AIEEE (All-India engineering entrance exam) 2012 saw a total of close to 11 lakhs students appearing for the offline test on 29th April, 2012. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) informed that approximately 10 lakh students appeared for the offline paper based test held across 1,735 centers all over India. Online version of the test will witness 1,64,000 students across 221 examination centers in 22 cities across India. This year CBSE had a greater emphasis on small cities for conducting offline tests which was reflected in the list of …Read More
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Goodbye EAMCET: Andhra Pradesh BE Admission through ISEET
February 23, 2012
ISEET 2013
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
ISEET Scores Valid for Two Years
February 23, 2012
ISEET 2013
Starting in 2013, all the centrally funded engineering institutes will use ISEET and Class XII board marks for admission to BE, BTech, and other engineering programmes. ISEET will be conducted in two parts – Main and Advance- on a single day. Hence going forward, the government has formally merged the joint entrance examination (JEE) conducted by the IITs and the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) held by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). In the meeting with state representatives on 22nd Feb, HRD minister Kapil Sibal made his …Read More
Most States Agreed to ISEET as Common Entrance Test
February 23, 2012
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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
February 22, 2012
ISEET 2013
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 ?
February 22, 2012
ISEET 2013
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