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AIPMT 2014: Important dates, exam centres for students
Students sitting for the All-India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT) 2014 should be aware of important dates.
The dates for AIPMT have been announced by the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi.
Some of these dates are tentative so students should check
on the AIPMT official site for the latest information or you can also go
to the AIPMT section for the latest updates on indiancolleges.com.The
structure of AIMPT is similar to NEET although there are some major.
IIT-JEE 2014: Pre-assessment test module uploaded by a college for free!
The
Agni College of Technology (ACT) in Tamil Nadu has uploaded the module
online. The college has created a bank of 30,000 questions. Candidates
will be given questions in mathematics, physics and chemistry.
City students excel at IIT-Delhi fest
The
PCTE Group of Institutes won three prizes at Rendevous 2013, a cultural
and literary extravaganza at IIT Delhi. While Manjot Singh Pandher a
second year MBA student won the third prize in the debate competition,
the PCTE team won the second prize in the stage play event. Lovely
Khatri, a student of BHMCT.
CBSE open book exam plan evokes mixed reactions
The
decision of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to
introduce open text-based assessment (OTBA) for developing “higher order
thinking skills’ from March 2014 has evoked mixed reactions from
principals and teachers. While many hailed it as a progressive concept
with the potential to revolutionise the country’s education.
'CBSE Launches a ‘Foreign Cell’ to Assist its 60,000 Students across 25 Countries
To
provide right academic and administrative support to its schools
outside India, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has
launched a Foreign Schools Cell (FSC) that is based in Delhi. The FSC
will help the board to cater to the requirements of its increasing
number of students at foreign schools. The FSC will look after the CBSE
affiliated schools in 25 countries worldwide.
NEET, AIPMT more similar than different
With
NEET being scrapped, we are back to AIPMT. The two tests have a lot in
common and very few differences, observes Aakash Chaudhry. The AIPMT
syllabus will be the same as NEET Like NEET, AIPMT too will have a
single paper as against the earlier two papers. There will be 180
objective type questions from physics, chemistry, botany and zoology (45
questions from each subject).
AIIMS PG Admit Card 2013-2014 to be available from Oct 25
All India Institute of Medical Science
(AIIMS) which is set to conduct the examination for PG applicants on
10th November 2013-2014 will likely release the admit card from Friday,
25 October 2013. Candidates appearing for this examination.
CBSE starts verifying internal marks given by schools
NAGPUR:
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is embarking on one of
its most important annual exercises - collection of evidence of
assessments (EA). To ensure fairness in internal markings, the CBSE
rechecks the materials assessed by schools through a process called EA.
This is done specifically regarding Std IX and X as they come under the
Continuous.
Mathix aims to solve JEE puzzle
With an aim to train students for competing in the Joint
Entrance Examination (JEE) Mains as well as Advanced, a group of young
NIT pass outs have initiated a guidance programme for the students of
the Valley. The young engineers have started an institution named
‘Mathix’ claiming it to be an initiative with an idea of helping the
students in achieving.
IIT-Madras starts centre to study, protect monuments
CHENNAI:
Each year India loses a historical monument or parts of it to natural
hazards or time. Archaeologists and heritage lovers have expressed
concern over the lack of a system or expert committee to study and
monitor the safety and restoration of heritage structures. IIT-Madras
has now formed a consortium..
MUMBAI|KOLKATA:
Last month, when IIT Kanpur opened its overseas office in New York -
the first of its kind across any IIT- fund-raising was one of the
drivers behind the move. The other was faculty hiring. Nearly 60% of the
institute's faculty comes from North America, and the NYC office will
be involved in reaching out to such potential.
In
a recent report commissioned by the new IITs, the newly setup
institutes in Hyderabad and Ropar, in Punjab, have been ranked the best
in quality of research among all other IITs across the country.
According to data upto September 2013, IIT Mandi and IIT Jodhpur are
among the worst performers with h-indices (which quantifies an
individual’s or institution’s scientific research impact on the basis of
the number of publications, and the number of citations.
GUWAHATI:
In a bid to bring industry and academicians together to innovate
products that would help make life easier, the mechanical engineering
department of IIT-Guwahati (IIT-G) will organize a two-day national
conference on its campus on Saturday and Sunday. According to organizers
of the conference, titled 'Manufacturing: Vision for Future', the event
has been organized to understand the needs of the hour from researchers
working with some of the leading manufacturing units, and to assess the
possibilities of innovation from academicians.
The dates for AIPMT have been announced by the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi.
Some of these dates are tentative so students should check on the AIPMT official site for the latest information or you can also go to the AIPMT section for the latest updates on indiancolleges.com.The structure of AIMPT is similar to NEET although there are some major.
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