75% cut-off planned for NIT admission

Candidates securing below 75 % in the Class-12 examinations may soon be ineligible to secure admission in the National Institutes of Technology, irrespective of their JEE (Mains) scores.

For Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes’ candidates, there will be some relaxation, with the cut-off for eligibility being 70 %.

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The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has recommended that the Central Seat Allocation Board (CSAB) make this change in the eligibility criteria for admission to the NITs, an official told The Hindu.

It is now up to the CSAB to take a final call on this, though the body – which is responsible for seat allocation for the NITs – is known to go by the government’s advice.

JEE Main 2016: List of important topics

The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main is conducted to short list candidates seeking admission to undergraduate engineering programmes at NITs, IIITs, other centrally funded technical institutions, institutions funded by participating state governments, and several other Institutions.
The offline exam is scheduled for April 3 and the online exam will be held on April 9 and 10.
The syllabus of class 11th & 12th contributes to about 45 per cent and 55 per cent of IIT-JEE question paper respectively. Given below is a list of a few important topics based on Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics:
Mathematics: Quadratic Equations & Expressions, Complex Numbers, Probability, Vectors, Matrices in Algebra; Circle, Parabola, Hyperbola in Coordinate Geometry; Functions, Limits, Continuity and Differentiability, Application of Derivatives, Definite Integral in Calculus.
Tip: Candidates are advised to do as much as quality problems as possible to develop a sound confidence level.

IIT Council meeting: Five developments which may lead to major changes from upcoming academic year

Indian Institute of Technology council, the highest government-nominated body of the 16 IITs hosted 49th meeting with Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani on Tuesday in Kolkata regarding some of the major changes in IITs as the need of time to enhance the productivity of the institute.
1. The decision of fee hike put on hold.
Smriti Irani has put the decision to hike the fee on hold. According to Times Of India report, she had said that the issue of fee hike was sensitive and ministry cannot rush through it. However, no timeline has been fixed to take a decision on this issue.
The IIT Council had proposed to hike tuition fee of students  by 150 per cent from Rs 90,000 to Rs 2.65 lakh to meet the recurring expenses of the institute. The proposal made by Anil Kakodar committee in 2011.
According to the proposal, IITs are highly subsidised by the government. The cost of a students graduating from IIT is around 3.5 lakh per year, the students are paying Rs. 90,000 per year as tuition fee. The hike was proposed in light of meeting the institutes' expenses on labs, equipment, staff salary, housekeeping, water and electricity.

JEE Main 2015: CSAB extends deadline to fill up NIT, IIT seats

The Central Seat Allocation Board (CSAB), in order to give a fair chance to meritorious students has extended the deadline to fill up vacant seats in NITs, IITs and other Government-Funded Technical Institutes (GFTIs) to August 17.
The seats will be granted to the candidates who do not have a seat in the joint allocation process along with those who have JEE (Main) ranks and are without seats, too. Many parents and students are unhappy with  the situation since the process will now be granting another chance to students who have already been one.
A special round of allotment was announced after more than 3,000 seats were vacant post the  fourth round of seat allocation. While most seats are vacant in unpopular courses, many in popular ones, such as computer science and engineering, mechanical, electrical and civil are also empty, which is the bone of contention for many aspirants. The major reason for this is the candidates with higher ranks who had blocked these seats but later on did not report to take admission against the same.

JEE Main 2015: CSAB to declare seat allotment results for NITs, IITs and GFTIs today

The Central Seat Allotment Board (CSAB) is conducting a special round of counselling for admissions to NITs, IIITs and GFTIs. The counselling is being conducted for admissions to technical institutes under the JEE Main 2015. This seat allotment process is being held for the seats that were left vacant after the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) concluded the joint seat allocation process.
More than 3,000 seats were vacant after JoSAA conducted its fourth round of seat allocation, this happened because the candidates with higher ranks had blocked these seats but later on did not report to take admission against the same. Thus, the board decided to fill these seats through a special round of seat allotment. The vacant seats are available in courses such as Computer Science, Communication Engineering and Electronics, amongst others.
The candidates were to download the e-challan and pay a fee of Rs 45,000 before they can register online, the candidates under the reserved categories had to pay a fee of Rs 20,000.
The candidates were allowed to deposit the fee and fill and save their choice of course and college online by August 11. The results of the seat allotment will be declared today, the selected candidates are required to report to their respective institutes from August 12 to 14.
The candidates who fail to report to the institute allotted to them will lose their seat, and the initial fee paid by them will be forfeited.

IIT, NIT admissions: Last date for seat acceptance extended

The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) has extended the date for the seat acceptance for the fourth round of seat allotment through Joint Engineering Examination (JEE). The results of the fourth round of seat allotment for admissions to IITs, NITs and other technical institutes were declared by JoSAA on July 22, and the selected candidates had been allowed to accept or reject the seats allotted to them by July 26.
However, the authorities have decided to extend this date up till July 28. This is the first time that a joint seat allocation is being conducted for admissions to all IITs and NITs. The students need to qualify JEE Main Paper I and Paper II in order to be eligible for admissions to NITs, and as for the admissions to IITs, they are required to clear both, JEE Main and JEE Advanced.
The students who get a seat are required to report to their respective centres for admission to IITs and NITs. If the candidates fail to do so, then they will be excluded from the admission process and won't be eligible to participate in the subsequent allotment rounds either.

IIT admissions 2015: Important information for preparatory courses

The seat allocation process for preparatory courses at Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) was conducted on July 22. The candidates are allowed to accept the seats and go to their respective reporting centre up till 5 pm on July 26.
There are a total of 185 seats for preparatory courses, the institutes offering these courses are the host institutes, and the institutes to which the candidates will be admitted are the parent institutes.
The details for admissions for preparatory courses are mentioned below:

• Parent institutes for IIT BHU: IIT BHU (32 seats)
• Parent institutes for IIT Bombay: III Bombay (4 seats), IIT Gandhinagar (4 seats) and IIT Jodhpur (3 seats)
• Parent institutes for IIT Guwahati: IIT Guwahati (6 seats), IIT Patna (3 seats)
• Parent institutes for IIT Hyderabad: IIT Hyderabad (5 seats), IIT Indore (3 seats), IIT Bhubaneswar (2 seats)
• Parent institutes for IIT Kharagpur: IIT Kharagpur (36 seats)
• Parent institutes for IIT Madras: IIT Madras (17 seats), IIT Palakkad (1 seat), IIT Tirupati (2 seats)
• Parent institutes for IIT Roorkee: IIT Roorkee (17 seats), IIT Delhi (4 seats), IIT Kanpur (13 seats), IIT Mandi (2 seats), IIT Ropar (2 seats)
• ISM Dhanbad: 26 seats

The students are required to report to their host institute, and not the parent institute. After the completion of one academic year, the students will their parent, i.e. admitting institute.

IIT admissions 2015: Seat allocation for preparatory courses begins

The seat allocation process for preparatory courses at Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) has begun today i.e. July 22. The candidates will be allotted seats today. The candidates will be allowed to accept the seats and go to their respective reporting centres, starting at 10 am on July 23 up till 5 pm on July 26.
The third round of seat allotment for admissions to IITs, NITs and various other technology institutes was concluded on July 21. The admission process is being conducted by the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) for JEE Main Paper I and Paper II and JEE Advanced 2015.
The candidates who were allotted a seat in any round of seat allocation and had reported at their designated centre too, but wish to change their sliding option to floating or freeze or vice-versa can report to the same centre, with a new undertaking stating their choice. They are required to carry a confirmation of document verification, round two allotment letter and their JEE Main 2015 admit card.

JEE admissions 2015: Important information on seat allotment

The second round of seat allotment for admissions to IITs, NITs and various other technology institutes will be concluded today. The admission process is being conducted by the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) for JEE Main Paper I and Paper II and JEE Advanced 2015.
The candidates who were allotted a seat in round one of seat allocation and reported at their designated centre, but wish to change their sliding option to floating or freeze or vice-versa, should report to the same centre with a new undertaking stating their choice. They are required to carry with them the confirmation of document verification, round two allotment letter and their JEE Main 2015 admit card.
The students who get a seat are required to report to their respective centres for admission to IITs and NITs, if they fail to do so then they will be excluded from the admission process and won't be eligible to participate in the subsequent allotment rounds either.
 If the students choose to 'freeze' the seat then they won't be allowed to make any changes in the following seat allocation rounds, however, if they wish to keep their options open for an upgrade they need to select the 'floating' option. If the students want an course upgrade at the same institute where they were allotted the seat, they will have to choose the sliding option.
There are a total of 87 participating institutes, 17 are Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), 31 are National Institutes of Technology (NITs), 18 are Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs), 18 are Government Funded Technical Institutions (GFTIs) and Indian School of Mines (ISM).

JEE Advanced: Computer Science, Electrical Engineering emerge the most sought-after courses at IITs

The courses Computer Science and Electrical Engineering have emerged as the most popular courses among the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) aspirants.
There are a total of 990 seats available for Computer Science across the 18 IITs, for which 2.09 lakh applications have been submitted. This means that there are 209 candidates competing for each seat.
This is the first time that a joint seat allocation is being conducted for admissions to all IITs and NITs. After Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Civil Engineering were the most popular choices among the students.
Over the years, Mechanical Engineering has been the most sought-after course. However, placements at prestigious organisations, challenging projects and high salaries by companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter etc. have drawn students to Computer Science.

IIT, NIT admissions: Third round of seat allocation to begin tomorrow

The third round of seat allocation for admissions to IITs and NITs is scheduled to begin tomorrow. The process will take place online at the official site of the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA), www.josaa.nic.in.
The third round of seat allotment is scheduled to begin at 10 am on July 18.
Up till now, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering have emerged as the most popular courses amongst the students. These are followed by Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering as the most sought-after courses. And IIT Bombay has been the first choice for most students, once again.
On the first day itself the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) online portal saw 58,000 students completing the registration process, they filled in almost 21 lakh choices for the same. Out of these, about 13 lakh students registered for admission to IITs, filling in 5.6 lakh choices.

IIT, NIT admissions 2015: Summary of second round of seat allotment

The second round of seat allocation for admissions to Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and National Institutes of Technology (NITs) was announced yesterday. The results have been published at the official websites of JEE Advanced and JoSAA portal.
The summary of the second round of seat allocation as mentioned on the official site is listed below:
1. A total of 33,989 candidates were allotted seats in round one of Joint Seat Allocation 2015 for 87 institutes comprising of 18 IITs, ISM Dhanbad, 31 NITs, 18 IIITs and 18 Other GFTIs.
2. Out of these, 26,597 candidates accepted the seat allotted to them. This resulted in overall vacancy of 7,383 seats at the end of round one of JoSAA 2015.
3.  These vacant seats were allocated in the round two by using the NIC and IIT Kanpur implementations of the DA algorithm based on the filled-in choices by the candidates prior to round one, and their category-wise all India ranks in JEE Main 2015 Paper 1, JEE  Main 2015 Paper 2 and JEE Advanced 2015.
4. The round two allotment output from the NIC and IIT Kanpur implementations matched with each other. In addition, these allocations were validated for compliance of all the business rules by the testing and validation teams from IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur and IIT Guwahati. It was found that the allocations comply with all the business rules.
5. In view of the above, NIC has published the joint seat allocations 2015 for round two on JoSAA portal on July 13, as per schedule.

JEE Main 2015 ranks rise after Class 12 marks revised

On Friday, the students who appeared for JEE Main 2015 could see their revised ranks. The students' Class 12 scores increased after the re-evaluation, which led to an increase in their ranks by a margin of few hundred and even thousands in some cases.
Though the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) did not release any official notification regarding the revised rank list, the students were able to view their new ranks.
The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) ensured students that they will be allotted seats according to their merit and revised ranks. For this, the students should have filled-in their choices of courses and colleges in a decreasing order of preferences.
However, as the students had mentioned their options in accordance with their original ranks, they are not sure if they'll be allotted a better seat now. This is because the first round of allotment had been concluded by the time the revised ranks were released, and the students are not permitted a second chance to fill-in their choices.

IIT admissions: No takers for 591 seats in the first round of allocation

What could be termed as an unexpected move, close to 600 students aspiring to opt for engineering have not taken an IIT seat despite clearing the JEE (Advanced) examination. The joint seat allocation process for admission in IITs and NITs ended on July 12.
The applicants not opting to take admission in the course lead to 591 vacant seats out of the 10,006 seats available in the IITs. These seats will be available to the applicants in the second round of allocation which begins today i.e July 13. In all, 34,000 seats in 85 engineering institutes are on offer in the first-ever IIT-NIT-GFTI joint-seat allocation process.
IIT-Kharagpur, which emerged as the top choice among students receiving as many as 2.5 lakh applications also has 91 vacant seats till now. IIT-Bombay and IIT-Delhi which have always been a favourite among students with higher ranks also have reported 24 and 18 vacant seats after the first round. Last year, 650 seats were vacant in the IITs after the first round.

IIT, NIT admissions 2015: Summary of first round of seat allotment

The first round of seat allocation for admissions to Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and National Institutes of Technology (NITs) was announced today. The results have been published at the official websites of JEE Advanced and JoSAA portal.
The summary of the first round of seat allocation as mentioned on the official site is listed below:
A total of 1,52,655 (1.52 lakh) candidates filled-in 1,29,58,458 (1.29 crore) choices for the academic programs offered by 87 institutes comprising of 18 IITs, ISM, 31 NITs, 18 IIITs (Triple-I-Ts) and 18 Other-GFTIs (as of closing time 5:00 pm on July 5).
Based on the category-wise all India ranks in JEE Main 2015 Paper 1 and Paper-2 and JEE Advanced 2015, and preferences exercised by the candidates, seats were allocated for round one using DA algorithm implemented by NIC and IIT Kanpur teams.

IIT Kanpur begins admissions for its Master of Science (MS) programmes

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur has begun the admission process for its Master of Science (MS) programmes. The institute has invited applications for the session of 2015, under Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Management, Mechanical Engineering and Photonics Science and Engineering. The interested and eligible candidates may apply as per the prescribed format.
Eligibility criteria:
MS in Civil Engineering and Chemical Engineering:  The candidates should have any of these degrees- B.Tech, BS (four-year) , M.Sc. or any other equivalent degree. They must have a minimum score of 55 percent marks or 5.5 CPI (on a 10 point scale), and a valid GATE score  (sponsored and part-time candidates are not required to have a GATE score).
MS in Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering: The candidates should have any of these degrees- B.Tech, BS (four-year) or any other equivalent degree. They must have a minimum score of 55 percent marks or 5.5 CPI (on a 10 point scale), and a valid GATE score  (sponsored and part-time candidates are not required to have a GATE score).

No common counselling round for IITs, NITs this year

MUMBAI: The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and National Institutes of Technology (NITs) will not have a common counselling round this year. In a meeting held on February 5, the ministry of human resources development decided to have the process similar to that of last year's, putting to rest the confusion over common counselling round for admission to the centrally-funded technical institutes.

The meeting was attended by representatives from IITs, NITs, CBSE, which conducts JEE (main), and the ministry.

"It has been decided that this year none of the processes will be disturbed. NITs will have their own counselling round, while IITs will conduct theirs. The common round might be implemented from next year after a feasibility study," said a senior official.

IIT test for common counselling

 The government has asked the Indian Institutes of Technology and the National Institutes of Technology to hold common counselling from this year to minimise seats going vacant at these engineering colleges.

But the 16 IITs, a notch above the 30 NITs in the pecking order, had defeated such a plan last year and are expected to oppose the latest Union human resource development ministry directive, too.

Over 600 seats had remained unoccupied in these tech schools last year, apparently because of separate counselling which allows a candidate to receive offers from an IIT and an NIT at the same time.