JEE Advanced 2015:IITs Proposed New Eligibility Criteria
The prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are planning to change the eligibility criteria for admission to engineering courses in premier institutes of IIT. According to the new proposal, only those students who will score above 75% of marks in their class 12 board exams will be eligible for admission into the IITs. As per […]
IIT Guwahati Grieves Over Another Shocking Suicide Case!
GUWAHATI: There is no dearth of IIT suicide cases, and seems there is no end too. As the nation gets over the tragedy of one, another happens. In the latest case of IIT Guwahati, a first- semester student of one of the leading institutions of the country, was found dead on campus on Sunday. […]
The Back Bencher’s Tip to learn the Trigonometric Identities
All right! So, now you are planning to study the monster called trigonometry! I am sure majority of you would agree with me on this that trigonometry is a hard nut to crack! The concepts involved in it are not very hard but what makes it all the more challenging is that it is over […]
Why Our IITs Produce More Entrepreneurs Than Glorified U.S. Universities?
We hear stories of Ivy League institutions such as Cornell, Princeton, Yale, and so on, every now and then, from the aspiring students and their name and ways never fail to inspire us! What if I ask you to choose between them and our own IITs, which would you? Ah, wait here for a second. […]
Google Jams: An Unbiased Platform to Recruit both IITians and Non-IITians
There is no dearth of talent in our country. Where it is true that the cream students in the engineering field get admitted in IITs, but it doesn’t mean that there is no competition for them. At times, owing to financial conditions and lack of facilities, many a bright students do not get to pave […]
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): A Joint Initiative of IITs and IISc
This is a good news for the technology aspirants out there. The IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology) with the IISc (Indian Institute of Science) Bangalore, will deliver MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), as part of a project called NPTEL (National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning). The project which is funded by the HRD Ministry (Ministry […]
Counselling Session at AIPMT Ends with 858 Vacant Seats
This is a terrible tale but there is nothing new to it. It has become a trend that on one hand students try and die studying for the entrances but on the other hand seats remain vacant. Same was the scenario with AIPMT (All India Pre Medical Test). On conclusion of AIPMT medical counselling, a […]