Friday, February 17, 2017

Soon, take engg entrance tests several times a year

Soon, take engg entrance tests several times a year

NEW DELHI: Students aspiring to study at the country’s top engineering colleges are likely to get multiple opportunities in a single year to crack the tough entrance exam.
The move will significantly shrink an aspirant’s waiting time for the next test in case of failure to clear the first attempt at the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main — conducted for admission to NITs, IITs and other centrally funded institutions.

For instance, if back-toback exams are conducted in December, February and April, a candidate will be allowed to write all of them, or she can opt for one or two. The best marks from any of the three tests will account for the student’s all-India ranking, which decides her eligibility for admission.

The National Testing Service (NTS), a new overarching agency that the government announced in its annual budget this February to conduct all entrance exams for higher education institutions, might hold the JEE Main fully online from the next academic session.

 The format will allow the NTS to hold the engineering test at least thrice a year, sources said. That way a student would not have to spend a full year studying for the test again.
At present, a student has the option of writing the JEE Main online or offline, but the exam is conducted just once a year. But only 125,000 of the almost 1 million students opt to take the test online.
“To ensure greater transparency and avoid instances of paper leak, the ministry is planning to conduct examinations through NTS on an online mode,” said a senior official in the human resource development ministry.

Sources said the NTS is likely to conduct all entrance examinations — including JEE, CAT, and UGC-NET — online from 2018.

Education experts welcomed the move, underscoring that several global screening tests such as the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and TOEFL are conducted up to seven times a year.
“This will ensure that a candidate is able to give his/her best if there are specific testing windows,” said Soumitra Roy of Prometric India, a global agency that had conducted tests such as CAT for premier business schools.

“This must be done provided there is adequate physical and technical infrastructure in a country like India with different demographics.”

To ensure students from rural areas don’t face obstacles in taking the online exam, NTS will help prepare them with through round-the-clock call centre support.

“NTS will establish an online testing mechanism which will be able to conduct online tests for at least 1 million students at a time with suitable systems for proctoring, instant display of marks and preparation of the merit list,” an official said.

The online system will ensure better safety mechanisms, according to Bipin Batra, executive director of the National Board of Examinations (NBE), which conducts entrance tests such as NEET PG and NEET Super Specialty for medical students.

Source: Hindustan Times, 17th February, 2017
Link: http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx


Thursday, February 16, 2017

LIRC Offering Scholar's Card and Merit Card Facility


Please Note…….

LEARNING & INFORMATION RESOURCE CENTRE   are offering –“Scholar’s Card” facility to first three toppersand theMerit Card“ facility to those students who have a GPA of =>8.6of respective branches every semester as a token of appreciation of their efforts.
The Privileges of book loan are as follows:
Topper
Privilege
Loan Period
1st Topper
3 extra library cards(Total 5 cards)
1 Week
2nd Topper
2 extra library cards(Total 4 cards)
1 Week
3rd Topper
1 extra library cards(Total 3 cards)
1 Week
GPA of =>8.6
1 extra library cards(Total 3 cards)
1 Week

Rules (for over-dues, reference and book care) remain the same for the above.
These cards will not be valid after the end of the particular semester.



Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Programme in IT Training by IIT-B

PROGRAMME IN IT TRAINING BY IIT-B

The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay’s (IIT-B’s) Spoken Tutorial Project has started an IT training programme in collaboration with VG Vaze Arts and Science College in Mulund and spatial technologies company, Cybertech Systems and Software Ltd. The programme will be held at laboratory of Vaze College.
The one-year programme aims to provide IT training to IT and non-IT students across the country.
Using Spoken Tutorials, which are essentially a collection of ten-minute long audio-video tutorials, students will be trained in programming languages, office tools and graphic and circuit design tools, in a simple and interesting manner.
To sign up for the programme and know more, visit www.geocivic.in.

Source: Hindustan Times dated 8th February, 2017

Link: http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

List of Active Users for the Month January 2017


Every month we select users who have made maximum use of the library. Below are our active users for the month of January. The below users are entitled for 1 extra book.
Sr. No.

Member No. of Transactions
1 CHOUDHARY SANTOSH RAMJANAM SARSWATI 13
2 KHAN ARBAZ SALEEM YASMEEN 13
3 CHAUHAN AMAN KISHAN MAYA 12
4 NIRAJ YADAV 12
5 AISHWARYA NAMBIAR 12
6 TEJASWARARAO MOTAMARRI 11
7 SAYALI JAWRE 11
8 ASST.PROF.RAMJEE YADAV 11
9 MISHRA NILESH MARKANDAY DHARMAVATI 11
10 SAWANT SHIVANI SANDEEP SUMEDHA 10
11 SINGH SATYAM RAJNARAYAN MAYA 10
12 SHAILIN SHAH 10
13 ASST.PROF.PRIYANCA GONSALVES 10
14 SONALI PARAB 9
15 KULKARNI OMKAR SANTOSH RAJASHREE 9
16 SARVESH NARKAR 9
17 HRISHIKESH MAHESH TELANG 9

MU to evaluate answer books online from next exams



Source: The Indian Express dated January 29, 2017

http://epaper.indianexpress.com/c/16667145

Friday, December 23, 2016

Govt plans single entrance exam for all engineering colleges from 2018

The government is considering conducting a single entrance examination for admission to all engineering colleges, including private institutions, across the country.
The proposed joint entrance examination (JEE) for engineering colleges, which is said to be human resource development (HRD) minister Prakash Javadekar brainchild, could kick in from 2018.
The test, pending clearance, will be on the lines of the national eligibility-cum-entrance exam (NEET) for entry into medical colleges, sources in the HRD ministry said.
It is aimed at bringing transparency to the admission procedure, including checking the practice in some private institutions of extracting a heavy capitation fee from students.
“The aim is to make the process more transparent, standardised, and free of corruption and commercialisation,” a government official said.
India has more than 3,300 approved engineering colleges affiliated to universities, with an annual approved intake of above 1.6 million students. But only about half of the seats are filled.
The current admission process at the graduation level is dependent on performance in entrance examinations conducted by various agencies.
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) conducts the JEE-Main for centre-funded institutions. More than 1.3 million students write this examination every year.
The top-rankers from JEE-Main are eligible to write the JEE-Advanced for the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). In the new system, students aspiring for the IITs will have to pass the nationwide common entrance test with high marks and take the JEE-Advanced.
These apart, a number of states conduct their own test. Others grant admission based on marks obtained in class 12.
Several private colleges have their individual entrance examinations. But “some of them, which are self-financed, charge high fees or sell seats in the name of management or NRI quota at a premium”, a source said.
Only a handful of students crack the tough exams set for top colleges such as the IITs, leaving thousands of aspiring engineers to dash for private institutions, many of which are notorious teaching shops.
These colleges have become a magnet for mostly middle-class families in a country where an engineering degree is considered a ticket to a lifetime of fat pay cheques or jobs in the US.
Some of the private colleges admit students without basic talent and aptitude for engineering, affecting overall quality, the source said.
Of the 737,000 graduates in 2014-15, only half found employment. Most of the students didn’t meet expectations of companies offering jobs.
The proposal for a single, nationwide test is viewed as an attempt to streamline the dysfunctional education system. It was discussed at a recent meeting of officials from the HRD ministry and the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the regulator for engineering colleges.
The council will issue regulations for the examination. Issues such as the number of times the examination would be conducted in a year and the minimum qualification marks are yet to be worked out.
A source said the AICTE is planning to conduct web-based counselling sessions for admissions to engineering colleges based on students’ all-India ranking obtained in the entrance examination.
“States would be invited to join the counselling process to fill the seats in colleges under their jurisdiction,” the source said.
The states will be able to prescribe their admission criteria, apart from the score in the entrance test. The JEE score will, however, be the minimum eligibility criteria, the source said.
 Source: Hindustan Times dated 23 December, 2016.
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