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IIIT-Delhi: A good option for CSE

Why to Choose IIIT-Delhi for CSE?

This blog article is for those students who are passionate about CSE/IT branch but don’t expect to get CSE branch in any reputed IITs or IIIT Hyd. IIIT-Delhi is one of the best institute for CSE in India for its awsome faculty that boasts of 22 professors who have done their PhD overseas in the best of world renowned institutes.

If below criteria fit well with you, you have a right match in IIIT-D

1)    If you are a knowledge-seeker and would try to achieve excellence in CSE field by learning from top class faculty that is available in India (US-style education)

2)    If you plan to pursue MTech/MS in one of top international university

3)    If you dream of working in one of the top international/Indian IT company

4)    If you are looking for a institute that has good quality of infrastructure (labs, equipment) and good industry interface

5)    If you don’t wish to waste first two years of college attending metal shop, chemistry practical, engg drawing while the main thing that excites you is computer –related topics.

6)    If you value decent hostel facilities (with ACs) in a metro city and are willing to pay for it.

7)    If you are willing to work REALLY hard to achieve your goals for life

Short Answer: Choose IIIT Delhi – CSE branch for a) excellent faculty, b) research opportunities, c) planning to do MS, d) to learn REAL computer engineering, e) very good placement, f) wish to seek good hostel facilities in a metro city.

Long Answer:

In the Bollywood movie “3 Idiots”, Aamir Khan has given the most important life- lessons for all engineering aspirants:

“बच्चा , कामयाब होने के लिए नही, काबिल होने के लिए पढ़ो, कामयाबी झक मार के पीछे आएगी !

"Don't run behind success. Try to achieve excellence… success will come looking for you".
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JEE Exam- How to Crack it?

This post discusses few tips, tricks and ideas on how to breeze through AIEEE exam. The AIEEE exam is conducted by CBSE for admissions to India�s premier national level institutes like NITs, IIITs (Indian Institute of Information Technology), DCE, PEC, many deemed universities, government funded institutions and technical colleges in the country. More than 1 million candidates appear for this exam and the exam is counted as the largest exam in the world held on a single day. AIEEE 2011 Information Brochure The AIEEE consists of two papers. Paper -1 (PCM) is administered to the candidates desirous of admissions to B.E/B.Tech stream and Paper 2 (Part I-Maths, Part II- Aptitude & Part III-Drawing) is administered to candidates for B Arch/B.Planning. The exam has objective type format with multiple choice questions. There is negative marking in the exam- for every wrong answer one fourth (1/4) of the mark allotted for that question is deducted. For left out questions, there is no negative marking. Marking more than one answer for a question is considered a wrong answer and negative marking is applied. The exam is not tough at all and can be cracked with some discipline and hard work. The candidates scoring about 50% marks in the exam can expect to get a rank around 10000. In cricket terminology, if you can avoid follow-on in the exam (i.e. score say 226 out of 425), you are on the way to get a rank below 10000. Here are some tips and tricks to crack this exam and the rules can be generally applied to crack any engineering exam. Continue reading →

List of New IIMs, IITs, NITs, IIITs and AIIMS

List of New IIMs, IITs, NITs, IIITs and AIIMS

List of New IITs: There are total eight (8) new IITs that have started functioning as per IIT JEE 2011 prospectus.

IIT JEE 2011 Information Brochure/ prospectus

Only limited branches are offered in the� new IITs as on 2011 plans and they are:

IIT Bhuvaneshwar (under IIT Kharagpur): Branches offered: Civil, Electrical, Mechanical

IIT Gandinagar (under IIT Mumbai) Branches offered: Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical

IIT Hyderabad (under IIT Madras) : Branches offered: Computers, Electrical, Mechanical

IIT Indore (under IIT Bombay) : Branches offered: Computers, Electrical, Mechanical

IIT Kota (under IIT Kanpur) : Branches offered: Computers, Electrical, Mechanical

IIT Mandi (HP) (under IIT Roorkee): Branches offered: Computers, Electrical, Mechanical

IIT Patna (under IIT Guwahati): Branches offered: Computers, Electrical, Mechanical

IIT Ropar (under IIT Delhi): Branches offered: Computers, Electrical, Mechanical

Old IITs

IIT- Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madra, Roorkee.

While�IT-BHU is under process to be converted to IIT- BHU, ISM-Dhanbad had opted out of IIT umbralla to keep its unique identity

List of New IIMs

India already has seven functional IIMs in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kolkata, Lucknow, Indore, Kozhikode and Shillong. IIM Ranchi and Rohtak have also started taking admissions.

CAT 2010-11 Information, list of IIMs and Eligibility

A total of� 5 new IIMs are being set-up in India.

From 2012-13 :��IIM Tiruchirappalli, IIM Raipur,�J&KK, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan (the locations are yet to be decided).

Non-IIM List of MBA Colleges Accepting CAT scores

A_Practical_Guide_to_the_CAT

List of New NITs

Ten new NITs (National Institutes of Technology) have been set-up per following

National Institute of Technology, Arunachal Pradesh (mentor NIT Durgapur)

�National Institute of Technology, Delhi (mentor NIT Warangal)

�National Institute of Technology, Goa (NIT Surathkal)

�National Institute of Technology, Manipur (NIT Agartala)

�National Institute of Technology, Meghalaya (SVNIT Surat)

�National Institute of Technology, Mizoram (VNIT Nagpur)

�National Institute of Technology, Nagaland (NIT Silchar)

�National Institute of Technology, Puducherry (NIT Trichy)

�National Institute of Technology, Sikkim (NIT Calicut)

�National Institute of Technology, Srinagar, Garhwal (NIT Kurukshetra)

The admissions to these new NITs have started from the academic session 2010-11.

List of Old NITs

1. National Institute of Technology, Agartala

2. Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad (U.P.)

3. Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh)

4. National Institute of Technology, Calicut (Kerela)

5. National Institute of Technology, Durgapur (West Bengal)

6. National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur (Himachal Pradesh)

7. Malviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur (Rajasthan)

8. Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar (Punjab)

9. National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur (Jharkhand)

10. National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra (Haryana)

11. Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur (Maharashtra)

12. National Institute of Technology, Patna (Bihar)

13. National Institute of Technology, Raipur (Chhattisgarh)

14. National Institute of Technology, Rourkela (Orissa)

15. National Institute of Technology, Silchar (Assam)

16. National Institute of Technology, Hazartbal, Srinagar (J&K)

17. Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat (Gujarat)

18. National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Mangalore (Karnataka)

19. National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli (Tamil Nadu)

20. National Institute of Technology, Warangal (Andhra Pradesh)

AIEEE 2011 Information Brochure

Recommended Books for IIT JEE and AIEE preparation

List of New AIIMS Hospital and Research Institute

A total of six new AIIMS hospital and research institutes would be set-up on the lines of All India

Institute of Medical Sciences-New Delhi per following: �AIIMS- Bihar(Patna), AIIMS- Madhya Pradesh (Bhopal), AIIMS- Orissa (Bhubaneshwar), AIIMS -Rajasthan (Jodhpur), AIIMS- Chhattisgarh (Raipur) and AIIMS -Uttaranchal (Rishikesh).

Each institute will intake 100 UG students. Once opened, this will significantly increase the intake of students from existing 50 seats (total-including all quota) in AIIMS.

AIIMS-�Academic Programmes, Eligibility and Exam Schedule


New Central Universities (14) and Word Class Universities (16)

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DASA Scheme: FAQ’s

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on

DASA Scheme

Part- A   General Questions about DASA

Part-B  Academic Eligibility

Part-C Residential Eligibility

Part- D   SAT Subject Tests (for Undergraduate Courses)

Part- E    Fee Payment (for Undergraduate Courses)

Part- F   Application Form Filling

Part- G     Miscellaneous queries

Part-H  Children of Indian Workers in Gulf Countries (CIWG)

Part- I: Real Life Queries (Choice-Fillng by CIWG etc)

 Part- A   General Questions about DASA

1)    What is DASA Scheme?

DASA stands for Direct Admission of Students Abroad. Under this scheme, Non-Resident Indians (NRIs)/ Foreign Nationals/Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs)  are admitted to Undergraduate Courses in Engineering in National Institutes of Technology (NITs), IIITs and other premier Technical Institutions in India. DASA scheme is centrally coordinated  by one of the NIT by rotation under HRD Ministry. Just for clarity, IITs are not covered under DASA Scheme.

2)    Is there is any DASA-like scheme for medical (MBBS) admissions?

No. However, the NRIs/PIOs can get admissions to private medical colleges as about 15% seats are allocated for NRI admissions. Please refer following article for more info on medical admissions

MBBS Options in Top Private Medical Colleges in India under NRI Quota

 

3)    What are the options in Govt/Private technical institutes other than DASA  scheme administered by NIT-Surathkal for NRIs/PIOs?

It is to be noted that the following institutes have their own separate schemes for NRIs or International Students and the application for the same has to be completed on the respective Institute’s website:

IIIT-Hyd, BITS-Pilani (Pilani, Goa, Hyd camps), BIT-Mesra, Thapar Univ,  VIT Vellore, DA-IICT Ahmedabad, COE-Pune, HBTI-Kanpur, MIT-Manipal, Nirma, COE Guindy, Amrita, SRM, MS Ramaiah, RV College, Jaypee Inst of IT.

So, if you have preference for a particular city, location or a private college, there are many other options for NRIs, other than DASA scheme.

4)    Which are the most popular institutes under DASA scheme?

NIT-Trichy, NIT-Surathkal, DTU, NIT-Warangal, IIIT-Delhi, NSIT, NIT-Calicut, VNIT- Nagpur, SVNIT-Surat, MNNIT-Allahabad, IIIT-Allahabad, IIIT-Kancheepuram are the 12 most popular institutes per previous years preference by NRIs/PIOs. These are followed by NIT -Jaipur, NIT-Delhi, PEC, MANIT-Bhopal, NIT-Jamshedpur, NIT-Kuru, NIT-Rourkela, NIT-Goa, NIT-Durgapur and NIT Hamirpur.

5)    Which are the most popular institutes for CSE?

  1. IIIT-Hyd
  2. DTU=NITK=NITT=NITW=IIIT-D=NSIT (choose anyone depending on convenience)
  3. NIT Calicut=MNNIT (choose anyone depending on convenience)
  4. MNIT=NIT-Delhi=VNIT=SVNIT=PEC=IIIT-A=DAICT 
  5. NIT-Kuru, NIT-Rourkela, NIT-Durgapur and NIT Jalandhar.

 

6) Which are the most popular institutes for ECE?

  1. NITK=NITT=NITW=IIIT-Hyd=IIIT-Delhi
  2. IIIT-A= VNIT=MNNIT=NITC=DCE=NSIT=NITD
  3. MANIT=MNIT=SVNIT 

 

7) Which are the most popular institutes for Mech?

  1. DTU
  2. NITT=NITK=NITW
  3. MNNIT=NITC 4) MNIT=SVNIT=PEC 

8) Which are the most popular institutes for Other Branches?

Please choose in the order of SAT2 Cut-off score for 2016-17 provided at the website.  (higher SAT 2 cut-off being better institute). Generally,

  1. NITK=DTU=NITT=NITW
  2. NSIT=NITC=MNNIT=NITD
  3. MNIT=VNIT=SVNIT=PEC   

 

9)    Are NRIs eligible to compete to get merit seat (at normal resident fee) for Engg and Medical Colleges?

NRIs are fully eligible to give competitive exams like JEE-Main and JEE-Advance for engineering colleges and AIPMT/NEET for medical colleges and pay normal resident Indian fee if they qualify in the exam.

10)    What shall be the basis of preparing Merit List for the scheme?

Merit list shall be prepared on the basis of SAT Subject Test (SAT II) aggregate scores of Maths Level 2, Physics and Chemistry. While a total score of 2400 in PCM would guarantee a seat in the preferred college and the branch, a minimum score of 1440 (60%). In case of a tie, the Date of Birthis used as tie-breaker where older applicant is favored

www.collegeboard.com is the official agency to administer SAT II tests.

SAT II Subject Tests: Everything About It

11)    Do I need to appear for SAT I (Aptitude Test) before SAT II (Subject Tests)

No. Only SAT II (Subject Tests) are required to be given for DASA.

12) What is the fee for DASA admissions

As of 2016, the fee per year is $8000. CIWG applicants (Children of Indian Workers in Gulf) need to pay about $1400 per year (equal to resident Indians on merit).

 

Part-B  Academic Eligibility (for Undergraduate Courses)

 

  1. Question : What is the minimum requirement to qualify for application?

Answer            : Applicant must have passed the qualifying examination, i.e. Senior Secondary [10+2] or equivalent [See Appendix-I of Brochure] from any system of education as recognized by the Association of Indian Universities (www.aiuweb.org).

  1. Question : What is the minimum requirement in +2 /qualifying examination?

Answer            : A candidate should have a minimum of 60% aggregate (or 6.50 CGPA on a 10 point scale or equivalent) in the qualifying examination. The qualifying examination, shall include all subjects as mentioned in qualifying examination Mark sheet.

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