IIT-JEE 2014: 5 smart strategies for serious students

IIT-JEE 2014: 5 smart strategies for serious students:

What do you need to do to score well for IIT-JEE? How many questions do you attempt every day? This article is for students who are serious about JEE and getting into the IITs. ------------------------------ APPROACH TO JEE ------------------------------ You will need to spend around three or four years practicing for JEE if you want to do well. JEE is only for students who have numerical aptitude and their skills and interests are towards engineering. Do not attempt JEE if that is what your parents, family or friends put pressure on you and your Maths is weak. #MUST READ: IIT-JEE 2014: Recommended reference books ------------------------------ STRATEGY FOR SERIOUS STUDENTS ------------------------------ Remember that JEE is more analytical than what you are used to. You need to make sure that you score well for your Class 11 as well as your Class 12 board exams. You need to be mentally prepared. 1. Solve between 60-80 questions from the day you start preparing This number includes all sections - Set realistic targets and plan the next day’s work in advance - If you can do 100 problems, don’t set the target to 150 2. Set a time limit when you attempt questions Speed is important in doing well in JEE. Make sure your score improves with time 3. Solve past year papers for at least 10 years Do this in addition to the 60-80 questions that you have done for each day. - Look for changes in the number of questions from areas and the pattern 4. Find short-cuts You will find shorter ways of solving problems using logic as you solve more problems - Develop a separate technique to handle all three subjects - Spend more time on subjects that you are not that strong in 5. Keep up to date with changes for JEE (Mains) and Advanced It’s important that you keep up to date with any changes. Your board exam is now important for JEE. Only students who are in the top 20 percentile of their boards qualify for JEE (Advanced).

Source: Indian-colleges

IIT – JEE 2014: BEST REFERENCE BOOKS FOR JEE ASPIRANTS

IIT – JEE 2014: BEST REFERENCE BOOKS FOR JEE ASPIRANTS:

Generally we observe that most ofthe times students are asking about best coaching classes available for them,but remember coaching can only support you in your preparation but they can’tprepare you for examination.

 For your convenience, we have tried to break down the topics/subjectsand give you a list of best books for IIT JEE among which you may choose yoursuitable combination. We also have student reviews for these books which mayhelp you by giving an insight into the experiences of other students like you.

Most important step forany serious JEE aspirant is ‘wise selection of books’. Number of books doesn’tmatter; don’t follow 3-4 books for each topic. There are some standards booksavailable in market, follow those only. Generally I see many students followdifferent books for JEE Advanced, JEE Main and BITSAT, please don’t follow thisway. Read only those books that will help you to build your concepts.

One more importantpoint that you should keep in mind, every book is biased in favor of theauthor’s specialized skills, so it’s not necessary to solve each bookcompletely. Choose different books to understand different topics based ontheir specialization.

 Remember thatthere will be a lot of students taking JEE along with you. The rules from thisyear state that you need to be in the top 20 percentile of your board totake JEE (Advanced).

Together with a good study plan and motivation, you will have no problemcracking JEE.

We’ve done the research for you andcompiled a list of the best books that will help you crack IIT-JEE.

Books for Advanced Chemistry

S.No	Authors /Publisher	Name of Books
1	O.P. Tandon	Physical Chemistry
2	P.Bahadur	Numerical Chemistry
3	Bruce H. Mahan	University Chemistry
4	R.C. Mukharjee	Numerical Chemistry
5	P.Bahadur (For Reading Theory)	Physical Chemistry
6	P.W.Atkins	Physical Chemistry
7	Bruce H. Mahan	University Chemistry
8	Ebbing	General Chemistry
9	O.P Agarwal	IITJEE Chemistry
10	NCERT	Chemistry XI, XII

OrganicChemistry

S.No	Authors /Publisher	Name of Books
1	O.P. Tandon	Organic Chemistry
2	Paula Bruice Yurkanis	Organic Chemistry
3	Organic Chemistry by MORRISON & BOYD	Organic Chemistry
4	Arihant Prakashan	Organic Chemistry
5	Solomons	Organic Chemistry
6	I. L. Finar	Organic Chemistry Volume 1
7	Bahal & Bahal	Organic Chemistry
8	Peter Skyes	Organic Chemistry
9	J.D March	Organic Chemistry
10	M. S. Chauhan	Concept of Organic Chemistry

InorganicChemistry

S.No	Authors /Publisher	Name of Books
1	NCERT	Chemistry XI & XII
2	Arihant Prakashan	Inorganic Chemistry
3	O.P. Tandon	Inorganic Chemistry
4	J.D.Lee	Concise Inorganic Chemistry
5	J.D. Lee	Inorganic Chemistry

Books for AdvancedPhysics

S.NO	Authors /Publisher	Name of Books
1	H.C.Verma	Concepts of Physica Vol I and II
2	I.E. Irodov	Problems in General Physics
3	Halliday, Resnick & Walker	Fundamentals of Physics
4	By Halliday, Resnick & Walker	Fundamentals of Physics
5	H C Verma	Concept of Physics Volume 1 & Volume 2
6	Krotov	Aptitude Test Problems in Physics
7	Nelkon and Parker	Advance physics
8	S.L. Loney	Dynamics of a Particle & of Rigid Bodies
9	I. E. Irodov	Problems in General Physics
10	V. Zubov & V. Shalnov	Problem in Physics
11	A. A Pinsky	Problems in physics
12	V. Zubov & V. Shalnov	Problem in physics
13	S. L Loney	Elements of Dynamics Part I & II
14	Tipler	Physics Vols I & II
15	R. P. Feynman	Feynman Lectures on Physics
16	R. P. Feynman	The Feynman Lectures on Physics vols 1 & 2
17	L. A. Sena …read more	A collection of questions and Problems in Physics

Books for AdvancedMathematics

S.NO	Authors /Publisher	Name of Books
1	R.D. Sharma	Maths XI & XII
2	S. L. Loney	Trigonometry
3	S. L. Loney	Co-ordinate Geometry
4	Hall Knight	Higher Algebra
5	I.A. Maron	Problems in Calculus of One Variable
6	Arihant	Algebra
7	Arihant	Differential Calculus
8	Arihant	Integral Calculus
9	S.L. Loni	Plane Trigonometry Part 1
10	S. L. Loni	Plane Co-ordinate Geometry
11	Hall and Knight	Higher Algebra
12	Shanti Narayan	Vector
13	W. Feller	Introduction Probability & Its Applications
14	Arihant Prakshan	Vector and 3D Geometry
15	Tata McGraw Hill (TMH)	Mathematics
16	I.A. Maron	Problems in Calculus of one variable
17	J. Edward	Calculus
18	R. S. Aggarwal	Maths XIth and XIIth
19	V. Govorov,N. Miroshin and S. Smirnova	Problems in Mathematics
20	Barnard and Child	Higher Algebra
21	Dr. Gorakh Prasad	Co-ordinate Geometry
22	K.P. Basu ….read more	Algebra made easy
21	Patapov DoroFeev	Elementary Maths
22	Krechmar	Maths
23	G. N. Berman	A problem book in mathematical Analysis

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IIT Delhi brightens up south Delhi slum

IIT Delhi brightens up south Delhi slum:

The students of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Delhi will take up the task of illuminating the slums in Munirka, south Delhi through a solar lighting project, an official statement said.

IIT-Delhi is working on the project in collaboration with My Sister Foundation of India, a non-governmental organisation (NGO).

The project titled "Liter of Light" has already provided 55W light to three households in the slums.

"The plastic coke and water bottles are filled with water and suspended from the roof of the house. With the simple concept of refraction of light from denser to rarer medium, the light is generated through the light from the sun," Revant Soni, a student working on the project told IANS.

In the slums, shanties are so close to each other that hardly any sunlight reaches there forcing dwellers to keep the lights on even in daytime.

With these bottles, it helps cut down a lot on the electricity consumption.

The project has been put into implementation following the research undertaken for three months.

"The first three installations were done by the students but now we have explained the procedure of installation to the community members and they would be completing the project," added Soni.

Around 25 students, including volunteers of IIT-Delhi, have worked for the development of the project.

Source: Indian-colleges

Placements 2013: IIT-Madras students get Rs. 92L offer from Google

Placements 2013: IIT-Madras students get Rs. 92L offer from Google:

Three students of IIT-Madras have received 92 lakh packages from Google. Students who have received the offer are from the Computer science background. The students who received the offer are Guru Prakash, Santhosh Kumar N.and Kavin Karthik. The three students were selected by Google to intern with the company for three months in Bangalore. After completion of their projects, they were interviewed.  The students stated that the work culture of Google is the best thing and are ecstatic to join the company. Another student Himanshu Jindal a computer engineering student of Delhi Technological University (DTU) has been offered a package of Rs 93 lakh and 125 stock units by Google, USA. The next highest offer of Rs 70 lakh per year was made to 11 students. Source: Indian-colleges

IIT Council: JEE (Mains) to be held once a year

IIT Council: JEE (Mains) to be held once a year:

IIT council has announced that the JEE (Mains) will only be held once a year. CBSE had the proposed that there should be two main JEE examinations.

The CBSE board had suggested that there would two main JEE examinations for IIT-JEE 2014.

The exam was to be held in February and April. The decision has been taken keeping in mind the stress caused to students.

The tentative date for the JEE(Mains) written exam in 2014 is April 6. The JEE Mains will be conducted online on dates between April 8 and April 28.

IIT-JEE advanced 2014 aspirants will now have to give the entrance exam only in paper pen format. There will be no computer based JEE-advanced 2014.

Source: Indian-Colleges

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Examhook provides unlimited online practice. Join in our community by the register to enjoy the experience of online test practice. In this page you can find each and every thing related to JEE. Yu can find from JEE exam notification to FAQ's and practice. If you have any query related to JEE no doubt you find a solution to your query in our site. we provides JEE syllabus, Faq's , JEE exam pattern and JEE exam practice. Examhook provide the services in online education. We make available online test sessions, online discussion forums, and latest news like student events, practice sessions, mock tests, guidance and career info to the students. Examhook classroom provides you the quick access to your subject knowledge and helps you to brush up your basics. We facilitate topic wise analysis and practice sessions for that particular topic. Chapter wise analysis of each subject and practice on each subject gives you 1005 success in your academics. Classroom experiences every student the real time experience of teaching. Examhook create a simple platform where colleges and students can share their events. By this event keep updated with current events, education fairs, techno fests and student mobs in your city. Examhook find the way, where you get the knowledge with fun. Every student can easily find techno fests and other cultural events. To get 2 free sample tests for iit jee, just login to examhook.com. Just click away to experience unlimited online practice.

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Engineering: Bridging the skill gap

Engineering: Bridging the skill gap:

I work in an engineering company and every year we actively induct hundreds of engineers, across levels, into the organisation. When we take fresh engineers, we invest hugely in their training to ensure the best possible foundation and bridge the gap between their capabilities and our requirements. Today, it appears that India is in a position to produce the number of engineers as demanded by the industry.

This is primarily due to a proliferation of engineering and technological institutes in the private sector which, in turn, has sufficiently augmented the initial investment of the government sector in education. 

From purely a volume perspective, India has nearly four thousand engineering colleges which have an overall annual intake of around 1.2 million students. If numbers were all that mattered, we would not be complaining. Sadly the collective competence represented in these figures is still below par leading to the qualitative imbalance with the demands of the industry.

They say our education system produces talent, which is not industry ready. We need to answer two main questions to understand this better – 1) Why are we in this current state and 2) What corrective actions should we take?

Both the industry and the academic institutions are to be blamed for this qualitative imbalance. The industry has perhaps not taken enough efforts to partner with the academia to design and deliver an industry-ready syllabus.  Furthermore, the industry may not have provided outcome-oriented internships to the students to enable them to understand the practical issues which the industry faces, and also to align their knowledge of engineering to help solve the same.

Academic institutions, on the other hand, have done no better. They seem more driven by the profit motive rather than to serve the needs of industry and society.  Even today the best students prefer to join IITs, NITs and government engineering colleges since these institutions are more focused on education and not driven by other motives.

While all educational institutions should ideally be self sustaining and not subsidised by the government, it is equally important that they also focus on designing and delivering a syllabus which meets the needs of the industry.  This is possible only when the academia is willing to visit industries and partner with them to design and develop their curriculum. 

Sadly, this shortcoming is not restricted to engineering colleges alone.  Even in the best business schools, we hardly have any case studies developed on the Indian industry and the issues we face locally. This again is a perfect example of a lack of partnership at both ends. Neither industry nor academia seems willing to go the extra mile to share and write case studies based on real life problems of the Indian industry.

Both the government and private sector play a critical role in the education arena. Their partnership with industry will further strengthen efforts to achieve common goals.  Admittedly, the road that lies ahead is long and possibly ridden with hurdles. But never before has the journey been so exciting or challenging. For now, we need not bother about the finishing line.

All we need to do is put one step firmly in front of the other as we walk together.

The author is the executive vice president & cluster HR head at Siemens Ltd., Mumbai

Source: Indian-colleges

IIT-JEE: How to crack JEE without coaching classes

IIT-JEE: How to crack JEE without coaching classes:

It is undoubtedly true that JEE; the entrance exam for IIT is difficult to get through. One has to spend months after months for preparation of this exam. Just being able to pass is not enough; you also have to secure a good All India Rank (AIR) in order to get into one of the IITs or NITs. Many students resort to the coaching classes which assure them of good rank in these entrances with the help of their coaching. Some also charge enormous fees for providing this coaching. But what about those students who cannot afford to pay heavy fees? Is it true that students can’t clear this exam without proper coaching? The answer is NO. Let us look at some tips on how you can crack the JEEs without help from coaching classes: --------------------------------- Keep positive  --------------------------------- Firstly you need to develop a positive mental attitude that it is not an impossible task. If you revise regularly and have the right materials in hand, everything will automatically fall into place. With hard work and dedication, anything can be achieved. #READ: 5 TIPS TO STUDY EFFECTIVELY --------------------------------- Pay attention --------------------------------- Since you won’t be attending coaching classes, make sure you pay attention in class and understand what is being taught. If you pay attention in class and retain what is being taught, half your work is done.   Tip: Do not hesitate to ask questions. If you have any doubts or queries, clarify them immediately. Do not wait till the exams approach. --------------------------------- Stick to your timetable --------------------------------- Prepare a study timetable for yourself and make sure you stick to it. Do not get carried away by distractions and divide your time judiciously between all the subjects. --------------------------------- Build a strong foundation --------------------------------- Start by working on topics you are weak at and then concentrate of revising your concepts and fundamentals in other topics. Once your base or foundation is strong, you will be easily able to master the rest of the topics based on core concepts. --------------------------------- You need some discipline --------------------------------- All you need is some discipline, good study materials and a timetable that you must follow religiously and then you can be sure to get admission in the coveted IIT. Source: Indian-colleges

IIT-JEE 2014: How accreditation of IITs will help students

IIT-JEE 2014: How accreditation of IITs will help students:

Now that the IITs s have decided to get accredited by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA), we list some of the reasons how it the accreditation will help students.

Students will be benefited as the academic standards of the IIT will improve.  The institutes will also be able to improve their academic standards.

Earlier IIT- Delhi and IIT- Kanpur had showed a improvement in their 2011 positions according to QS ranking. IIT- Delhi has been ranked as 212 whereas IIT- Kanpur has been ranked 278.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is ranked as the world’s best university.

Oxford University was placed at number five in the table compiled by QS World University Rankings.

IITs have also been asked to work towards reinforcing the brand so that it has better chances of making it to prestigious 'QS Ranking' of best institutions.

IITs have decided to continue with this year's format of JEE (advanced) test without any change.

Source: Indiancolleges

Top 3 things you didn't know about NASA

Top 3 things you didn't know about NASA:

NASA. You have heard that name time and again and shall continue to do so in the years to come.

NASA is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, based in the U.S. Here are the top 3 things that you probably did not know about this organiztion:

1. NASA played a role in prosthetics
Yes, you heard that right. One thought that NASA's favourite pasttimes was sending people to the moon, but it also engages in public work.

NASA has previously assisted the orthopedic appliance industry for designing superior molds for prosthetic limbs.

2. Discovering talent
NASA encourages creatives thinking in its own unique way by its Innovation Fund.

This is an annual programme which accepts 20 unique proposals that are innovative, and they can receive a maximum of $50,000 from Nasa.

3.NASA was created to counter the former USSR

It was in the year 1958 that NASA was formed. President Dwight Eisenhower was the one who created it as a response to the launch of the first artificial satellite in 1957 by the Soviet Union.

Source:IANS

IIT: QS World University Rankings not applicable to engineering institutes

IIT: QS World University Rankings not applicable to engineering institutes:

Officials from theIndian Institutes of Technologies have said the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)rankings for universities are not applicable to the IITs. SN Singh, DeputyDirector (Operations) at IIT-Delhi was reported to have said that QS rankings wereapplicable to universities, whereas IITs are engineering institutes. Singh was quoted assaying that the IITs appear in the top positions when one looks at the topengineering institutes in the world. Rankings for the top 200Asian universities as well as the top 200 universities in the world werereleased on September 10. Indian Institutes: World Ranking Institute 2012 2013 IIT Delhi 212 222 IIT Bombay  227 233 IIT Kanpur  278 295 IIT Madras  312 313 IIT Kharagpur 349 346 The IITs have slipped a few places on both lists. IIT Delhi was ranked as thehighest for Indian institutions this year at 38th position for Asia’s top 200universities. It was ranked as 36th in 2012. The decrease in rankingswas thought to be attributed to two parameters: teacher-student ratio andinternational faculty. It was earlier reportedthat the IITs were considering their own ranking and had approached QS so theycould improve their performance in the global rankings. Source: IANS

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How to choose a good engineering college?

How to choose a good engineering college?

Institutes such as IIT, NIT are well known for their teaching standards and therefore they are first choice of students who wish to pursue engineering.

But not every student is capable of qualifying the rigorous entrances that these institutes conduct to admit students. These students have to face a big problem of choosing a good engineering college.

Here are a few tips about how to choose a good engineering college.

#1 Institute

The first thing to verify before applying to a particular college is its accreditation and affiliation.

In India, National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) accreditation holds value and for engineering colleges, they need to be approved by University Grants Commision (UGC) and affiliated to Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).

#2 Faculty

Another important factor you need to verify is the faculty of the college.

You can visit the college website to check their qualification, experience and information about where they have studied.

A faculty member who is active in research will normally have a better understanding of the latest developments in the area and therefore be in a position to explain better.

The number of faculty members is also important as the faculty to student ratio is an important aspect affecting the quality of education. 

#3 Infrastructure

This is the second important factor that students need to check as the environment in the institute also has a huge impact on academic performance.

Apart from that the classrooms, laboratory, library, recreational facilities, canteen can be checked by actually visiting the institute. A fully-residential campus usually provides a better learning environment.

#4 Internships & Placements

Last but not the least factor is placement and internships. Students can check the record of which companies visit the institute for campus placements. You can talk to the students to find out details like:

- How many students get placed in good companies? 

What are the packages that are offered to them? 

- Which are places that students visit for internship from that institute? 

- What kind of training are they provided over there?

Source : IANS