IIT’s want to switch to ISEET

IIT’s want to switch to ISEET as prelims followed by IIT JEE subjective exam, top 50,000 in ISEET eligible for IIT JEE

Earlier at the Pan IIT summit , NewYork, Narayana Murthy , Chairman of Infosys , expressed his great displeasure 

over the quality of the engineers passing out of IIT’s blaming the JEE format, which followed by heated discussions among stake holders of IIT’s,amid this MHRD has proposed to have a nation wide common engineering entrance test called ISEET which faced a stiff opposition from the senates of IIT’s.

In a bid to improve the situation IIT’s want to switch to the earlier pattern of IIT JEE, a subjective test to shortlist students for the admission to IIT’b ut as a compromise between MHRD’s proposal of having a nation wide common entrance test and IIT’s having a seperate test,all the IIT senates have decided to go for a two-tier selection process,where a nation wide objective test will be used as a prelim exam for IIT’s and the top 50,000 in the objective test (ISEET) will be made eligible to appear for IIT JEE subjective test.

Reportedly Ministry of Human Resources Development have been informed about the proposal to change admission process.The final decision on the same will be taken at the MHRD meeting with IIT Senates to be held on May 28.

IITs pitch for subjective JEE to improve student quality

IITs pitch for subjective JEE to improve student quality.

The new test will seek to evaluate the knowledge and analytical ability of aspiring students

New Delhi: The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are planning to switch to a subjective question-based test from the current multiple-choice-based joint entrance examination (JEE) after criticism over the deteriorating quality of students.

The new test will seek to evaluate the knowledge and analytical ability of aspiring students. Critics of the current format, which comprises two multiple-choice papers, include Infosys Ltd chairman emeritus N.R. Narayana Murthy and other executives and alumni.

The move is also being seen by some academicians as a compromise between the government and the IITs over a common entrance exam for all engineering schools. The government wants to conduct a nationwide objective-type selection test for millions of students aspiring for such colleges, including the IITs.

The IITs themselves now favour a two-tier selection process, where the top rank holders in the objective test will be eligible to appear for a final subjective question-based evaluation.

The human resource development (HRD) ministry has been informed about the proposal to change the selection process by the senates of at least the five older IITs. The senate is the highest decision-making body at an IIT and comprises senior professors, the director and some outside experts, including former students and executives.

“Selecting students through an objective test is not the best way to get quality students for institutes like IITs,” said Sanjeev Sanghi, president of the IIT Delhi faculty forum. “We need to go back to the subjective format.”

Murthy said at an IIT alumni meet in New York in October last year that JEE coaching centres had led to the deteriorating quality of students entering the colleges. “But their performance in IITs, at jobs or when they come for higher education in institutes in the US is not as good as it used to be,” he said. “This has to be corrected. A new method of selection of students to IITs has to be arrived at.”

While the top 20% of IITians can “stand among the best anywhere in the world”, the quality of the remaining 80% wasn’t as sound, Murthy had said.

The IITs insist though that changing the entrance format will have a significant impact on student quality.

Old IIT JEE , ISEET or new JEE

Old IIT JEE , ISEET or new JEE, So what is the new engineering entrance examination ?

There’s a lot of confusion in students about what is the engineering entrance examination that they need to prepare for , thanks to Ministry of Human Resources Development and IIT’s for not making any official statement on the same.

Here’s a quick snapshot of what has happened till now:

>In the year 2011, T.Ramasami Commission presented it’s report to Ministry of Human Resources Department stating a need for a Nation wide common Engineering Entrance Examination and that Class 12 marks has to be given weightage not less than 40%.

>MHRD has approved the common Engineering entrance examination which can be called ISEET (INDIAN SCIENCE-ENGINEERING ELIGIBILITY TEST ).

>ISEET will have three 40% weightage to 12th marks , Main examination which comprises of test for aptitude, comprehension and critical thinking and Advanced examination which will have test for Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry.

>NIT’s and IIIT’s also approve ISEET as Engineering Entrance .

>IIT Council approved ISEET to be implemented from 2013.

>Board of State Education Ministers endorse ISEET to be implemented from 2013.

>MHRD suggests that only IIT’s , NIT’s, IIIT’s And IISER Will Have Single Entrance Test In 2013

>IIT Faculty federation strongly opposes ISEET as engineering entrance exam.

>Kapil Sibal says the name of the engineering entrance can still be JEE , and ISEET renamed back to JEE .

>MHRD also announces that IIT JEE will be held twice from 2013.

Amid All India IIT Faculty Federation strongly opposing the new format of JEE and Sibal working hard on getting the new JEE implemented from 2013 we will have to wait next month for an official announcement on the new JEE as MHRD , IIT’s and CBSE is working on the details and modalities of the examination, though it’s putting a lot of pressure on students appearing for engineering entrance in 2013

Three wrong questions in AIEEE-2012 offline question paper

Reportedly there were 3 wrong questions in AIEEE 2012 question paper conducted on 29th Apr 2012 and were subsequently confirmed by the board. One question was from Physics section(Q No. 17) and remaining two were in Mathematics section(Q No. 66 and 85). In all three questions there were some printing mistakes and students wasted lot of their time on these questions before they could be sure that questions were wrong.

Confirmed decision on grace marks for these wrong questions has yet to be taken by Board. One teacher told that usually in this case, only those students are awarded marks who have attempted those particular questions or sometimes the questions are not included in the total marks itself, but anyhow it is ensured that no student is at loss due to the mistake.

June Time Table Chart

Time Table Chart of June 2012 is out. Check the Schedule & enroll for the relative Topics. Classes will start from 4th June 2012. Hurry!!! Limited Seats.

 

IIT-JEE question pattern has changed

The IIT-joint entrance examination question pattern has changed a lot over the years. The focus has now been to accommodate more students.
    “With the increased number of seats and moderate question pattern, more students are making the cut compared to 80s and 90s,” said VK Bansal, founder and managing director of Bansal classes.
    However, students have a different viewpoint. “Yes, the seats have been increased and the papers are not as tough as they used to be. But even the competition has increased manifold. Look at the number of students enrolling every year. The pressure is much more than it used to be in the past,” said Geentajli Biswas, a student at one of the coaching institutes in Kota.
    Her views were echoed by Narendra Avasthi, director of Vibrant Academy. “These exams are relative and there will be no impact on the standard of students entering IIT. No matter how tough or easy the papers are, only the brilliant students will get selected.”
    The central government’s efforts to curb the mushrooming growth of coaching institutes are playing a pivotal role in this shift. “There has been a dilution in the set standard of JEE. This year’s paper was a notch below in terms of difficulty compared to last year. By bringing down the difficulty level, JEE is trying to give equal opportunity to those not taking any coaching. Taking weightage of VII grade marks into account is yet another step in this direction,” said Pramod Maheshwari.
    Despite all the efforts, the JEE could not avoid controversies in conducting the test. A last minute glitch of putting two answers for a question, which was earlier declared null and void due to technicalities, changed the rankings of many students.
    IIT should be careful while designing the question papers as last minute cancellations and changes affects students’ confidence. But we also appreciate the way they brought transparency in the system,” said RK Verma of Resonance.
    However, the experts appreciated the transparency brought in by the JEE.
    This year the OMR sheets, answers and even the highest marks scored by students were put on the website before declaring the results.

Kota losing its raj as IIT coaching hub in country?

Is It True ??

Once a sleeping town in the state, Kota later became the hub for IIT-JEE coaching in the country. As many as 35 institutes have opened here which help students crack the IITJEE exam every year. But a sudden decline in the number of candidates getting selected for IIT from here has brought to focus the quality of training that the institutes impart.
    In 2008, out of the top 10, six students took coaching in Kota. But the success ratio declined over the subsequent years. Only three could make it to the top 10 in 2009, none in 2010, three in 2011 and just 1 in 2012.
    “Kota is fast losing its position as the number one city that churns out IIT toppers. Coaching centers have decentralized and each city has a number of institutes, which will lower the number of students travelling to Kota seeking training,” said P K Bansal of Bansal Classes.
    The Union government proposing the idea to give 40% weightage to Class XII marks in the entrance has also played a role in shifting the focus of students and parents from Kota.“Just focusing on IIT and neglecting Class XII papers is not happening any more. So more and more students are staying back and preparing simultaneously for IIT from their hometowns,” added Bansal.
    The students who used to throng Kota after completion of Class X also show a shift in perception. “There is no guarantee that only those who study in Kota can make it to IIT. In fact, more and more IIT candidates are now coming from smaller places. Even this year, there are candidates from towns like Bhilai and Nellore,” said Arpit Agarwal, 2012 JEE topper, who himself preferred to stay in hometown Faridabad rather than moving to Kota.