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JEE (Mains)2014 first day online mode exam that was conducted on April 9 brought smiles for aspirants. Students found the computer based exam much easier than the offline exam that was held on April 6. Chemistry and Mathematics papers had no much tricky questions and physics was a tad simpler according to the examinees. Whereas in offline mode The chemistry paper was fairly easy, they said, but physics and mathematics sections were particularly difficult.  Around 1.72 lakh candidates had appeared for the first day of JEE Main 2014 online examination. Three more online tests will be held on April 11, 12 and 19. Students even found direct questions from NCERT test books of CBSE board and common questions from previous year question bank. Physics question paper that lengthier and difficult in the written test was comparatively easier in the computer-based exam Many candidates who took the exam in the online mode found the version better than written examination as the studen

The AUV being tested by students at IIT Bombay campus in Powai on Tuesday.  Students and faculty of IIT Bombay are working on an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), similar to one that was deployed to search the black box of the missing Malaysian Airlines plane, which can detect underwater sound source of the kind emitted by a black box. The Rs 22-lakh robotic submarine Matsya, unveiled Tuesday, has multiple applications, which include defence (monitoring, detection and surveillance), marine science research, oceanography studies, rescue operations, and constant monitoring and maintenance of underwater power lines, among others. “This is the third version of the vehicle and is the most advanced. We are currently focusing on product-level development. The latest version has hydro-phones or underwater microphones to detect sound in the water. The US had deployed similar AUVs in the Indian Ocean for searching the black box of MH370. A black box emits constant beeps for a month

VIT University will soon open a private university near Bangalore in Karnataka. The new university, which will initially offer BTech courses, will start functioning in the academic year 2015-16.  "The state has passed legislation required and we are now constructing the university. We are confident of setting up the facilities in a year," university chancellor G Viswanathan told reporters on Thursday.  Around 1.94 lakh candidates from across the country and overseas have registered for the VIT Engineering Entrance Exam this year. They will be competing for 4,100 BTech seats. Close to 1.66 lakh students took the test last year.  The candidates will take the exam at 137 centres in 112 Indian cities and in Kuwait and Dubai. Andhra Pradesh accounts for the most candidates, with 37,298. It is followed by Uttar Pradesh (28,337), Bihar (18,861), Maharashtra (14,801) and Rajasthan (12,839). In Tamil Nadu, 12,555 students have applied to take the exam .  "TN students are apprehe

Studying at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta will pinch more from the coming academic session. The premier institute on Saturday announced a hike in tuition fee for its two-year diploma programme from Rs 13.5 lakh to Rs 16.2 lakh-a jump of about 20%.  Foreign nationals who enroll in the PGPDM course by cracking GMAT will pay $50,000 (Rs 30,00,000), up from $40,000.  "We have decided to increase the fee after a gap of four years. We intend to bring the fee at par with IIM-A and IIM-B. We waited four years since we did not want the course fee to be hiked steeply at one go. Instead, we decided to occasionally calibrate the fee," said chairman of IIM-C board of governors Ajit Balakrishnan.  Currently, IIM Ahmedabad charges Rs 16.6 lakh and IIM Bangalore Rs 17 lakh for their two-year post graduate diploma programmes.  "IIM-C has increased the fee by 20% this year. The institute runs on profit. We have 15% surplus than other IIMs. The entire money is spent on providing

Soon, the incoming batches of young IITians will neither have to worry about remembering their timetable nor have to run around hunting for their classrooms. All they will have to do is to remember their roll numbers. Two second-year students of IIT Gandhinagar (IIT-Gn)- Shashank Pareta and Abhishek Verma -have created an application for smartphones called 'NexClass' that will not only inform the students of their next class but also guide them with a map to reach the specific classroom. All that a student has to do is to install the app in his phone and type his roll number in it. The app instantly notes the hour of the day and shows when and where the next class is, along with the name of the course. Upon swiping to the next screen, a map showing directions from the user's real-time location to their classroom pops up. "When we joined IIT-Gn, we had a hard time remembering the names of the courses, the names of the teachers, and their faces. It is not a small campus

More than 1.93 lakh engineering aspirants have registered to appear for the Vellore Institute of Technology Engineering Entrance Exam (VITEEE) 2014 which is being conducted online starting today, 9 April, till 20 April, 2014. These candidates will be competing for around 4,197 engineering seats in two campuses of VIT in Vellore and Chennai. VITEEE is an admission test conducted by VIT, Vellore. On the basis of scores obtained in VITEEE 2014, candidates get to engineering degree programs at VIT, leading to the award of the Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) and Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) VITEEE 2014 will be held in 112 cities across India and abroad (Dubai and Kuwait). Click to view complete list of exam centres in these 112 cities. Speaking at a press conference in Chennai while announcing the admissions to VIT, the chancellor of VIT University, G Viswanathan said that the number of registrations for VITEEE has increased from 1,66,978 applications (VITEEE 2013) to 1,93,790 ap

Everyone says that the student life is the best time of any person’s life, full of joy and happiness. But ask students! Is their lives just perfect? And they would deny in symphony! It is because of just one factor- exams. Exams vary from schools to college, they differ in patterns, they come in different shapes and sizes but their outcome is the same, fear and stress. While it would subjective to rank different exams according to their difficulty level, but we have got you a list of exams which are by far considered to be the toughest by the experts. Let us have a look at the same. 10. Mensa Mensa is the society of higher than the highest of the intellects. Roland Berrill, an Australian Barrister along with Dr Lancelot War, a British Lawyer cum Scientist, thought upon this idea of making a society with people who had an exceptional IQ (Intelligence Quotient). The society was established in 1946 and today it comprises of 110000 members ranging from over 50 countries around the wo

Vellore Institute of Technology is one of the leading technical institutes of the country. Vellore Institute of Technology Engineering Entrance Exam (VITEEE ) is an entrance exam for admission to bachelor engineering courses in Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT). VITEEE will be conducted online through April 9 to April 20. A multiple choice question has duration of two hour and thirty minutes. The test consisting of objective type multiple choice questions is segregated into three parts:  Part I: Physics  Part II: Chemistry  Part III: Mathematics Each part carries 40 questions for one mark each, totaling it to 120 marks.  Although the question paper is set based on the Class 12 Board Exam level and board exam examinees are already a step ahead, preparing for a completely objective online entrance exam is different and tougher. Education today have shortlisted a few tips and tricks to ace VITEEE 2014 NCERT books are considered to be great help for entrance exam as

                               Students who took the computer-based JEE test on Wednesday were a tad luckier than the offline test takers with straightforward questions in mathematics and chemistry and a comparatively simpler Physics paper.  After the written model of the exam was completed on Sunday, the first online Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) Mains, 2014, was held on Wednesday in different centres across the nation. Three more online tests will be held on April 11, 12 and 19 to cater to the around 5 lakh students appearing for the computer-based examinations, which is their gateway to undergraduate engineering programmes in the IITs, NITs, IIITs and other centrally-funded technical institutions in the country.  Most students said the chemistry and mathematics papers in the online exam were simpler than the offline test model. "Except for a few toughies in chemistry, the exams were easy," said Narayanan V Baradwaj, a student of DAV Boys Senior Secondary School in

Changing branches midway through the course has become the norm of many IITians. IITs also are on consonance with this immerging trend to help their students' persue studies in the stream of their choice, reported a daily. Dean, academics, IIT-Madras, K. Ramamurthy said that 10 per cent of the total number of students in a steam are allowed to shift branches. Linear ranking system of students based on their performance has made the competition so steep that the students are allotted branches in institutes based on their scores. Irrespective of the norms followed, the branches are left with vacancies because of students leaving. Therefore, to make use of the vacancies, IIT Madras has allowed the students to change branch if they want so. The students are approved to shift branches based on their performance in the first year. IIT-Kanpur is trending one step forward. It not only allows its students to shift branches, it allows them to shift even after two years. Students at

The parents of students who wrote their Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) (Main)-2014 from polytechnic centre in Ahmedabad have decided to seek retest for the students from the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) which conducts the exam. The parents also decided that if the CBSE fails to conduct the retest, they will challenge the same in the court and urge it to conduct the retest . At Government Polytechnic College in Panjrapol, trouble started when some English-medium students were asked to return their question papers almost immediately after distribution . JEE question papers are available in a combination of two languages in the state - either in English or Hindi, or in English and Gujarati. This, however, forced students to make corrections and overwrite on their OMR sheets which carry their roll numbers and serial numbers. Overwriting can lead to disqualifications. The principal of the polytechnic has also given in writing to the parents accepting that there was a sh

Percentile Difference between Percentage & Percentile & calculation of percentile: Percentage : As you all know percentage is a number out of 100.Percentage marks = (Obtained marks / Total marks) ×100 Percentile: Percentile score of a candidate reflects the number of students who have scored below that student in his/her own Board ( CBSE, ICSE etc..) Example: In a particular board 4000 candidates appeared in the examination.If a candidate obtained 70 % marks and 2000 students have scored below 70%, then the percentile of that student = (2000×100)/4000 = 50.0 Normalization of marks Step 1: Calculate percentile (P) of all the candidate of board XYZ who are eligible for the JEE (Main) exam, with reference to their board result. For a Board XYZ Total Number of the candidates appearing in board exam = 4000 Marks of candidates in Board Exam (m) Number of candidates who scored below the candidate (m) Percentile Calculation Percentile (p 1 ) 50% 1500 (15