NEST 2014 : Notification out now

National Entrance Screening Test (NEST) is a compulsory test for students seeking admission to National Institute of Science Education and Research(NISER), Bhubaneswar and University of Mumbai - Department of Atomic Energy Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences (UM-DAE CBS), Mumbai. BothNISER and UM-DAE CBS were set up by Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India in 2007. Their mandate is to train scientific manpower for carrying out cutting edge scientific research and for providing input to scientific programmes of Department of Atomic Energy and other applied science institutions in the country. The test is conducted in 45 centers across India. This brochure gives the detailed procedure for applying for the test, syllabus of the test and various dead lines.

Integrated Science Education and Research Center (ISERC), Visva Bharati, is also participating in NEST 2014 and will admit students for its Integrated MSc course from the Merit List of NEST 2014. The eligibility criteria are the same as that for NISER/ CBS and the students admitted to ISERC are also eligible for INSPIRE scholarship.

Important Dates

• Registration opens : January 07, 2014
• Last date for receiving request of offline application form (postal) : February 20, 2014
• Last date for receipt of completed offline application form : March 08, 2014 (5:30 pm)
• Online applications close : March 08, 2014 (midnight)
• Dispatch of offline admit cards starts : April 08, 2014
• Download of online admit cards starts : April 08, 2014
• Date of examination : May 31, 2014 (Saturday), 10:00 am - 1:0check 0 pm
• Announcement of results on NEST website : June 20, 2014

For more details check http://nestexam.in/

Its Official: RPET 2014 will take place

राज्य सरकार ने प्रदेश के इंजीनियरिंग कॉलेजों में ज्वाइंट एंट्रेंस एग्जामिनेशन (जेईई) से एडमिशन कराने का निर्णय बदलकर राजस्थान प्री इंजीनियरिंग टेस्ट (आरपीईटी) के जरिए ही राज्य के सभी गवर्नमेंट व प्राइवेट इंजीनियरिंग कॉलेजों में एडमिशन कराने का निर्णय लिया है।

30 दिसंबर को तकनीकी शिक्षा विभाग के संयुक्त सचिव आरके गुप्ता ने बोर्ड ऑफ टेक्निकल एजुकेशन जोधपुर, राजस्थान टेक्निकल यूनिवर्सिटी, कोटा सहित राज्य के सभी गवर्नमेंट कॉलेजों के प्रिंसिपल को आदेश जारी किए हैं।

गुप्ता ने बताया कि शैक्षणिक सत्र 2014-15 में राज्य के सभी इंजीनियरिंग कॉलेजों में जेईई के बजाय आरपीईटी के जरिए ही एडमिशन होंगे। जेईई के जरिए एडमिशन का निर्णय सरकार ने बदल दिया है। गुप्ता के अनुसार, जेईई के बजाय आरपीईटी से ही एडमिशन कराने के पीछे कारण राजस्थान में अधिकतर ग्रामीण एरिया होना है।

Source: Dainik Bhaskar

Common Councelling For IITs and NITs ???

The government has asked the Indian Institutes of Technology and the National Institutes of Technology to hold common counselling from this year to minimise seats going vacant at these engineering colleges.

But the 16 IITs, a notch above the 30 NITs in the pecking order, had defeated such a plan last year and are expected to oppose the latest Union human resource development ministry directive, too.

Over 600 seats had remained unoccupied in these tech schools last year, apparently because of separate counselling which allows a candidate to receive offers from an IIT and an NIT at the same time.

Such a candidate often hangs on to the coveted IIT seat while waiting to see whether he gets the subject of his choice in one of the NITs, which declare their merit lists a little later.

He thus blocks both seats and quits one only at the last moment, giving the institute hardly any time to fill it before the session begins.

Under the proposed common counselling, a student will receive an offer from only one institute, either an IIT or an NIT, at a time, higher education secretary Ashok Thakur told reporters today. If he rejects that offer, he may be given the option to join another institute.

“Common counselling will reduce the vacancy of seats,” Thakur said.

The 46 engineering schools were supposed to hold common counselling last year, too, and the software had been prepared. But the IITs backed out at the last moment and went ahead with their own counselling in June.

H.C. Gupta, former chairman for the IIT-JEE Advanced exam, said common counselling may not be feasible as the NITs hold their counselling a month after the IITs do.

“The IITs complete their counselling process by June 15 but the NITs wait till June 30 to get the board results, after which they can hold counselling,” Gupta said.

From last year, the IITs have been selecting students purely on the basis of their JEE-Advanced scores while the NITs have been doing so on the basis of the candidates’ JEE Main results and Class XII board marks.

“Our classes start by July 15. The IITs will be late to start their classes if common counselling is done,” Gupta said.

However, an NIT director alleged that the IITs consider themselves a bigger brand and feel that common counselling with the NITs would affect their brand image.

“The NITs too start their classes by July 25, just a few days after the IITs. This delay is not a big issue. This is a form of protectionism by the IITs,” the director said.

About 600 seats remained vacant in the NITs last year and a few in the IITs. In 2012, over 300 seats were wasted in the IITs and a similar number in the NITs.

Source: The Telegraph

JEE MAIN Online Registration Date Extended

CBSE has extended the date from 26 Dec to 6 Jan.

CBSE XII SCIENCE DATESHEET 2014

1 March                                ENGLISH CORE
5 March                                 PHYSICS 
11 March                               CHEMISTRY
15 March                              BIOLOGY
20 March                              MATHEMATICS
22 March                               Computer Sc/IP
24 March                              Physical Education


All the Best!!!!!!!!

IIST Admissions 2014

IIST offers Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) programmes in three branches, namely

(i) Aerospace Engineering
(ii) Avionics and
(iii) Physical sciences.

The total number of seats for the B.Tech Programmes in IIST for the academic year 2014-15 is 156. The seat matrix for different programmes is as follows:

B.Tech. in Aerospace Engineering : 60
B.Tech. in Avionics : 60
B.Tech. in Physical Sciences : 36

Candidates who are desirous to join B.Tech Programmes in IIST must appear for the Joint Entrance Examination (Main)-2014 conducted by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), New Delhi to qualify themselves to appear for Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced)-2014 conducted by IITs and secure the minimum prescribed category-wise marks in JEE (Advanced)-2014 as given below:-

(a) General Candidates (GEN): At least 20% marks in aggregate and at least 5% marks in each of the three subjects (Physics Chemistry and Mathematics).
(b) Other Backward Community – Non Creamy Layer (OBC-NCL) Candidates: At least 18% marks in aggregate and at least 4.5% marks in each of the three subjects (Physics Chemistry and Mathematics).
(c) Scheduled Caste(SC), Scheduled Tribe(ST) & Persons with Disabilities(PD) Candidates: At least 10% marks in aggregate and at least 2.5% marks in each of the three subjects (Physics Chemistry and Mathematics).

More details of JEE (Main) – 2014 may be viewed at http://www.jeemain.nic.in 
More details of JEE (Advanced) – 2014 may be viewed at http://www.jee.iitd.ac.in

Detailed IIST B.Tech Admission Brochure containing Application and Counselling procedures with important dates will be published in April, 2014.

Contact numbers : 0471-2568477 and 0471-2568478

Engineering Entrance Examination Forms

This is the question everyone asks "Which exams I should appear in?"
To answer that I will divide entrance exams into different categories:

CATEGORY 1: Mandatory

A)  JEE MAIN and JEE ADVANCED- Online application has already started and last date is 26 December. The website URL is
http://jeemain.nic.in/jeemainapp/Welcome.aspx
B) BITSAT-Application are generally filled in Dec-Jan. For exact details visit
http://www.bitsadmission.com/bitsat/bitsatmain.htm
D)SLEEE viz RPET, KCET (give only of your respective state if its possible).

No need to apply for any other exams 

But if you wish then options in order of preference are


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) SRMEE: SRM Entrance Examination 2014 (SRMEE 2014) for admission to programs B.Tech, M.Tech, MBA, MCA, Health Sciences - Under Graduate will be will be held as follows:

(i) Paper - Pencil Mode: April 27, 2014, Sunday from 10:00 AM  to 12:30 PM

(ii) Computer Based Exam: April 17 to April 22, 2014 with two sessions per day.

For  B.Tech and Health  Sciences UG:
Candidate can choose either Paper – Pencil entrance exam or
Online entrance exam.

C) MANIPAL University- Last date of application is 11 March.For details
http://www.manipal.edu/admissions/indianadmissions/pages/howtoapply.aspx


There are also some very good colleges that use merit list of AIEEE/IIT for the admissions but you need to apply seperately.

A) DCE/DTU- Delhi college of Engineering. The Application Form for admission to B.Tech. courses can be downloaded from www.dce.edu.

B)IIIT Hyderabad:

C) LNMIIT, Jaipur- Uses merit list of both JEE Main/ADVANCED.
For details see http://admissions.lnmiit.ac.in/

D)DAIICT, Gandhinagar-Uses JEE MAIN merit list .
For details see
http://www.daiict.ac.in/daiict/admissions/ug_indian.html

E) NIRMA University,Ahmedabad- Institute of Technology, Nirma University also takes in admission on basis of AIEEE merit list. Form comes usually after the announcement of JEE MAIN results.
For details visit http://www.nirmauni.ac.in

F) IIST: Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology also uses JEE ADVANCED List. You need to apply seperately. Form will be available in april.



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!!!

BITSAT 2014

BITSAT  is a Computer based online test for Admission to Integrated First Degree Programmes of BITS Pilani Campuses in Pilani, Goa and Hyderabad.

The advertisement for BITSAT 2014 is expected to be released by 20/12/2013.

Keep watching this space for more updates.

Applications form are now available for BITSAT-2014

Interested candidates should register for BITSAT-2013 by applying in the prescribed application form at   http://www.bitsadmission.com/. 

Last date for application is 15 Feb.

http://www.bitsadmission.com/bitsat/BITS%20ad%202014.pdf