JEE(Advanced) Online Revision Practice Test (RPT) [18-19]

IITs Should Reserve 20% Seats for Women, Recommends Panel

The students, however, need to be in the top 20 percentile in their board examinations, besides qualifying JEE-Advanced. A panel has recommended 20% quota for female students at the premier Indian Institutes of Technology, PTI reported on Monday. The students, however, need to be in the top 20 percentile in their board examinations, besides qualifying JEE-Advanced, for being considered for the reserved seats, reported Hindustan Times.

A panel, led by professor Timothy Gonsalves, was set up by the joint admission board to look into the decreasing number of female students at the IITs. In 2016, a 2% dip was reported in the number of girls who cleared the JEE-Advanced as compared to 2015. The final decision on this recommendation will be taken up by the joint admission board and it will be decided later if the reservation would come into effect in 2017 or 2018.

Cutoff marks for qualifying in JEE (Advanced) 2015

A Candidate has to satisfy the subject-wise cut-off as well as the aggregate cut-off to be included in a rank list. A student who has secured >=177 marks out of 504 (35% aggregate) will be eligible for common Rank list in JEE Advanced 2015. While this is 159 (31.5%) in OBC & 89 (17.5%)  in Sc & ST category respectively.

Besides, a candidate also has to pass subject wise cut-off criteria. And this is >=17 marks (10%) in P,C,M each (out of 168 marks in each P,C,M)  for common merit list while >=16 ( 9%) in OBC and >=9 (5%) in SC & ST category.

EAMCET likely to go online in 2015

The 2014 edition of Engineering Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test (EAMCET) will be held on May 17 and the results will be declared on June 9, announced APSCHE Chairman Venugopal Reddy.

According to the announcement, notification for the exam will be issued on February 9 and the results will be declared on June 9. However, the date mentioned may be altered depending on the schedule of the General Election that is likely to be held sometime in April and May next year. The exam will be administered by the JNTU Hyderabad while N.V Ramana Rao has been appointed the Convener.

Also, odds are high that starting from 2015, the test will be conducted online on the lines of BITSAT and CAT. Prof. Reddy also hinted that efforts to turn EAMCET into an online entrance test were on.

JEE Main 2014: Intermediate First and Second Year Marks Will be Considered for AP Students

Now the students from Andhra Pradesh will have to do exceptionally well both in the first year and the second year intermediate exams, the reason is, IIT JEE 2014. Yes, from now both the first and second year intermediate marks will be considered for JEE Main 2014 selection process.

Andhra Pradesh: According to the reports from AP Official, the marks of both Intermediate I and II years will be considered for the normalization of marks for JEE Main 2014 Merit Ranks. In Andhra Pradesh what happen is both first and the second year examination are board exams.