Two IIT JEE 2012 Questions of Worth 7 Marks will be Cancelled

As announced earlier , corrected IIT JEE answer sheets are now available on JEE portals of all IIT’s , the corrected Optical Response Sheets will be available on these portals till May 10, where in students can match their answers and file a complaint if there is any discrepancy in marks awarded in his/her answer sheet , he/she can file a complaint between May 5 and May 10 and the answer sheet will be manually verified before 15 May.

Though due to large number of students flocking to these websites, most of them are very slow in response or are down.

This is the first time IIT’s are making the corrected ORS sheets available and is a good step towards bringing in transparency in the admission process to the prestigious engineering colleges.

Students who appeared for IIT JEE 2012 Entrance Exam are hereby informed that the IIT Council has Decided to Cancel two Wrong Questions which worth seven(7) Marks. The IITs has Published its IT JEE 2012 Official Answer Keys.

IIT Bombay Chairman AV Mahajan Said that the Council has Decided to cancel the Two Question which worth seven Marks in the Meeting. Sources Says said that the Two Mistakes were form Paper 2 one Questions in Chemistry paper and Another Mistake in Mathematics Paper. With this decision the IIT JEE 2012 Marks Come Down from 408 to 401 Marks.

BITS entrance is more competitive than IIT-JEE

Chennai: Cracking the IITJEE may be top priority for most students, but the BITSAT is now the most competitive of all national engineering entrance exams in the country. 
    An average of 68 students will compete for a seat in this year’s BITSAT, the online test for admission into degree courses at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, which starts on May 10. In comparison, only 54 students contested for a seat at the IIT-JEE 2012. 
    Based on number of applications received, 1.36 lakh students are expected to take the BITSAT-2012 for admission to a total of 2,000 seats at the institute’s campuses in Pilani, Hyderabad and Goa. The exam will be conducted in 32 centres across the country between May 10 and June 9, 2012. On the other hand, 5.2 lakh students took the IITJEE 2012 on April 8 to be eligible for 9,600 seats in the 15 Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), the Institute of Technology at Banaras Hindu University (IT-BHU) and the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad. 
    The VITEEE, which was conducted on April 21 for admission into deemed university Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), follows the IITs with 48 students competing for one seat. The exam was taken by approximately 1.5 lakh students across India for admission to 3,100 seats. “VIT sees the largest number of applicants among deemed universities because of its placement record, especially in the IT sector,” says Jayaprakash Gandhi, an education consultant. 
    Next comes the All India Engineering Entrance Exam (AIEEE), which was taken by 11 lakh students this year for admission into approximately 35,000 seats in the 31 National Institutes of Technology (NIT). The AIEEE score is also used by approximately 50 other private and government engineering institutions across the country.

Staff crunch, temporary campuses mar new IITs

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New Delhi: The government’s attempt to bolster professional education institutes has turned a cropper, with the new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) hit by an acute shortage of faculty and are still functioning from temporary campuses. 
    A parliamentary panel report has asked the HRD ministry to ensure that these gaps are met so that the premium institutes can function more effectively. 
    The standing committee on HRD has expressed concern over the shortage of faculty that is as high as 60% in some IITs. The sanctioned posts in the new IITs are about 90, but none of the new institutes have been able to fill up their posts. 
    While IIT-Hyderabad had the support of 74 faculty members, institutes in Patna (55), Bhubaneswar (50), Indore (38) and Mandi (35) had below-par strength. IIT-Jodhpur was worst off, with only 32 members in its faculty. “The committee is of the view that only qualified and experienced faculty can make the functioning of any institution, specially premier institutions like IITs, meaningful and effective,” the report said. 
    It also expressed concern over the running of new IITs from temporary campuses despite being set up between 2008 and 2010. In the case of new IITs, either the location of the permanent campus was being finalized or land allotted or construction work was to start. 
    In the case of IITs in Bhubaneswar and Mandi, for instance, the foundation stones were laid in February, 2009 but they continued to function from temporary campuses. The report said that it was clear that it would take some time before IITs begin to function from “well-structured and well-equipped campuses”. 
    Five IISERs also continue to function from temporary campuses. IISERs are expected to have state-ofthe-art buildings, fully equipped labs and a rich library, but these facilities are still not available for students. 
    The report noted that 10 new NITs also suffered a similar fate, four functioning out of their respective mentor NITs and six running from temporary campuses.Cabinet may consider accreditation bill Acrucial bill that makes it mandatory for every higher educational institute (except agricultural institutes) and every course to be accredited by an independent agency is likely to come up in the Union Cabinet on Thursday. If passed, it will give students an assessment of the college and course they are applying for. The much delayed ‘Universities of Innovation bill’ that aims to establish varsities that will encourage superlative academic quality and research output could also come before the Cabinet. The ‘National Accreditation Regulatory Authority for Higher Educational Institutions Bill’, moved by the HRD ministry, will establish a statutory authority that will assess and accredit an institute on the basis of the course, faculty and infrastructure. The educational institutes will have to be accredited within six years, while the process of assessment and accreditation was split, officials said. TNN.

IITs ready to open Mauritius campus

New Delhi: Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are set to open their first overseas campus in Mauritius and a feasibility report has already been prepared.

IIT Kharagpur. Photo by Indranil Bhoumik/Mint

This campus will be set up in collaboration with Mauritius University with support from the Indian as well as the Mauritius government. To be named International Institute of Technology (IIT), the institution will engage in research and development for the first five years.

“We have already given the feasibility report to the human resource development ministry as well as the Mauritius government,” said M. Balakrishnan, who is spearheading the team in charge of the plan. “We are ready to start it this year but it depends on both the governments, as the proposal to set up the institute was taken by the Indian education minister and his mauritius counterpart,” he said.

Human resource development minister Kapil Sibal and Rajesh Jeetah, Mauritius’ minister of tertiary education, science, research and technology, had in June 2010 expressed a willingness to open an institute similar to an IIT in the island nation.

To start with, it will be a IIT-Delhi research academy with a global outlook, Balakrishnan said. “IIT Delhi will mentor the institute and we believe we will engage some 40 faculty members for the Mauritius centre,” he said, adding that these professors need to give at least one month of their time for the campus—three weeks in Mauritius and one week in India dedicated for the offshore plan. According to the plan, the initial investment will be more than $20 million (around Rs. 100 crore).

Since Mauritius does not have a huge industry-linked economy, the course and research areas have to be global in outlook, Balakrishnan said. Both faculty and students will be global as well.

“Their industries are largely sugar and fisheries but we know that it’s an international gateway and can be a hot destination for IT, electronics and e-commerce streams,” he said.

A human resource development ministry official, who did not want to be named, said the ministry is discussing the report and is “quite optimistic”.

IIT-Delhi director R.K. Shevgaonkar said the IITs want to make their presence felt overseas. “We now have the expertise and know how to help a country set up an IIT-like institute. It will have a huge impact on our brand image.”

The aim is to start with research and not undergraduate courses. “If you start teaching undergraduate courses from the beginning then it will become a college, not an IIT-type institute, which is research-oriented,” he said.

IIT answer sheets to be posted online

New Delhi: IIT aspirants will now get to see their evaluated answer scripts of the Joint Entrance Examination even before the result is declared on May 18. IIT Delhi, which organized JEE on April 8 this year, has decided to upload the checked optical response sheets of every candidate on the JEE website. The sheets will be available online only for six days from May 5 to May 10. 
    During this time, candidates can go through the evaluation and point out any discrepancy or error in checking. IITD will consider all complaints and update scores, if required, before preparing the final merit list. This is for the first time that IITs will show evaluated ORS to candidates. “It is possible that sometimes the scanner might not read an answer if the candidate has not filled the response bubble completely. Candidates can go through their optical reader sheets and if they do not find the evaluation satisfactory, they can lodge a complaint online,” said Professor R Shevgaonkar, director, IIT Delhi. Nearly 4.8 lakh candidates had appeared in JEE this year. Since JEE is held in two parts, each candidate had two ORS which will now be uploaded. A candidate can access the ORS using his or her date of birth and registration number. 
    The administration will consider an answer only if the response bubble has been darkened more than half. IITD officials also clarified that there will be no scope for changing the answers as the ORS will be uploaded only as an image. Also, there will be no scope for questioning the answer keys or the evaluation process. “This facility will enable students to highlight any technical glitches. They’ll know the marks scored for each question. Representatives of all IITs will meet after May 10 and the revision process will be carried out between May 11 and May 14. Te updated responses will be reflected in the ORS by May 15,” said JEE chairperson Professor G B Reddy. The ranks will be clear only on May 18.

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Madhya Pradesh to join common engineering entrance test from 2013

INDORE: The Madhya Pradesh government after its initial resistance and reluctance over the common test for admission to engineering colleges, have decided to join the Indian Science Engineering Eligibility Test (ISEET) from the next academic session.

Though the entrance exam will be introduced from this year by the union government, the Madhya Pradesh has decided to follow the common engineering entrance examination from 2013.

From next year merit of the test will enable students to gain entrance in all major and regional engineering colleges including the IITs. Confirming the state's stand on the participating in ISEET, Sanjay Singh, principal secretary, technical education said, "There were few issues earlier, which have been sorted out at the ministerial level. The state will join the entrance exam from 2013, which will benefit the students of state."

Earlier, Madhya Pradesh including several other states opposed the common entrance examination this year which the union government proposed to conduct in English and Hindi languages.

Madhya Pradesh could have joined the format this year as both the languages are spoken and written by the students of state but officials have taken a year's time to let the students adopt to the format.

Under the new format separate merit list for state and centre will be declared. The state merit list will be used by each state for giving admission in engineering and pharmacy colleges. The decision will benefit students as they will get a reprieve from appearing in multiple entrance exams to secure a seat in good top colleges.

Currently, the students keen on an engineering career appear in minimum three entrance exams like IIT-JEE and AIEEE, along with MPPET. Narendra Dhakad, additional director, higher education said, "State has to accept the format as central government holds the power under the constitution to implement its policies." He said that students will benefit as they will not have to spend money for filling examination forms for multiple entrance examinations.