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IIT-JEE examination pattern to remain unchanged for next year

IIT Joint Admission Board (JAB) at a
crucial meeting on Monday agreed to
continue with the same pattern for the IIT-
JEE examination for one more year.
The board made a detailed review of the
new pattern of the two-tier Joint Entrance
Examination, which was implemented this
year, and was of the view that the pattern
should be continued next year as well for a
closer assessment of the system, sources
said.
JAB comprises heads of the various
campuses of the premier technological
institute.
The meeting took place in the wake of
reports that there could be some changes in
eligibility criteria for admission to IITs.
According to sources, some of the IIT
directors had met HRD Minister M Pallam
Raju here last week to discuss a proposal to
ease percentile cut-offs for entry into an IIT.
IIT aspirants in Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and
Tamil Nadu, and those belonging to national
boards like CBSE, had to contend with high
cut-offs this year under the new format for
admissions. The cut-offs for AP and TN were
above 90 per cent this year.
Sources said that since the issue was being
legally challenged, JAB today decided to
maintain the status quo.
JAB is expected to meet again on Sept. 15 at
the Kharagpur IIT where the matter would
be discussed once again. Meanwhile, the IIT
council is slated to meet on Sept. 3.
The meeting today is also understood to
have decided on next year's examinations.
The IIT-JEE (Mains) could be held on April 6
and IIT-JEE (Advanced) on May 25, sources
said.

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IIT-Bombay sets sight on Mars with new rover project

MUMBAI: IIT-Bombay students are aiming
for the Red Planet which interestingly
almost coincides with the launch of India's
Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) slated for a
lift off in October-November.
They have made a rover— stated to be the
first major project of its kind at IIT-Bombay
—which will help them to design and
develop an advanced vehicle that can be
equipped with payloads and flown in the
next Indian mission to Mars. The cost of the
project which is about Rs 26,000 has been
funded by the IIT Alumni Association .
At a very informal level, ISRO is already
thinking of the second flight to the Red
Planet. The making of the rover is a project
of the IIT-based Mars Society India which
was launched in January 2012 at the Nehru
Centre in Worli. The society's president
Varun Sudarsanan, a third year aerospace
engineering student at IIT, said the rover
would soon be demonstrated at the Powai
campus .
"Our aim was to get familiar with the
electrical and mechanical aspects of a rover
operation; this will also pave the way for
us to participate at the university rover
challenge competition organized by the The
Mars Society in the US in June 2014," he
said.
The prototype rover is 45 cms in length and
breadth with a height of 35 cms and 7 kg
mass. The structure is made of aluminium;
all components were acquired off-the-shelf.
While the rover cannot currently function
autonomously since it is a prototype, it
serves as a test bed. "We control it through
a joy stick. It is powered by a lithium
battery which lasts for 15 to 20 minutes,"
Sudarsanan said. Though a prototype, it
possesses what is known as a "rocker bogey
mechanism" that allows for a check on how
much obstacle height it can negotiate.

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Relief for IIT aspirants, no major change in 2014 exam format

MUMBAI: Next year's IIT aspirants will not
be put through grueling ad hoc changes.
Even as IITs were toying with the idea of
having a subjective test in the second level
of entrance exams-JEE Advanced-it will not
be implemented for the 2014 exam. Senior
officials said there will not be many
changes in the pattern and format of that
exam.
A senior IIT official said having a subjective
test for IITs' entrance exam will require
professors to manually evaluate answer
papers. For an exam conducted in the first
week of June, it is difficult to evaluate
answer-sheets of many candidates and to
come out with results by June-end. "It will
delay the academic session across IITs. To
conduct a subjective test for JEE-Advanced,
the centre will have to conduct the JEE-
Main exam in December and hold the JEE-
Advanced in April. It will involve many
logistical changes, which is not possible,"
said the official. But a final decision on
retaining the pattern in next year's exam
will only be taken after the JEE-Advanced
2014 chairman takes over the Joint
Admission Board .
The board will meet on August 25 to discuss
the 2013 exam, their experiences with the
new format of a two-level exam and give
recommendations for the 2014 exam.
"Many officials believe there is no point in
bringing about a change in one year. Any
new system has to be given an opportunity
for two-three years to sustain. In all
probability, there will not be many changes
this year," said an official.
IITs may increase the limit of candidates
shortlisted from JEE-Main from 1.5 lakhs to
two lakhs. "This year, out of 1.5 lakh
candidates only 1.19 lakh finally wrote the
JEE-Advanced exam. If we increase the limit
to two lakhs, we may get the desired 1.5
lakh figure," said a professor.
Since the time a two-level exam was
proposed in 2012, IITs were seeking a
subjective test to improve the quality of
candidates getting into the premier
institutes. IIT-Bombay even proposed a
format which will not have multiple choice
questions, but will also not compel students
to write long answers. In the multiple-
choice test, it is difficult to determine the
students' understanding of subjects, which is
why professors opposed it. A right answer
can be arrived at by smartly eliminating
three wrong ones, said the professor.

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Exam Pattern : JEE MAIN

Question Papers: There are two question papers,
each of three hours duration. Both the question
papers consist of three separate sections on
Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics. Questions
in these papers will be of objective type, which
are to be answered on a specially designed
machine-gradable sheet (ORS- optical response
sheet) using HB pencils only. Incorrect answers
are awarded negative marks.
Subject combination for each paper and type of
questions in each paper are given in the table
below:
Subjects Types Of Questions Duration
paper 1 Physics,Chemistry,Mathematics
Objective type questions with equal weight age
to Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics 3 hours
paper 2 Mathematics – Part I
Aptitude Test – Part II & Drawing Test – Part III
Objective type questions
Objective type questions
Questions to test Drawing Aptitude 3 hours
Requirement of papers for different courses is
given in the table below:
COURSE PAPERS
B.E/B.TECH paper 1
B.ARCH/B. PLANNING paper 2
Scoring and Negative Marking:
There will be objective type questions with four
options having single correct answer. For each
incorrect response, one fourth (1/4) of the total
marks allotted to the question would be
deducted. No deduction from the total score
will, however, be made if no response is
indicated for an item in the answer sheet
JEE 2013 Notification
In pursuance of MHRD’s directions and
subsequent decision of the JEE Apex Board on
JEE (Main) and (Advanced) held on 25.08.2012,
the JEE (Main) Examination, 2013 (hitherto
known as AIEEE - Paper I) for admissions to
B.E./B.Tech courses at NITs, IIITs, DTU, Delhi
and other CFTIs will be held during April, 2013.
The JEE (Main) (Paper I of earlier AIEEE) for
B.E./B.Tech will be held in two modes, viz
offline and online (CBT). The offline examination
for JEE (Main) will be held on 7th April, 2013
and the online examinations will be held
thereafter in April, 2013.
The examination (Paper II of earlier AIEEE) for
admissions to B.Arch/B.Planning courses at
NITs, IIITs, DTU, Delhi and other CFTIs will be
held on 7th April, 2013 in offline mode only.
The merit list for admission to NITs, IIITs, DTU,
Delhi and other CFTIs will be prepared by giving
40% weightage (suitably normalised) to class XII
(or equivalent examination) or other qualifying
examination marks and 60% to the performance
in JEE (Main) Examination.
The JEE (Main)-2013 (Paper I of earlier AIEEE)
will have one objective type question paper. The
paper will consist of Physics, Chemistry and
Mathematics. The duration of the paper will be
3 (Three) Hours. The Paper II for admissions to
B.Arch/B.Planning courses at NITs, IIITs, DTU,
Delhi and other CFTIs will have one Question
Paper consisting of Mathematics, Aptitude Test
and Drawing Test as per past practice of AIEEE.
The duration of the paper will be 3 (Three)
Hours. Detailed bulletin is being prepared and
will be published shortly.
Only 1,50,000 of the top rankers in JEE (Main),
which includes students from all categories (GE,
OBC (NCL), SC and ST) will be eligible to appear
in JEE (Advanced)-2013 (hitherto known as IIT-
JEE) for admission to IITs, IIT BHU and ISM
Dhanbad. Notice in this regard has been issued
by the IIT system separately.
AIEEE conducted earlier by the CBSE would now
be known as JEE (Main).
For any clarification regarding JEE (Main) 2013 ,
kindly mail your query to
CBSE at: jeemain2013@gmail.com
*Note: The above notification is the press
release issued by CBSE.

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Conflict between democracy and its funding through corruption holds India in thrall

The UPA government in its second term is the
favourite whipping boy for the country's
current ills. Nuanced commentary examines
institutional dysfunction. Such diagnosis is as
helpful as detection of fever is for treatment
of cancer.
Of course, UPA-II is in disarray. It turns
defensive on record reduction of poverty, of
sustained increase in rural wages, of setting up
in five years one-fourth of India's installed
power generation capacity, of laying power
lines to 4.6 lakh villages, of initiating a
programme that would give millions of Indians
a way to proclaim and prove their unique
identity, of thus paving the way to financial
inclusion, of laying fibre optic cable to
2,50,000 panchayats, of ratcheting up rural
tele-density from 1.7 in 2004 to over 40 in
early 2013, of orchestrating structural
transformation of the economy that finally
sees the proportion of the workforce engaged
in agriculture come down below 50%.
UPA leaders leave uncontested the proposition
that the current mess is solely the UPA's
creation. Its scams have shorn it of authority
and paved the way for the courts to hijack
policy.
Its dither has led to paralysis and missed
opportunities on the foreign policy front. Its
turn towards "socialism" of the giveaway kind
has ballooned the fiscal deficit and widened
the current account deficit.
This picture of the UPA as a wrecking crew,
targeting its own home, has one empirical flaw:
all the scams summoned to call this the most
corrupt government in history date back to
UPA-I, whether the 2G, coal or Commonwealth
Games scams.
But, under UPA-I, things were going
swimmingly. India was growing at its fastest
pace ever, its global prestige was high, it won
a breakthrough nuclear deal in the face of stiff
opposition, Indian companies bought up
foreign ones.
India was an emerging market and emerging
power. It was the same UPA, led by the same
Sonia Gandhi and the same, won't-speak-
unless-spoken-to Manmohan Singh. Why was
this corrupt, dole-happy, socialistic leadership
fine then, but not now?
Systemic Corruption
The problem is not just with the UPA but with
the entire polity. Unless we accept this and
tackle the real problem, India will continue to
languish, whoever is in power.
The problem is that nobody pays for Indian
democracy. India's biggest private sector
company, Reliance Industries BSE 1.64 % , for
example, makes zero contribution to political
parties. The story repeats itself as you go down
the rungs of the corporate ladder. Just a
handful of companies admit to making political
contributions. The rest pay off the books, to
individual politicians, with a keen eye on the
quid pro quo.
Political parties file income-tax returns
showing puny incomes. 2008-09 registered the
highest incomes:Rs497 crore for the Congress
and Rs220 crore for the BJP. In reality, these
parties spend tens of thousands of crore
rupees: not just for elections, but also for the
regular functioning of their parties. Which
means, quite simply, that India's great
democracy is funded by the proceeds of
corruption.
This corruption takes three forms: loot of the
exchequer (the fodder scam, commissions on
procurement), sale of patronage (allocation of
mining leases) and plain extortion (no
clearance till you pay up, complex
administrative procedures, each one of which
serves as a rent-seeking opportunity).

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PM marks the 'Golden Jubilee Convocation' at IIT-Bombay

The ‘Golden Jubilee Convocation’ of IIT
Bombay was marked by the presence of
honourable Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan
Singh. He addressed the event by expressing
the need of national leaders from the
disciplines of engineering and science.
India lacks in research and development and
quality institutions of higher education. For
this reason central government has decided to
develop higher and technical education in
India.
He also asserted that the amount spent in
higher education sector must account directly
to nation building. Further, IITs strongly need
to tailor their curriculum as per the needs of
the country. Speaking at the event, HRD
Minister, Kapil Sibal referred to the issue of
quality faculty shortage at IITs. He mentioned
that the brand image of IITs is due to their
quality degree students.
Chairman of Wipro, Azim Premji was awarded
the degree of ‘Doctor of Science— Honoris
Causa’’ at the occasion. 2006 students were
awarded with degrees while 175 were granted
PhDs.

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