The last year of IIT-JEE i.e. 2012 will see more than five lakh candidates appearing for the toughest engineering entrance exam. According to reports, the figure has risen by 16,000 in comparison to the last year. It stood at 4.86 lakh in 2011. The year before, in 2010, it was 4.56 lakh. The process of [...]
An ETS like body may soon be formed to conduct national level exams in India. The HRD minister Kapil Sibbal has said that the ministry has decided to put in place a national testing authority as a statutory body that will conduct all kinds of exams. Notably, ETS (Educational Testing Service) is the world’s largest [...]
Aakash tablet- the government’s ambitious project will now be handled by three more IITs. According to reports, the government plans to rope in IIT Madras, IIT Mumbai and IIT Kanpur to make the tablet PC project more indigenous and reduce its price. IIT Rajasthan is already supervising its development. A meeting was held in New [...]
Expansion seems to be the keyword for IITs and institutes related to it. After the expansion of IITs now it is the turn of Super 30 to expand itself to Super 50. Anand Kumar, mathematician and the man behind the phenomenon called Super 30, plans to reach out to other Hindi speaking states. It has [...]
The infrastructural facilities at the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi are poised to get a facelift as the civic administration has given it the go-ahead to modify its layout plan. The Hauz Khas campus of the institute may soon see beginning of construction work in full swing. The sanction has given the authorities the approval to [...]
IIT-Hyderabad is witnessing a frenzy for a particular fractional credit course these days. Reason: The august presence of Missile man and former President Dr.Abdul Kalam as the faculty member. Dr. Kalam is teaching the course which goes by the name “Empowering 3 billion”. He took his first class on Tuesday. It was a big hit [...]
Chetan Bhagat once remarked that life of a student transforms totally at IITs and leaves permanent changes on it. His “Five Point Someone” describes that experience vividly. IITs are famed for producing wizards. In fact, those who get there are no less than wizards themselves. Most of them for sure! Nothing can be more oft-repeated [...]
The decision to waive off IIT-JEE and AIEEE and introduce a single entrance test in its place has received different responses from the different stakeholders. Schools and colleges are by and large happy as they feel that students will now pay attention to classes and focus on board exams too. The proposed new policy is [...]
The cloud over the replacement of IIT-JEE and AIEEE with a single entrance test seems to be getting over. According to reports, in the coming year 2013, a common aptitude-cum-advanced knowledge test will replace IIT-JEE (Joint Entrance Exam) and AIEEE (All India Engineering Entrance Examination). The admissions to the centrally funded engineering including the IITs [...]
The super success of Super 30 seems all set to get replicated in Bengaluru. Rashtrotthana Parishat along with BASE has started an initiative on the lines of Super 30 in Patna. The organisation will train underprivileged but meritorious students for the toughest engineering entrance exam i.e. the IIT-JEE. Notably, Super 30 has carved a niche [...]