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New IIT JEE pattern and its impactMonday, December 27th, 2010 by adminThe JEE Advisory Board made changes in the IIT JEE pattern in 2006. These changes were made due to the following problems with the old pattern: The 2nd stage examination (Mains) was of much higher difficulty level than Class XI/XII This required students to prepare for school and ‘IIT JEE coaching’, separately. Students could not cope up with the dual pressure of school’ and ‘IIT JEE preparation’ Some students neglected their Class XI/XII studies in trying to keep up their preparation for IITJEE. This caused irreparable damage to their careers. Most students started dropping an year or more after Class XII to prepare for IIT JEE. Over 70% in 2005, who cracked IITJEE had dropped an year or more. This led to emergence of destinations like Kota. Here students did rote learning, continuously for log hours to crack IIT JEE. IITs were not happy with the profile of the students who were joining them since the kota phenomenon started. The students from Kota were not very keen on learning. They were burnt out and exhausted under the Kota system. They were not faring very well in IITs. Kota system also undermines the importance and utility of the school system. In Kota, students who join in Class XI/XII don’t go to schools. They get proxy attendance. In IITJEE 2006, JAB made the changes in the pattern to deal with these problems. These changes have made a tremendous impact on the admission patterns. Now, almost 70% of the students who get through, are 1st timers. In the new pattern, it is advisable to prepare along with Class XI & XII. Students cant afford to neglect school studies or drop an year. Only genuinely good students, who have a flair for PCM get through IIT JEE
These efforts were extremely successful.
Tips for IIT JEE Success #3 – Develop a System- The Ultimate WeaponMonday, December 27th, 2010 by adminDevelop a System- The Ultimate Weapon to Win the IIT JEE Battle Compile the study material Some questions that come to our mind are:
There is little time to complete one set of textbooks. It is next to impossible to complete two different sets. Keep just one set of text books for studying the theory (concepts, definitions) and basic problems. The new pattern of IITJEE has brought it much closer to the school syllabus. So, ideally, it should be the textbook recommended as part of your school syllabus. There is very little difference in the theory presented from one textbook to another. After one set of textbooks is completed, students can look at other books as reference. Similarly, keep just one set of IITJEE course material. Note: Collecting too much material is a recipe for disaster After you have chosen the material that is best for you, how do you put it to the best use? There are as many different ways to study, as there are different people. The trick is to find the study style that works best for you. Read This is one of the most useful activity. It takes minimum effort and brings maximum result. Students, who are used to studying from coaching notes, tend to avoid reading. This is the single biggest reason for their failure. No coaching notes can replace reading of textbooks. The information you gain from reading is important. If you just “do it” without learning something, it is a waste of time. Train your mind to learn! Read the following: 1. Title Understand You must understand thoroughly the major ideas and concepts presented. Without such a conceptual framework, you will find yourself faced with the impossible task of trying to cram hundreds of isolated facts into your memory. * Locate and note down the new terms, which are introduced in the chapter. Note: It is a good idea to keep a glossary of your own in the front page of the book. Record the terms and their definition or the page number where the definition is located. This is an excellent aid to refer to when you are reviewing for an examination, as it provides a convenient outline of the course. Ask question * Write down the key takeaways (learning) from every topic (make notes) Questions with negative markingMonday, October 4th, 2010 by Prtyagi— Questions with negative marking When there are questions with ‘negative marking’, the first thought that comes to mind is, SHOULD I TAKE A CHANCE? If you are not 100 per cent sure of the answer, then you will not consider answering it at all, lest you get negative marks. But that is exactly what you need to avoid. Though random guessing is thoroughly discouraged, it may still be prudent to eliminate options and get to probably two likely answers so that your probability of getting it correct goes up. This is possible in all questions, which have Multiple Choices. However, if there are no such choices given (as it was the case in two sections last year), then it is better to leave such questions alone. Questions with no negative markingMonday, October 4th, 2010 by Prtyagi— Questions with no negative marking There are two types of questions, which have no negative marking. 1. Integer type: Students have to “calculate” down to the finest value and then indicate that value in the OMR (Optical Mark Recognition) sheet. This is where the test really lives up to its definition — “objective”. But not multiple choice. For example, if the answer to a particular problem is 112, then the students have to arrive at the correct answer. In the answer grid that contains four columns of numbers running from 0 to 9, they have to darken 0, 1, 1 and 2. The OMR reader would read the answer as 112 and only to that answer, marks would be awarded. 2. Match the following: The students are asked to match the items in the left column with those in the right column. A seemingly simple proposition, if you were to exercise ‘fix a couple’ and ‘eliminate one possibility’ kind of techniques. However, it would not work here. Let the left column have (A, B, C, D) and four options in the right column be (w, x, y, z). The final marking would look something like this: A- x,y; B- x; C- w,z; D- w,y,z. You would have to mark exactly like this in the specially designed grid in the OMR sheet to get any credit for this question. If you were to mark all others correct and then D-w,z, no marks would be awarded for this question. If you were able to get out of the compartment mode of thinking and look for applicability of concepts across subject areas, you would do well. For example, when you look at an area in Mechanics, you should also realize that the same concept may be present in five other topics, viz., Motion in one dimension, Motion in two dimensions, Work Energy Power, Rotational Dynamics and Laws of Motion. Which means you should be able to use one concept in different areas to get these type of ‘Match the following’ questions. Well, that is what the JEE intends to seek in young aspirants – can you ‘size up the situation’? No change in IIT-JEE pattern for 2011Monday, August 23rd, 2010 by PrtyagiNext year’s Joint Entrance Examination for admission to the 15 IITs will be held on April 10 and the pattern of the test will remain unchanged, the Joint Admission Board decided today. The board, which oversees the entrance test, met at IIT Kanpur and decided to stick to the current pattern for 2011 as a panel of IIT directors, set up to revamp the system, had not yet submitted its report. IIT Kanpur will be in charge of JEE 2011. “The existing pattern of the entrance will be followed next year also. Special care will be taken in the preparation of question papers to ensure that there is no scope for any confusion,” an IIT director told. However, students will have to answer questions in the same subjects — mathematics, chemistry and physics — as in JEE 2010 and in the same format. The IIT-JEE was in the news this year for misleading instructions. Human resource development minister Kapil Sibal had to intervene and the Joint Admission Board had to devise a special formula to evaluate the papers. “Normally, our questions are foolproof. This year there were certain problems because of printing errors. We have learnt from our mistakes and such mistakes will not be repeated,” the director added. The government wants to change the JEE format and replace it with an aptitude test. A committee headed by IIT Kharagpur director Damodar Acharya is preparing a report on the proposed evaluation system, which plans to give more importance to Class XII board marks. “The new format has not yet been finalised by the committee. After the committee submits its report, the government will take a decision on it. Maybe, the new system will be effective from 2012,” the director said. This year, about four lakh students had taken the test for a shot at the 10,000 seats the IITs offer. No complaint about online counselling for admission to IITsTuesday, July 6th, 2010 by PrtyagiThe IIT JEE Board today rejected suggestions that online counseling for admission to IITs is non-secure and prone to misuse, saying that not a single complaint has been received in this regard so far. “Overall, 11555 out of 12676 students exercised their choices online and not a single complaint of misuse has been received,” said Director of IIT Madras Prof M S Ananth. The online counselling is being held for the first time this year for IITs, BHU and Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad and concerns have been expressed by some sections of the IIT faculty over its possible misuse. Every step of the counselling process has been made completely secure, he said adding, even the acceptance letter containing allotment of seats can be generated only once. He said wrong entries or falsely generated acceptance letters can be rectified by verification by one of the IIT-JEE offices. During the counselling process, the successful student enters name, registration number, date of birth, all India rank and a random number which is printed only on his or her admit card. After this five-parameter authentication, a login ID is created for each student and the student enters the password, Ananth said. This can be used for multiple logins. Most of the general category candidates who qualified for counselling through JEE used this secure authenticated online facility to submit his or her course and institute choices, Ananth said. This step has been successfully completed and not a single complaint has been received of misuse, he said. The Joint Implementation Committee then allocates the course and institute for each candidate based on the choices filled. The results of this exercise were published through JEE websites on June 28, 2010, he said. New IIT admission rules: Students upset in KotaTuesday, June 29th, 2010 by PrtyagiThe new plan for admission to the IITs has ignited a furore in Kota. Most students say if 70 per cent weightage for entry into the IITs is given to marks in Board exams. The IIT-JEE system will be drastically changed. And having spent years preparing for the current format, they are worried that the proposed changes could ruin their IIT dream. “JEE is an analytical exam while CBSE and Board exams basically revolve around mugging up. So, they should give more weightage to IIT exam than Board marks,” said Mohan Kumar, Student and IIT aspirant, Kota. “This is absolutely wrong. How can you select IIT students on the basis of Board results? The pattern and level of Board exams is entirely different,” asked another IIT aspirant Ramesh Chandra. Most students and teachers also question the need for any major change when IIT rules have already been changed thrice in the past decade. Teachers say, besides causing confusion for students it’s unfair to give excessive weightage to Board results as different Boards in the country have vastly differing levels. “It will create lots of practical problems. There are numerous state Boards. Their level, syllabi and papers are totally different, so how can there be a common evaluation through their exams. If somehow they find a system to have some commonality among Boards, the whole country knows how copies are checked in many Boards. I think this new system will breed partiality,” said Pramod Maheshwari, Director, Career Point Institute, Kota. Clearly, students and teachers in Kota, which produces nearly 40 per cent of successful IIT candidates annually, are in no mood to accept the new format. And the HRD Ministry will need to consider their objections before making any fundamental change. Panel suggests 70% weight for Class 12 marks in IIT entryFriday, June 25th, 2010 by PrtyagiIn what may mark a major shift away from the current scheme of admission to the country’s bluechip engineering institutions, an HRD ministry panel has recommended 70% weightage to class XII marks and 30% for performance in an aptitude test to be conducted more than once a year, for the IIT-Joint Entrance Examination. A cut-off list on the basis of the class XII result and the aptitude test will be prepared in the month of June every year and the top 40,000 will have to take the additional test for IITs. Right now, more than four lakh students appear for IIT-JEE in a single test. The panel headed by Damodar Acharya, director of IIT Kharagpur, that gave its report to HRD minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday, has also suggested that the aptitude test be an ongoing affair which students can take more than once. However, the best score in the aptitude test — which will have questions on reasoning, numerical ability and communication skills — should be taken into account. It is only the add-on test for the top students that will have questions on physics, mathematics and chemistry. However, the panel has put a restriction on the number of times the add-on test can be taken. Also, unlike the present system, right at the beginning, students will have to give their choice of IIT or other institutes — like Indian Institute of Science Education & Research — whose admission test is conducted through JEE. Students will also have to spell out their choice of branch of engineering or stream of pure science. HRD sources said the ministry’s first task would be to bring all state boards as well as CBSE on par with each other by developing a comprehensive weighted performance index so that there is no gross inequality among them and students do not suffer. Already, a core science and mathematics syllabus has been mooted by the HRD ministry and approved by the Council of Board of Secondary Education. “The move will ensure that students from small towns and even those who cannot afford expensive coaching can aim to be in IITs,” a source said. | ||||||||||||||||||
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