National Institute of Technology (NITs) adopted the common entrance for admission to the undergraduate programme of NIT from 2013 giving 40 per cent weightage to board results and 60 per cent weightage to the main exam for preparing merit list with some tweaking in the proposed format on Wednesday. After a meeting chaired by HRD [...]
School Boards to announce percentile of top 20 students in a week
July 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
All the school Boards of India on Thursday decided to make available the percentile of top 20 candidates within seven days to help students get a clear picture of the marks required to be eligible for IIT entrance test. The boards also have decided to declare their results before June 10 and will complete the revaluation [...]
IITs retain hold on ‘advanced test’
July 2, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The IIT Council on Wednesday struck a compromise with the human resource ministry and agreed on a common test, but in two stages, with the final one under their control. The council also decided that only the top 20 percent scorers of any school board will be eligible to appear in the entrance examinations. “We [...]
New JEE = More profit for coaching institutes
June 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment
As HRD ministry has decided to introduce a new common engineering test from 2013, private coaching institutes are anticipating a surge in demand from students looking to maximize their Class XII board exam marks along with entrance exam coaching. Making the most of the opportunity, coaching institutes have already started revising their training modules to [...]
DU CATE 2012 to be conducted by a private firm
May 20, 2012 by
The Delhi University’s Combined Aptitude Test for English (CATE) from this year will conducted by a private firm. CATE is conducted for admission to English (honours) in various DU colleges and last year it was able to attract around 10,000 applications. Tapan Basu, CATE, coordinator added that even last year a private firm was engaged [...]
