rankers rose from 18.57 to 22.75, 22.55 and 22.25 per cent.

• Some or other among the country's 30-odd school boards delays the publication of its results every year, holding up the admission process.

• The Moona panel found that some boards offer only four courses in Class XII while some others offer five, six or seven. Since the board weightage is calculated on the basis of a candidate's five best-scoring subjects, the boards that offer just four courses cite physical education as the fifth.

However, a candidate's scores in physical education provide little insight into his academic capabilities, the panel said.

• The Moona panel highlighted the problem of rank allotment to students who seek re-evaluation (or a revision of the calculation) of their board marks. Since their results arrive later than those of others, they are assigned fractional ranks --- say, 100.1 or 100.2 if they fall between the already declared 100th and 101st rankers.

Although this does not interfere with merit-based selection, the panel objected on the ground that under this system, the lower ranks do not reflect a candidate's real position.

The Khakhar panel also questioned the process of normalising candidates' board scores, which is necessitated by the boards' differing degrees of generosity in awarding marks, but did not cite specifics. Nor did it suggest ways of improving the normalisation process, perhaps because it wants the board weightage scrapped altogether.

At the October 1 meeting of the NIT Council, some members said the board weightage had helped more girls and rural students secure admission. Another committee will be set up to study the impact of the board weightage in detail.

Jamia to admit students through JEE

SOURCE: BS

Jamia Millia Islamia is likely to do away with its entrance exam for engineering courses and admit students through the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE). 

The JEE-Main which is conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is used as a selection examination for all central government-funded technical schools, including the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and the Indian Institutes of Information Technology(IIITs), while students opting for the IITs need to clear the JEE-Advanced exam. 
"We have initiated process for the same and have approached the concerned authorities. There are certain procedures that need to be followed, hopefully we will be able to admit the students through JEE exam from the next academic session," Jamia VC Talat Ahmad told reporters here. 

"It will not only help us deal better with chances of paper leak but also the recognition of courses offered by Jamia will improve significantly since the students will be admitted through JEE," he added. 

Panel suggests withdrawal option after second round of IIT, NIT admission

SOURCE:TOI

 In the joint seat allocation process for admissions to IITs and NITs next year, the authority may allow admission withdrawal option once at the end of the second round. If recommendations made to the Joint Admission Board (JAB) are accepted, the process will undergo a few changes in 2016. 

Among others, the admission committee has also suggested that seats vacant in any course in IITs should be carried forward for admissions to the first year BTech programme the following year. This will mean, if three of the 110 seats are vacant in BTech computer science programme at IIT-Bombay this year for any reason, 113 seats will be made available for students in 2016. The recommendations were submitted in their final admission report submitted to the board last month. 

An official said that the joint seat allocation process was quite successful this year for IITs as less than 50 seats were vacant at the end of it. "But if all seats need to be filled in IITs and NITs, then we need to hold more rounds. For this, we will have to start the process early," he said. This year, IITs carried out three rounds of ad missions, while NITs had four. The admission process, however, could start only on July 1 after the CBSE submitted the Class XII scores of over 45 higher secondary education boards. "If 4-5 rounds are conducted, there is a possibility that all seats will be full. We also need to give students at least 1to 2 weeks between the last admission date and the joining date to ensure they get enough time to reach their respective campuses," said the official. Students this year also complained that there was no option to withdraw admission in the joint seat allocation process. While officials said seats were allotted to students on the basis of merit and their choices, students claimed that they were stuck with an unwanted seat once they made a wrong choice. "Giving withdrawal option after every round will complicate the process. So we suggested that students can be allowed to withdraw admission once at the end of the second round," said the official. 

Devang Khakhar, director of IIT-Bombay who was cochairman of JoSAA 2015, confirmed suggestions were made to the admission board but are yet to be accepted. IIT-Guwahati will represent IITs in JoSAA 2016 along with an NIT. 

PANEL RECOMMENDS SINGLE ENGINEERING TEST

A government-appointed panel has recommended a single entrance test for admissions to all engineering institutes under AICTE and a common examination for all business schools. 

Significantly, it has suggested that seats which fall vacant after the completion of counselling sessions "shall not be treated as a management quota", but be used to accommodate students on the waiting list. 

The panel has recommended setting up of a National Testing Service for conduct of the exam and proposed that it be an independent body seeking the support of CBSE or outsourcing the work to other agencies.

At present over 11,000 institutes, both engineering and management, come under the purview of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). 

"There shall be a single National Testing Service which shall conduct a Joint Entrance Examination for engineering courses and a Common Admission Test for management courses, the results whereof shall be used by all institutions, whether run by universities, deemed universities, state government-run universities, private universities etc. 

"The seats which fall vacant after the completion of counselling sessions shall not be treated as a management quota, but shall be used to accommodate students on the waiting lists of these examinations," the report of the AICTE review committee said. 

The recommendations have been posted on the website mygov.in to seek the views of stakeholders.

"Today a student takes a plethora of entrance tests for entry to an institution under AICTE - and these are over and above the board exam. For example, JEE Main for engineering, CMAT for management, etc. Moreover, most states have some form of an entrance test. Besides, several deemed universities and private universities have their own tests and criteria for admission. 

"Therefore, it is proposed that a national testing agency be established under AICTE. It will endeavour to have a single national entrance test for all institutions under it," the report said. 

In its report, the committee has also suggested that AICTE should be transformed into an "apex constitutional authority" and emphasized on doing away with the affiliation system within a decade. 

"It should be converted into an apex constitutional authority to promote orderly, integrated and coordinated development of technical education ... technical education should be a fundamental right," the report said. 

The recommendations come two years after the HRD ministry then headed by Kapil Sibal had proposed to have a similar national testing agency to conduct various kinds of national level entrance examinations. A task force was also constituted to take the proposal forward, but little was heard about the it since then. 

Recognising the need for restructuring and strengthening the AICTE to address the challenges, the Human Resource Development Ministry had set up a review committee led by former education secretary MK Kaw in November 2014.

SOURCE: TOI

CLASS XII MARKS MAY SOON NOT COUNT FOR IN JEE

Students may not require their Class XII board marks for admissions to all central engineering institutes, other than IITs, from next year or by 2017, if a Central Seat Allocation Board (CSAB) recommendation is accepted by the ministry of human resource development. On the other hand, the competitive exam may be held a tad earlier next year, for authorities say that additional time is required for the admission process.

Following the delay in submission of Class XII scores by boards to the CBSE and glitches in the scores of some students during this year's admission process, the CSAB will be strongly recommending admissions only on the basis of JEE (Main) scores. It means, the 40% weightage given to Class XII scores for admissions to NITs and other GFTIs (other than IITs) may be scrapped.

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 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

CBSE Finally announces the Board Marks Normalization Details

Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced the normalization procedure for class 12 board exam marks in preparing all India JEE Main 2013 merit list. In view of large scale variations in the examination system in country, the JEE Interface Group (JIG) decided that for this year (2013), 50% of Boards marks 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. The detailed procedure for normalization of Board marks will be as follows:

1. Note down the aggregate marks (A0) obtained by each student in JEE- Main.

2. Compute the percentile (P) of each student on the basis of aggregate marks in his/her own board (B0) computed from the list of five subjects specified (each marked out of 100). The percentile is to be computed among all students of the board whose subject combinations meet the eligibility criteria of JEE-Main. 

3. Determine the JEE- Main aggregate marks corresponding to percentile (P) at the All- India level. Regard this as B1.

4. Also, determine the JEE- Main aggregate marks corresponding to percentile (P) among the set of aggregate scores obtained in the JEE- Main by the students of that board. Regard this as B2.

 The normalized board score of the candidate will be computed as:

 B (final) = 0.5 * (B1 + B2)

 For the purpose of admission to CFTIs where it has been decided to use the JEE Mains performance and the Normalized Board performance in the 60:40 ratio, the composite score for drawing the merit list will be computed as: 

C = 0.6 * AO + 0.4 * B (final),

 Five subjects to be used for normalization: 

 Physics 

 Mathematics 

Any one of the subjects Chemistry, Biology, Biotechnology and Computer Science One language Any subject other than the above four subjects.

 In respect of 3, 4 and 5, the best mark in a given category will be chosen. 

 For any query please write to jeemainnormalisation2013@gmail.com .

Example to understand. Student A of CBSE has secured 100 marks in JEE (Main) but has got 99.9 percentile in board. His final likely score will be 0.6*100+0.4*.5(345+345)=60 +138 = 198. Another student B of CBSE has has got 250 marks in JEE(Main) and 97 percentile in CBSE.His final likely score will be 0.6*250+0.4*.5(145+155)=150 +60 = 210.

UPDATE ROLL NUMBER OF 12 BOARD EXAM ON JEE MAIN WEBSITE: Last Date extended to 25 APRIL

IMPORTANT TO ALL 12 APPEARING STUDENTS

All the aspirants and registered candidates of JEE(Main)-2013 are informed to log on the
and fill up their roll nos. of class 12th /qualifying examination. The
candidates who have wrongly entered the name of the board or wrongly entered the roll nos. may
also correct it now. The facility will be available till 12.00 midnight on 20.03.2013.

THIS HAS NOW BEEN EXTENDED TO 25/4/2012