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New Sibal plan to make entry into IITs tougher

A compromise formula aimed at breaking the deadlock between teachers and HRD minister Kapil Sibal over admissions to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) could end up hurting hundreds of thousands of aspiring students. Under the new formula, only the top 20% students in respective class 12 board exams would be eligible for appearing in the IIT entrance exam, top government and IIT sources told HT. The compromise was brokered by the...

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IIT-Kanpur academic senate to discuss new proposals on Common Entrance Test

The demand of the members of faculty forum of IIT-Kanpur of convening an urgent meeting of the academic senate to discuss HRD ministry's proposal of making changes in the joint entrance examination and conducting Common Entrance Test (CET) in 2013 for students willing to take admission into IITs, NITs, and IIITs, has been accepted by chairman Sanjay Govind Dhande. The meeting would be held on June 8. A member of faculty...

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IIT aspirants struggle to adjust as new engineering test gets green signal

Students preparing for the newcommon engineering test scheduled for 2013, find themselves struggling to adjust to the new format, under which the earlier neglected board exams are now being given 40% weightage. Apart from other colleges, the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) is now the sole gateway to the prestigious IITs, for which aspirants start preparing at least two years in advance. Prince Saluja, a student of Guru Nanak High School...

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IIT alumni to move court on changes in JEE

Alumni members of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are gearing up for a legal recourse on the changes to be introduced in the joint entrance examination with effect from 2013. IIT Delhi alumni president Somnath Bharti told Business Standard, "We will have a meeting tomorrow at IIT Delhi campus to work out the modalities of which court to approach and decided on the petitioners." The councils of IITs, NITs  (National...

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Possible Selection Criteria for IIT JEE 2013

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are all set to bring a new change in the pattern for Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) which was conducted Every year across the country. The changed exam pattern would be followed from the year 2013. This is a combine exam of JEE and AIEEE .This is a single exam for entrance in all 13 IITs, 45 NITs, 5 IISc and Colleges under AIEEE.It is expected 150000 student appear for this exam. The new pattern of JEE might...

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Common admission test will hit rural students

The move of the joint councils of IITs, NITs and IIITs to hold a common admission examination would make it more difficult for students, especially those from rural areas where school infrastructure is poor, Super 30 founder Anand Kumar on Tuesday said.  “If there can be one test for more competitive AIIMS examination, which has fewer seats and more candidates, and IIMs, why can't there be so similar test for IITs,'' Kumar told a news agency.  ''The...

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Common entrance test for engineering, fee hike at IITs likely by 2013

The council of IITs today proposed a pan-India common entrance test for admission to engineering programmes possibly from 2013.After a five-hour meeting of the council, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal, said , "We have decided there shall be one exam. Subject to the clearance of the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) committee and subject to the clearance of the state ministers we will try and put that into operations from...

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Common, complicated 2-tier test for IITs, NITs and IIITs

Starting 2013, a joint entrance examination will be held for admission into the central funded engineering institutions such as IITs, NITs and IIITs. The councils of the IITs, NITs and IIITs on Monday decided to have joint entrance test for engineering colleges that come under these three councils. According to the decision taken, for the first time, the class XII examinations will count towards entrance. There will be 50 per cent weightage...

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Dumas Method For Nitrogen Estimation

Dumas Method The Dumas method in analytical chemistry is a method for the quantitative determination of nitrogen in chemical substances based on a method first described by Jean-Baptiste Dumas over a century and a half ago.[1]An automated instrumental technique has been developed which is capable of rapidly measuring the crude protein concentration of food samples and is beginning to...

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Kjeldahl Method for Nitrogen Estimation

Kjeldahl Method The Kjeldahl method was developed over 100 years ago for determining the nitrogen contents in organic and inorganic substances. Although the technique and apparatus have been modified over the years, the basic principles introduced by Johan Kjeldahl still endure today. Kjeldahl nitrogen determinations are performed on a variety of substances such as meat, feed, grain, waste water, soil, and many other samples. Various scientific...

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