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Nearly 1.54 lakh aspiring engineers who scored 32 per cent in this year’s Joint Entrance Examination (Main) were today declared eligible for the entrance exam to the Indian Institutes of Technology. JEE main cut off 2014 of all categories: CML-115 OBC-NCL - 74 SC-53 ST-47 The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) brought out the merit list for the JEE Main. Those who scored 115 out of the full marks of 360 have made it to the list of candidates eligible to take the JEE Advanced on May 25. Clearing that test will pave the way for admission to the 16 IITs and the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad. CBSE chairperson Vineet Joshi said the results were announced after examining candidate feedback on the questions and answer keys. The board had put out the answer keys on Monday. Hundreds of students have complained alleging mistakes in the questions or answer keys. “All the questions and answers have been verified. We will again put the final answer keys on our w

So, what do you think is the bitterest thing in the world? Well, obviously, the truth. But truths about life after IITs are not just bitter, they are deadly as well. Let’s take a look at those harrowing truths about life after IITs that haunt every strand of flesh of IITians. Bitter Truth 1 The life at IITs is entirely different from the life of the real world outside. It wreaks havoc on the very existence of every IITian who with passing time get attached to the inside life of an IIT. Trying to adjust to a different world outside is obviously like chewing on iron shells. You become a God of something that people don’t know about but, on the contrary, you, too, miss out on millions of small things that they are God of. Getting along becomes tough. Bitter Truth 2 You might have been the best in the campus. Step out of it once and you will know you are competing with many geniuses like yourself. You are no longer being appreciated for your unprecedented talent simply because yo

The result of the VITEEE 2014 was announced on May 1st, 2014 by Vellore Institute of Technology. And a day later, the news has already sent a wave of unending shock and speculations after a number of candidates declared the results to be not based on merits. A number of VITEEE 2014 candidates have taken to all social networking sites to express their agony over the alleged speculations. Facebook, the leading social networking site, is currently overflowing with the comments made by the candidates unhappy over the entire scene. To find out the truth, AskIITians took the matter in its hands and spoke to a couple of VITEEE 2014 candidates. “Only 10% of total admissions in VIT are done by the test conducted by VIT while the remaining 90% are done by donations,” said one of the VITEEE candidates. Tampering with admission process in Indian education is not new. However, the alleged revelation coming straight from the students has made us think once again whether the admission process

The All India Pre-Medical/Pre-Dental Entrance Test (AIPMT) 2014, your gateway to MBBS or BDS degree, exam date is approaching: May 5, 2014. The AIPMT 2014 scores will be used for admission to 15 per cent of undergraduate Medical and Dental course seats in Government Medical/Dental Colleges of India in addition to participating State Government's Universities/Institutes. Although the exam seems right around the corner, it's never too late for smart revision. Here are some tips! Paper Pattern:  AIPMT 2014 test consists of 180 objective-type multiple choice questions from Physics, Chemistry and Biology (Botany and Zoology) to be answered in 3 hours. The syllabus is based on topics both from Class 11 and Class 12. Syllabus: Physics - 45 questions   Class XI:  Physical World and Measurement; Kinematics; Laws of Motion; Work, Energy and Power; Motion of System of Particles and Rigid Body; Gravitation; Properties of Bulk Matter; Thermodynamics; Behavior of Perfect Gas and

M Shanthi, a resident of Anna Nagar has already spent two sleepless nights as her son M Rajesh was to face a written examination for school admission in a government-aided school on Wednesday. Her anxiety would prevail for the next two days until the school administration announces the results. And all this anxiety is to gain admission for Class 1 in a prominent aided school in the city. Rajesh's parents have been desperate to get admission in that particular school since their elder son is already studying Class 6 there and it would be easier for them to arrange for transport. Like Shanthi, a large number of parents in the city are undergoing sleepless nights aiming for a school of their choice. Every year, LKG admission in reputed private and government-aided schools is a herculean task for the parents. With the admission season on, parents start struggling to get seats in schools of their choice and throng them. Many schools witness parents queuing up in the last few weeks

Born to a carpenter in a dusty village called Jobner in Rajasthan, this boy never thought he could crack IIT. Now that he has done that, electrical engineer Rajesh Jangid has decided to sell his metaphorical Ferrari and become a teacher in his village. His dream; to have more IITians in his homeland. Jangid, a Hindi medium student since childhood, has completed electrical engineering in IIT-Gandhinagar with good grades. And here lies the twist; instead of a high flying career as an IITian, Jangid has opted to go back to his village and open a coaching centre! "Along with classmate Sanjay Gill, we are setting up a centre for talented but poor students in my village. We will start with improving their language skills and prepare them for IIT," he explained. Jangid's father, a daily wage worker since 18, has been earning just about Rs 8000 since years now. Jangid studied in a government school in village Kodi, and secured 89% in class 8. That ensured a place in a better sch

Chinese students will be able to sit for the college entrance exam in Braille, the ministry of education has announced. Human Rights Watch described this week’s directive as an important breakthrough after years of campaigning by disability rights advocates in China, where educational and employment discrimination are rife. While a few blind students have studied at university, the vast majority have been effectively barred from higher education because there was no provision for them. While all children are in theory entitled to the same education, parents and campaigners say there is scant means for redress when institutions refuse to enrol students with disabilities or give them the support they need. According to Human Rights Watch, 28 per cent of children with disabilities are not receiving even a basic education. “Making exams accessible to the blind would help to minimise discrimination against and maximise respect for people with disabilities in China,” said Sop

National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, will soon have an extension centre in the city for the institute's non-classroom activities. The state government has decided to allot a one-acre plot for the proposed building at Chandrasekhapur at a nominal ground rent of Rs 300 per year. NIT has to complete construction on the centre within three years, a state government order issued on April 24 said. Confirming the institute's plan for the city, NIT director Sunil Sarangi said Bhubaneswar being well-connected by air, rail and road with other parts of the country, a centre in the state capital would help NIT undertake several activities through the extension campus here. The institute will formalize its exact construction plan after meeting the statutory requirements in phases, he said. Sarangi said NIT has been conducting numerous short-term courses for teachers of engineering colleges. Since a substantial number of the colleges are concentrated in and around Bhubaneswar,

Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati was ranked at the 87th position among the top 100 world universities – under 50 years of age – published by London-based Times Higher Eductaion (THE) magazine on 30 April 2014. With this entry into the list, the IIT-Guwahati has taken India in the list of top 100 under 50 University rankings. It is the first and only Indian entry in the list and it shares the 87th rank with Portugal's New University of Lisbon and Australia's University of Western Sydney.   The list was topped by Korea's Pohang University of Science and Technology for the third consecutive year in the annual evaluation of the world's top 100 universities less than 50 years of age. • Second position - retained by Switzerland's Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne • Third position - South Korean institute named Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology • Fourth position - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology of Hong Kong  • Fifth posit

The results for VITEEE 2014 will be announced on Thursday, i.e. May 1. Candidates who appeared for the examination can check their results on the official website of VIT university: http://www.vit.ac.in/ A merit list, ranking candidates, will be released based on total marks secured in VITEEE 2014. The rank secured by the candidate will be intimated to him/her via SMS on the mobile number provided in the application. There will be no provision for re-totaling or re-grading of the answer sheets nor will they be made available for scrutiny. The scores of VITEEE 2014 will be used for admission to the 14 engineering programmes offered by Vellore Institute of Technology at its two branches in Vellore and Chennai. The examination was conducted between April 9, 2014 and April 20, 2014 with multiple test dates. The admission counseling is set to begin from May 19, 2014. B. Tech specialisation offered: 1. Bio-Medical Engineering 2. Biotechnology 3. Civil Engineering 4. Computer Scienc

Around 1,100 engineering aspirants from around the country challenged the answer key of the Joint Entrance Exam (Main) question papers uploaded online by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Monday evening. While students claimed they were given less than 24 hours for the review, which was insufficient, the board said it was just an additional facility offered for the first time. The board released the answer key around 8pm on Monday, though it was supposed to put it up on the JEE (Main) website at 2pm. Students were supposed to get around 27 hours to study the key, but got six hours less. Only 1,106 students challenged the key till 5pm on Tuesday. "We do not know if the board will accept these challenges. Even if they do, there is hardly any time left for them to consider them," said an engineering aspirant from Andheri. The results are expected to be announced on Saturday. Another student noted that every mark counts as only the top 1.5 lakh students from JEE

K Anitha, student of a private CBSE school from K K Nagar is aware that scoring higher marks in CBSE pattern is not easy. Compared to the state board syllabus scoring higher marks is difficult in CBSE. However, she chose CBSE since she wants to gain knowledge more than marks. Parents who support CBSE pattern say that it offers more than what textbooks offer. They chose CBSE over the state syllabus despite knowing the fact that it would not help their wards get admissions in state-run institutions, where marks play a vital role. "More than marks, knowledge matters more. 'Samacheer' syllabus pattern would help students score more marks. It would help them obtain a seat in state institutions. However, when you go for central institutions and reputed private institutions, CBSE syllabus would help more as the students will have to face entrance examination," K Rajaram, a member of parent teacher association from Kamarajar Salai claimed. C Muthiah, principal, Kendriya Vidy

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) was supposed to release the answer key for the Joint Entrance Exam (Main) on Friday, but now it will be released only on Monday. The board made students' optical mark recognition (OMR) sheets of the pen-and-paper test available to them on Friday. Students can challenge the recorded responses if these differ from the ones marked by them. The challenge of scanned images will be accepted by the board only till 2pm on Monday, after which the answer key would be made available for a day. The answer key will be up till 5 pm on Tuesday. Students are awaiting the release of the answer key from the board as it would help verify the existence of errors said to have been found in the question paper in the pen-and-paper exam. The candidates can also challenge the answer key by 5 pm on April 29. A fee of Rs 1,000 will be charged per question. If the challenge is accepted by the board, the money will be refunded. Students who have still not su