After winning a battle in convincing the IIT senate in approving the common entrance examination, HRD minister Kapil Sibal is ready to meet all state representatives. The meeting is scheduled on 5th June to deicide on the future of the new proposed common entrance examination. As per the plan, this test will be used for admissions to under-graduate science and engineering programmes across the country. On 28th May, it was decided that there will be a common entrance examination for IITs, NITs, and IIITs along with all other state engineering …Read More
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Goodbye EAMCET: Andhra Pradesh BE Admission through ISEET
The verdict is out. After meeting with all the states on 22nd Feb, HRD ministry announced that it will go ahead with a common entrance test called ISEET. Although few states raised objection on a single common test, most of the states are fine with the proposal. That means EAMCET will be scrapped and ISEET will be used for admission to engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh. Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test (EAMCET) is conducted by Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad on behalf of APSCHE. This examination is the …Read More
Most States Agreed to ISEET as Common Entrance Test
Most States have “in principle” endorsed the proposal for a common national examination for engineering with effect from 2013, with weightage to State Board results. However, Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha, Puducherry and West Bengal sought more time to study the proposal in detail. At a State Education Ministers Conference held here on Wednesday, the States said they may also decide on adopting the same pattern for admission to State-level engineering institutions with appropriate weightages.”It was decided that the details for the common examination process would be finalised in the …Read More
Weightage Formula for ISEET Yet to be Decided
ISEET will change the way of admission to engineering across the country. Class 12th board marks will have a significant amount of weightage in admission process. From 2013, ISEET will replace Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) for all the IITs and AIEEE for all IIITs and many deemed universities. However, not all states have agreed to a common entrance examination for their state sponsored engineering colleges. Also, all the states have different difficulty/assessment criteria for class 12th which will require a different weightage for different scores. In the meetin on 22nd Feb …Read More
ISEET to Replace all State Entrance Exams ?
Last week, HRD announced the decision to conduct one single entrance examination for all engineering programmes in India. But now comes the difficult part, to on-board all the states which are running their own version of state entrance examinations from a long time. The most prominent are Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu and West Bengal. As per few news websites, these states seems to be averse of a common examination and may oppose it. However, Kapil Sibal is very confident that all states will come on-board and said “The rest will be …Read More