Hindustan Times

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Indian Institute of Technology open exam process to students

Results of the IIT's Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) - one of the most keenly contested examinations in the country just got more transparent. Taking note of the numerous queries filed under the Right to Information Act (RTI) regarding its admission procedure, IIT Joint Admission Board has decided to release the cut-off scores for individual subjects and different streams on its website.

Applicants can now get to know the cut-off scores in individual subjects like physics, maths or chemistry and also aggregate cut offs for streams like computer, electronics, mechanical and civil engineering. For the 2007 entrance exam, the institute had posted their question papers and correct answers on their site.

The first detailed score sheets will be released on August 1 at 8 pm on the institute's website www.iitg.ernet.in for students who appeared for the 2008 entrance exam. The score sheets will show the opening and closing ranks of different branches for every category, general and reserved.

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Thursday, July 10, 2008

Fourth list: Seats still left in top-draw BCom

There is some hope left for those who were not able to get through in the first three rounds of admissions in Delhi University There are still a few seats left in several colleges all over the city, including coveted ones in north and south campus for popular courses like English(H), History(H), Hindi and Political Science(H).

Colleges like Hans Raj, Hindu, Kirori Mal, Moti Lal Nehru, PGDAV Ram Lal Anand, Ramjas, Satyawati Co-ed, Khalsa, Zakir Husain and Deshbandhu still have seats available in different courses. While in Hans Raj admissions are still open in BCom(H), Mathematics(H) and Sanskrit(H), Hindu has declared a fourth list for BA Programme, BCom(H), English(H), History(H), Mathematics(H) and Sociology(H). The cutoffs marks have further dropped by 1-2 per cent.

But the fourth cutoff list still managed to throw up a few surprises. Delhi University's fourth cutoff list for academic year 2008-2009 has turned the BCom(H) admission prediction on its head. This course was tagged as one of the most sought after subjects at the time of common form analysis. However, this seems far from the truth as many top campus colleges continue to remain open for admission to BCom(H).

Commerce courses

Hansraj College, Hindu College, Kirori Mal College and Daulat Ram College - which are some of the most popular colleges for BCom(H) after Shri Ram College of Commerce - are the four north campus institutions that have dropped their cutoff by 0.25 to 1 per cent in the general category Hindu College, which had in fact the highest number (23,850 candidates) of applications through the centralised form for this course, has decreased its qualifying marks from 93.5-96.5 per cent to 93.25-96.25 per cent. Off-campus institutions such as Maharaja Agrasen and College of Vocational Studies have brought down their cutoff percentage by another .5-1 per cent.

Science courses

Science courses have still not found many takers. According to the fourth list, there are still seats left in popular science courses like Physics(H), Chemistry(H), Botany and Electronics(H).

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Labels: admissions, BCom, commerce courses, Delhi University, graduate students, Hansraj College, Hindu College, Kirori Mal College and Daulat Ram College, science courses, seats, top courses

Thursday, June 26, 2008

B Com (Horns) cutoffs fall in top colleges

Commerce students aiming to get into popular Delhi University colleges can heave a sigh of relief. The cut-off marks for B.Com(H) have fallen by .25 per cent in SRCC (94.5 per cent), Hindu (94 per cent) and Hans Raj College (94 per cent).

The only college to drastically raise its cutoff is Lady Shri Ram (LSR) College, where B. Com (H) cutoff has risen by 1.5 per cent to 95.5 from last year's 94 per cent.

A few others have increased their cut-off marks from .25 to .5 per cent. In contrast the BCom (Programme) cut-off marks have increased in all colleges ranging from .5 per cent at Sri Venkateswara to 8 per cent in Maitreyi.

BA (H) Economics has also seen an increase in most colleges barring SRCC, Hans Raj and IP College for Women. LSR has the highest cutoff at 94 per cent for humanities and science students. For Commerce students it is 98 per cent. SRCC has decreased its economics cut-off to 92.75 per cent for humanities students and 95.75 per cent for commerce students.

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Labels: admissions, BA(H), BCom, commerce, commerce students, cut-off marks, delhi, Delhi University colleges, economics, Lady Shri Ram College, SRCC, top colleges

Friday, June 20, 2008

Delhi students may lose out on top courses

Applicants from the city far out number outstation students seeking admission to Delhi University this year. But outstation students stand a better chance of getting the top courses in the sought-after colleges.

An analysis of the centralised common pre-admission forms reveals that the ratio of local and outstation applicants is around 70:30 this year. "After introducing pin codes in the optical mark reader forms this year, we've tracked the number of applications coming from Delhi, which does not include NCR. We have 64,090 forms from Delhi and 27,000 from outside Delhi," said Suman Verma, Joint Dean (students welfare).

Regional affiliations don't guarantee city students a seat in Delhi University's top courses or popular colleges, say principals.

"A lot of Delhi candidates do apply but the best courses are taken by outstation candidates with high scores," said Sri Ram College of Commerce Principal P Jain. "We have applicants .C. from Tamil Nadu and West Bengal Boards with scores of 95 per cent and more. Since boards across the country have witnessed good results this year, Delhi students are bound to lose out."

In 2007, only 110 students from Delhi made it to SRCC against 203 outstation ones. Ramjas College Principal Rajendra Prasad confirms a strong representation of outstation candidates this year. "We have numerous candidates from state Boards with 92 per cent and above and they will definitely land good courses at DU."

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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Three new IITs coming, but where is the infrastructutre?

Here's another example of the clumsy manner in which the HRD ministry handles India's most prestigious institutions of higher education. Three new IITs are opening next month, but no buildings, infrastructure or faculty befitting the global brand is in place yet.

Three existing IITs - Guwahati, Madras and Delhi - have been made ‘mentor institutions' for the new institutes at Patna, Medak and Rajasthan.

Faculty from the Guwahati and Madras IITs will be deployed to teach at makeshift campuses at Patna and Medak. IIT Rajasthan doesn't even have a ‘makeshift campus', and will debut from its mentor's campus at IIT Delhi.

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Labels: admissions, faculty mess, higher education, infrastructutre, Medak, mentor institution, new IITs, Patna, Rajasthan, students

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Admission overhaul soon

The Central government has finalised a bill that proposes to fix the minimum age for admission to preschool at 3 years and 10 months.

The draft Right To Education Bill, which will be put up for cabinet consideration in May would also protect parents and children from screening by schools and prescribes huge fines in case of violation.

Prepared by the Human Resource Development Ministry, the bW says the minimum admission age for Class I should be 5 years and 10 months before the beginning of the academic year This implies the admission age for preschool would be 3 years and 10 months.

Last year, the Delhi government fixed 3 years as age for admission to pre-school, 4 for pre-primary and 5 for Class I.

The bill, which aims at implementing the Right to Education guaranteed by the Constitution in 2002, shields parents from arbitrary admission rules of private schools. If found subjecting parents or children to screening, the school will be fined Rs 25,000. A repeat offence will invite a fine of up to Rs 50,000. If a school is found guilty of taking capitation fee, the fine will be up to ten times of what it charged.

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Labels: admissions, central government, childern, education, parents, pre schools, private schools

Thursday, April 17, 2008

9 percent OBC quota at IITs this year

Seven Branches of IIT will reserve nine percent seats for OBC category students in the 2008-09 academic session, a joint admission board decided in a meeting on Wednesday. Directors of the seven IITs, along with representatives of IT BHU and ISM Dhanbad said that admissions into the JEE 2008 will be done taking into account the reservation for OBC category students.

However, the three new IITs, proposed in Rajasthan, Bihar and Andhra Pradesh will implement 27 per cent reservation. "The new IITs will take in 50 percent general category students and the rest will be from SC, ST and OBC categories. But the existing IITs will implement the entire 27 per cent reservation by 2010," said Prof Surendra Prasad, director, IIT Delhi.

The IITs will have to double the existing strength of faculty in order to cope with the extra students. "At IIT Delhi we have a sanctioned strength of 556 faculty positions and roughly 420 are filled," said Prasad. "If we plan to implement 27 per cent OBC quota by 2010 we will need to double faculty strength in the next two years."

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Labels: 2008-09 academic session, admissions, IITs, JEE 2008, joint admission board, OBC category, OBC quota, reservation, seats, Seven Branches of IIT, students

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