The IIT-Delhi, which is organizing IIT-JEE 2012, has invited all IIT directors for a workshop on Friday, where an online model will be demonstrated. The JEE office is hosting the workshop. Sources from IIT-Delhi have confirmed that Education Testing Services (ETS), which conducts the GRE and several other popular global online examinations, will make a presentation at the workshop.

Most officials on record denied plans to go online with JEE. A senior official from one of the IITs claimed that the workshop was scheduled to discuss the possibilities of an online examination for JEE. “We might just discuss the feasibility. No decision has been taken,” said the official.

A senior IIT-B professor said, “An online exam may or may not work for JEE. While CAT faced teething problems initially, it is stabilized now. For an exam, where you need to calculate a lot, pen and paper seems to be a better option. But students these days are well versed with technology and in future, everything might be computerized.”

Currently, only two directors have responded to the invitation, claimed an official from IIT-Delhi. “Experts from ETS will make a presentation and showcase their testing systems. It is a successful testing pattern in the US. But there will not be any overnight decision on JEE going online,” said the official.

Two seats for SCs and 27 seats for STs remained vacant as the candidates could not secure 40 per cent marks in the Joint Entrance test, the minimum requirement for admission to any medical college as per the guideline laid down by Medical council of India (MCI), the sources said today.

Tripura Higher Education Minister Anil Sarkar said to resolve the standoff over admission in reserved seats in AGMC, a fresh Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) on PCB group will now be conducted by September 24.

Sarkar said ST/SC students who had secured 40 percent marks in this year’s Higher Secondary (+2) examinations would be allowed to appear in the fresh JEE.

“The all-party meeting, which met today following request from the council of ministers, was in favour of holding fresh JEE on PCB group for ST/SC students”, he said.

Earlier, the all-party meeting decided to review the results of this year’s Joint Entrance Examinations. But the Council of Ministers had discussed various options yesterday to get over the impasse and referred the matter to the all-party committee.

Sarkar said that the last decision of all-party committee would be conveyed to the Medical Council of India (MCI) very shortly.

The government was in favour of completing the admission process by September 30, a day before the last scheduled time for admission to MBBS course.

From 2012, applicants would also be allowed to carry a copy of optic response sheet on which answers are inscribed immediately after the examination. Also, answers can be circled by pen, instead of pencil as is being done now. These decisions were taken on Friday by the IIT joint admission board (JAB). Next year’s JEE would be conducted by IIT-Delhi. IITs had initiated reforms in small measures from last year. For instance, answers were put out by the JAB before the results came out. However, it was done 35 days after the test. Also, the scanned copies of optic response sheet of candidates were put on JAB website after the result. But errors, worth 30 marks, were also pointed out.

IITs could feel fresh heat on carrying out more reforms as the Supreme Court has set aside theDelhi High Court order that dismissed a PIL by Rajeev Kumar of IIT-Kharagpur. HC had said Kumar does not have the locus standi to demand reforms in JEE. However, last week a SC bench of Justice G S Singhvi said, “The High Court was not justified in non-suiting the appellant on the ground of lack of locus without even adverting to the averments made by him that he was a professor in the Indian Institute of Technology- Kharagpur, that his son and daughter had appeared in the Joint Entrance Examinations conducted in 2006 and 2010 respectively and that he was interested in ensuring that the Joint Entrance Examination is conducted in a transparent and fair manner so that meritorious students may not suffer.” The matter has since gone back to the Delhi HC.

In his PIL, Kumar had demanded that JAB should release model answers along with solutions immediately after the examination. He also wanted an investigation into the irregularities, tampering and fraud in the conduct of JEE and in granting admissions in IITs. Kumar had also prayed for setting up of a committee of independent experts to prescribe a rational system for determination of subject cut-offs and for eliminating other discrepancies and irregularities.

Speaking to Deccan Chronicle on Thursday, Prof V. G. Idichandy, deputy director, IIT-M, said the Union government had asked Dr T. Ramasami, secretary, ministry of science and technology, to evolve modalities for conducting a single entrance test for admitting students to all higher education institutions in the country.

But then, some IIT administrators have been demanding that the IITs be allowed to hold a separate joint entrance examination (JEE) “so that we can get the top one lakh students who clear the CET”, Prof Idichandy said.

He said, “About 15 lakh students may take the CET but if a student wants to join IIT, he needs to be one among the top one lakh who clear the test and he may be asked to sit again for JEE as we want to admit only the best students.

IITs are special and we serve as centres of excellence, so we want to conduct our own entrance examination. But ultimately everything rests with the IIT council which governs all IITs”.

He however admitted that the IITians were divided in conducting a separate entrance test for IITs.

Source : Deccan Chronicle

MODIFIED SCHEDULE FOR SEAT ALLOTMENT TO INCLUDE A THIRD ROUND OF SEAT ALLOTMENT

Minimum Qualifying Mark for Ranking (MQMR) and Aggregate Cut-off : JEE-2010

Aggregate Total of Different Categories (500th for GE and 100th for OBC /SC/ ST/ PD) : JEE-2010

Marks of the first ranked candidate in JEE 2010 merit list

Marks of the last ranked candidate in JEE 2010 merit list

The decision came following the health ministry’s opposition to the plan announced by HRD minister Kapil Sibal. “We still maintain that the test should be common and we are hopeful that we can convince the health ministry by 2012. But because of their opposition, we were running out of time to work on a common test for 2011,” a senior HRD ministry official said.

Keeping in mind the complexity in holding multiple examinations, Sibal had announced his ministry’s  decision in June 2010, to hold  a single entrance examination for engineering and pre-medical entrance examinations for the students after passing out XIIth standard from 2011.

It was aimed at reducing the students’ workload besides cutting down on the cost of holding these examinations.

The AIEEE is the world’s largest such examination. The National Institutes of Technology and other Central engineering colleges admit students on the basis of their AIEEE scores. Even states fill 50% of their seats in government colleges through AIEEE. Over 12 lakh students appeared for the AIEEE last year.

Similarly, most of the Central medical schools admit students on the basis of their AIPMT scores. States, too, fill 50% of their seats in government medical colleges through AIPMT. It is the largest medical examination in India. Many students appear for both the AIPMT and AIEEE to keep their academic options open.

Sibal’s plan involved allowing such students to appear for just physics and chemistry papers just once, along with maths and biology, instead of appearing for physics and chemistry independently in the AIEEE and the AIPMT. However, the health ministry has opposed the plan and even opposed the move in the Supreme Court.

JOINT ENTRANCE EXAMINATION 2011 (JEE-2011)

(Undergraduate Courses Admissions at IITs, IT-BHU Varanasi and ISM Dhanbad)

The Indian Institutes of Technology (popularly known as IITs) are institutions of national importance established through an Act of Parliament for fostering excellence in education.  There are fifteen IITs at present, located in Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Delhi, Gandhinagar, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jodhpur, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Mandi, Mumbai, Patna, Ropar and Roorkee. Over the years IITs have created world class educational platforms dynamically sustained through internationally recognized research based on excellent infrastructural facilities.

The admissions to the Undergraduate Programmes at these institutions for all Indian and Foreign nationals are made through the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE).

Schedule of JEE-2011

The examination will be held on Sunday, April 10, 2011 as per the schedule given below:

The schedule will remain unaltered even if the above date is declared a public holiday

Type of Examination

There will be two question papers, each of three hours duration. Both the question papers will consist of three separate sections on Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics. They will be of objective type, designed to test comprehension, reasoning and analytical ability of candidates.

The answers for each of the questions are to be recorded on a separate, specially designed, machine-gradable sheet of paper (ORS – Optical Response Sheet). While answering each of the questions the candidate is expected to darken the bubble(s) against correct answer(s) using hard black (HB) pencils only. In some sections, incorrect answers may be awarded negative marks.

The detailed syllabi based on which JEE-2011 will be conducted, for the three subjects, namely, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics.

For More details visit : http://jee.iitr.ernet.in/

The qualifying score in the open category has climbed from 178 in 2009 to 190 in (this year) 2010. It implies that the last candidate on the open merit list has scored 190 out of a total of 480. For the other backward categories (OBCs), the merit list cut-off stands at 171 — a 10-mark climb from last year’s 161.

The cut-offs for reserved category candidates (scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and candidates with physical disabilities) have gone up by a nominal 2%. The qualifying mark for SC/ST/PD candidates had been 18% (89/480) last year. This time, it is nearly 20% (95/480).

The IITs give the SC/ST/PD candidates a 50% relaxation on the score of the last-ranking general category candidate. Those who still fail to qualify are given a further 50% relaxation, and sent to the preparatory course. This year, the number of SC candidates qualifying has exceeded the number of available seats. But for STs/PDs, the cut-offs have been lowered by another 50% (48/480) for the preparatory course.

Although subject wise cut-offs continue to remain low, though they have improved a bit from those of 2009. For SC/ST/PD candidates, cut-offs have gone up from six (Chemistry and Mathematics) and four (Physics) in 2009 to 10 (Physics and Chemistry) and nine (Mathematics). The IITs have often been criticised for their low subject cut-offs.

Mechanics: Kinematics in one and two dimensions (Cartesian coordinates only), projectiles; Uniform Circular motion; Relative velocity.

Newton’s laws of motion; Inertial and uniformly accelerated frames of reference; Static and dynamic friction; Kinetic and potential energy; Work and power; Conservation of linear momentum and mechanical energy.

Systems of particles; Centre of mass and its motion; Impulse; Elastic and inelastic collisions.

Law of gravitation; Gravitational potential and field; Acceleration due to gravity; Motion of planets and satellites in circular orbits; Escape velocity.
Rigid body, moment of inertia, parallel and perpendicular axes theorems, moment of inertia of uniform bodies with simple geometrical shapes; Angular momentum; Torque; Conservation of angular momentum; Dynamics of rigid bodies with fixed axis of rotation; Rolling without slipping of rings, cylinders and spheres; Equilibrium of rigid bodies; Collision of point masses with rigid bodies. Linear and angular simple harmonic motions.

Hooke’s law, Young’s modulus.

Pressure in a fluid; Pascal’s law; Buoyancy; Surface energy and surface tension, capillary rise; Viscosity (Poiseuille’s equation excluded), Stoke’s law; Terminal velocity, Streamline flow, equation of continuity, Bernoulli’s theorem and its applications.

Wave motion (plane waves only), longitudinal and transverse waves, superposition of waves; Progressive and stationary waves; Vibration of strings and air columns; Resonance; Beats; Speed of sound in gases; Doppler effect (in sound).

Thermal physics: Thermal expansion of solids, liquids and gases; Calorimetry, latent heat; Heat conduction in one dimension; Elementary concepts of convection and radiation; Newton’s law of cooling; Ideal gas laws; Specific heats (Cv and Cp for monoatomic and diatomic gases); Isothermal and adiabatic processes, bulk modulus of gases; Equivalence of heat and work; First law of thermodynamics and its applications (only for ideal gases);  Blackbody radiation: absorptive and emissive powers; Kirchhoff’s law; Wien’s displacement law, Stefan’s law.

Electricity and magnetism: Coulomb’s law; Electric field and potential; Electrical potential energy of a system of point charges and of electrical dipoles in a uniform electrostatic field; Electric field lines; Flux of electric field; Gauss’s law and its application in simple cases, such as, to find field due to infinitely long straight wire, uniformly charged infinite plane sheet and uniformly charged thin spherical shell.

Capacitance; Parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectrics; Capacitors in series and parallel; Energy stored in a capacitor.

Electric current; Ohm’s law; Series and parallel arrangements of resistances and cells; Kirchhoff’s laws and simple applications; Heating effect of current.

Biot–Savart’s law and Ampere’s law; Magnetic field near a current-carrying straight wire, along the axis of a circular coil and inside a long straight solenoid; Force on a moving charge and on a current-carrying wire in a uniform magnetic field.

Magnetic moment of a current loop; Effect of a uniform magnetic field on a current loop; Moving coil galvanometer, voltmeter, ammeter and their conversions.

Electromagnetic induction: Faraday’s law, Lenz’s law; Self and mutual inductance; RC, LR and LC circuits with d.c. and a.c. sources.

Optics: Rectilinear propagation of light; Reflection and refraction at plane and spherical surfaces; Total internal reflection; Deviation and dispersion of light by a prism; Thin lenses; Combinations of mirrors and thin lenses; Magnification.

Wave nature of light: Huygen’s principle, interference limited to Young’s double-slit experiment.

Modern physics: Atomic nucleus; Alpha, beta and gamma radiations; Law of radioactive decay;  Decay constant; Half-life and mean life; Binding energy and its calculation; Fission and fusion processes; Energy calculation in these processes.

Photoelectric effect; Bohr’s theory of hydrogen-like atoms; Characteristic and continuous X-rays, Moseley’s law; de Broglie wavelength of matter waves.