India Today - 45 minutes ago
The controversial common entrance exam proposed by Union HRD Minister Kapil Si bal may not see the light of day after all -- at least not in its initially envisioned format. Headlines Today has learnt that the government has agreed to water down its ...
Business Standard - 1 hour ago
LAST WEEK WE ASKED: Do you think IITs are justified in their reaction to MHRD's formal proposal to reform IIT-JEE examination? The mixed reactions of the IITs to MHRD's proposal only reflects their doubt in the move's effectuality to enable them ...
Zee News - 2 hours ago
New Delhi: Giving in to the IIT faculty and alumni, the government is understood to be considering accepting some of their demands like not taking plus-two board results into account for preparing the merit list under a new common entrance system for ...
Firstpost - 4 hours ago
by FP Staff Jun 20, 2012 Despite the criticism for the new IIT entrance exam format from next year, Union Human Resources Development minister Kapil Sibal today strongly defended it and said there was no going back on his 'one exam' policy for ...
IBNLive.com - 4 hours ago
New Delhi: Union Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal, in an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose, said there is no going back on the new IIT entrance test format. Sibal said the autonomy of the IITs is not being ...
Times of India - 8 hours ago
NEW DELHI: Unfazed by the resistance from the IIT faculty as well as the alumni, government would soon write to the joint admission board of the IITs to prepare the modalities for conducting the proposed common entrance test for admission to ...
Economic Times - 11 hours ago
NEW DELHI: Protests by the IIT faculty, and at least one IIT Senate, against the new common entrance examination system notwithstanding, the government is going ahead with preparations to roll out the new look Joint Entrance Examination by 2013.
Economic Times - 16 hours ago
NEW DELHI: Eight hundred IIT aspirants from the other backward classes (OBC), who made it past the Joint Entrance Exams, have stopped short of pressing their claim for the coveted admissions this year. This is a direct fallout of the JEE Committee ...
NDTV - 17 hours ago
I am a 16-year-old-student, about to begin class XII, and I'm preparing for all the engineering entrance exams for 2013. I have been sure of my career choice for nearly four years now, and have always enjoyed learning and building my knowledge.
Indian Express - 17 hours ago
Unfazed by the opposition mounting against the new JEE format in the IIT community, the Human Resource Development Ministry has begun moving to take the proposed common entrance exam forward. Kapil Sibal's ministry will write to the IIT Joint Admission ...
Hindustan Times - 18 hours ago
In what can be described as a 'softening' of stance, the government has asked the IIT-Delhi director to convene a meeting of the Joint Admission Board (JAB) to deliberate on the modalities and format of the JEE (advanced) exam. Besides this, there were ...
Times of India - 18 hours ago
These are testing times for students, particularly those aspiring for admission into the IITs. The HRD ministry's proposal to make students sit for a common entrance test for all IITs, NITs and IIITs has given rise to a national controversy.
Zee News - Jun 18, 2012
New Delhi: In view of stiff opposition to the proposed Common Entrance Test for admission in IITs and other centrally-funded technical institutes, the government is mulling a new formula to end the controversy. Reports on Tuesday claimed that among the ...
NDTV - Jun 18, 2012
New Delhi: After an acrimonious fight between the Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry and the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) over the new 'one nation, one test' entrance format for all centrally-funded engineering colleges, ...
Times of India - Jun 18, 2012
NEW DELHI: More opposition to the common entrance test (CET) for admissions to engineering colleges, including the Indian Institutes of Technologies (IITs) and National Institute of Technologies (NITs), is coming forth. Even as the union government ...
Zee News - Jun 17, 2012
Summer vacations were always fun for 16 year old Jasin, who is preparing for various engineering entrance exams. Not this time! This class 12th student from Kerala now wakes up at 5 am every morning to study his class 12th course books, ...
