Preparing for IIT-JEE/AIEEE?:Don’t miss out on other exams.

Preparing for a competitive examination is lot more than studying diligently. You have to plan your strategy, keep yourself updated on the admission procedures of different colleges, find the score of exams you must sit for and a lot more. If you are a novice you has just decided to pursue B.tech or B.E and don’t know how and where to begin you must do considerable research about the options available to you. This takes a lot of your precious time. But if you have everything at handy, right people to guide you, right places to begin your journey with, right material at one place, it becomes a lot more easy.

This post is a small attempt to bring to use the information and material i collected for my brother who appeared for IIT-JEE and AIEEE 2009. He is now pursuing Mechanical Engineering at NIT Warangal. I was about to delete these files from my unpredictable PC before they evaporate to god knows where that it occurred to me to bring them to some use. This article focuses only on the homework to be done before you decide for the exams you are going to sit for. Many students just sit for IIT-JEE and AIEEE and think it’s over, when it’s not. There are many other Engineering entrance exams you must keep a note of.

 

Once you have decided to pursue B.Tech/B.E the first thing to look for is the colleges offering it. Fine, we all know about the prestigious IIT’s and the boggling IIT JEE. Same with AIEEE. But there are many good colleges which take their own exam. BITS, VIT, Osmania among others. While there are others like Harcourt Butler which takes students through UPTU. Many students insist on not taking up examinations other than IIT JEE and AIEEE. For simple reason, that most of the good colleges take students through these exams. well, this is not entirely true, there are few good colleges which take their own exam and one mustn’t miss them. Sitting for all the exams is always a better and safer option.

Though there is no dearth of blogs, articles, forums on B.tech/ B.E admissions but the vital thing is to get to the right place without wasting a lot of time. All I have done is put everything at place for you. Hope you find it useful.

1. College ranking.

To find the best colleges offering the subject of your choice the first thing you need to look for is the college ranking. well, you will find the college ranking taken by many magazines like India Today, Forbes, Outlook among others. But the important thing is to find the authentic ones. You cannot rely on the ranking of just one magazine, no matter how authentic the magazine is. The best way is to take ten years ranking from all the important magazines and of course, take the parameters of the ranking, and tally them. Here’s a link to the analysis and survey of the last few years Top T Schools ranking.

College Ranking and student’s impressions-

Data Quest India India’s Top T Schools : Complete Survey.

Outlook India’s Top T Schools

India Today’s ranking of Top T schools.

Other useful links: Though the ranking over the years is more or less consistent, check out the links below for comments from the readers.

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college ranking

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2. How to apply.

You’ll find the College ranking all over the place, but you will have to know how to apply for the colleges offering the subject of your choice, the exams you must sit for and other important things.

Well, colleges that take students through IIT-JEE/AIEEE aren’t a great fuss. The question is many people miss out on good colleges which either take students through AIEEE but does not have central counseling (they have their own counseling) and the other colleges which have their own admission tests. This is the area which needs proper research. So, you must know the exams you are sitting for. You might miss a lot of good colleges if you do not know how to get through them.

Here’s my compilation of Institute wise ranking along with admission procedure and important dates

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List of Colleges that take students through AIEEE/CCB Central Counseling.

3. BLOGS related to IIT-JEE/AIEEE

Though the internet is flooding with blogs that will give you the information required. But you can’t be missing these. The bloggers of these blogs are very helpful and responsive. They’ll tell you everything you need to know about getting admission to a good engineering college. You even get to meet students who are, like you, preparing for the same exam, you get to talk to them and discuss issues related to your field. Book mark these blogs. They are very helpful. Visit them and you’ll know.

Ankur Mttal’s blog

Ankur Gupta’s blog

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4. A few things you must follow so that you don’t miss out on an exam-

a. Subscribe to admission updates on your e-mail or mobile. successcds.com is a good place.
b. Talk to the students who are studying in the college you are applying for.(once you are thorough with the exam and have cleared it)
c. Take a good counseling help from the blogs mentioned above to choose an institute in accordance with your AIR(All India Rank).

Good luck.

teaching as a profession.

He who can, does
He who cannot, teaches.

G.B Shaw mocked the time-honored profession of teaching. In the era of globalization when every asset is valued in terms of its marketability we are bound to think of the credibility of the thought. What is it that has made the venerable bond of seeker and imparter of knowledge fall from its pedestal? I came to think of it only when I chose academics/teaching as a profession. On the first day of my lecture a student asked me why have i chosen teaching as a profession when there are other better options available to me. I smiled with a ready consecutive question: why not teaching? Why compare it? Yet, the truth remains. I did not have an answer to the question and if there was any, I chose to leave it unresolved.

Teaching as profession remains unattractive to many. It engages either those esp. women who are looking for an easily manageable, part time jobs or to senior citizens, the great men of intellect, who wish to share their life long experience and knowledge with the younger generation.

It is often taken for granted that teachers are failed individuals. The mushrooming coaching centers that have made education a business have added fuel to the fire. When the best of Government colleges boast of IIT/IIM alumni teaching at their universities youll hear students askwhat on earth are they doing here? Students often have an i know better attitude towards their professors/teachers. No harm in that if one genuinely thinks so, it may happen at times, but the problem is they apply it everywhere, to everyone, all the time. They are prejudiced to begin with.

The challenges put forward by teaching profession are known to few. Teaching is not, as many believe, preparing students for exams but preparing them for life. It is not helping students making them aware of rights and wrongs, dos and don’ts but inculcating in them the faculty to be able to do it themselves. It is not a propaganda where beliefs, tradition, facts are made to be accepted unanimously, be it science, religion or a political opinion but a freedom of development. It is not cloistering individuals in the panorama of the canonical texts without giving purposeful insight to their usefulness but helping them make their own canons. It is not binding a student to the clutches of tangible knowledge but raising him to self-enlightenment, a blessing (atma dipav bhava) sages gave to their choicest students. It is not a rigorous practice to make individuals mimicking parrots but what Emerson called Thinking Individuals.

No doubt the standard of education is deteriorating in our country. People today are in search of more productive professions leaving the chairs in many a universities/colleges vacant. The Government is doing little to fill the vacant seats at the state and central universities. So much so that many government, private and government aided colleges are run solely on the basis of part time lecturers/guest faculties who are not even qualified enough for the post they hold.

What is Government doing to combat the problem? opening more and more universities? but where are the resources? where are the teachers? emphasis should be first paid to qualitative education. Even if we are able to have 100 percent literacy, how many of the educated lot are actually competent enough to change their own lives? What use is such education if it only teaches you to earn a living, rest all gone to the garbage.

when i talk to the villagers, the so called uneducated, illiterate lot, i discover every time how they are so much better in IQ, reasoning though they may not know how to read and write. I discover every time how our education system is failing us.

We think we know when we dont, we think we are educated when we are only literate, we think we can think when all we do is know and believe what others think, we have become slaves of reason, wheres religion, morality, things beyond reason gone? life is so much more than what we are taught. Where is the wisdom we need to live it bfully? do we have it? By calling ourselves educated we are fooling ourselves, we are no better than people who are ignorant, they know the art of living.