In one year, number of girls cracking IIT-JEE doubles to 2,800

MUMBAI: Each year boys max out seats at the Indian Institutes of Technology. But the count of girls who secured JEE ranks has doubled to 2,886 since the last edition of the exam. Yet, the tech schools will on another front continue to be an unequal world: students from the IIT-Bombay zone (home to Kota) dominate the list of selected candidates. But the southern zone has bagged the credit for having eight of the top 20 rankers, most from Andhra Pradesh. B-town boys have bagged the top ranks: Faridabad's Arpit Agrawal topped the JEE with a score of 385 (out of 401); he is followed by Chandigarh's Bijoy Singh Kochar and Bhilai's Nishanth Koushik. Priya Inala--all-India rank (AIR)...

Around 500 Patna students crack IIT-JEE

PATNA: Around 500 city students studying in different engineering coaching institutes here have cracked the IIT-JEE this year, making the state proud. The results were announced on Friday. Director of Sahil Study Centre, Mithilesh Singh, talking to TOI said, "One of our students, Shakti Kumar has got all-India rank (AIR) 80. Out of our 107 students who appeared at the examination, 17 have cleared it. Seven of these 17 students hold AIR within 1,000. "As many as 54 candidates in general category and seven in reserved category out of our 412 students have qualified," said Sharat Prakash, director of FIITJEE, Patna Centre. "The only 'guru-dakshina' for a teacher is the realizat...

Faridabad boy tops IIT entrance exam

NEW DELHI: The landline at Arpit Agarwal's Faridabad home rang at 5.45am on Friday. It was the IIT joint entrance exam chairman, congratulating him on ranking first among 4.8 lakh aspirants who took the test this year. Arpit was confident he had done well, but first rank came as a huge surprise. His winning formula is something of a surprise too - four hours of studies a day and a healthy dose of Facebook and net surfing to relax. "I knew my score and my coaching class had done some research and informed me that I may be coming first," says Arpit. "But I was not completely sure. I deactivated my Facebook profile day before yesterday; I knew it would flooded with friend requests...

IIT-JEE result 2012: Bihar's Super 30 shines again

PATNA: In another big score, 27 of the 30 students from Bihar's Super 30, a free coaching centre for underprivileged students, have cracked the highly competitive Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) this year, its director said Friday. "It is again good news that this year, 27 out of the 30 students made it to the IIT-JEE... it has underlined how with proper opportunity, students from poor families can also reach the prestigious IIT," Super 30's founder-director Anand Kumar said. The successful candidates include the wards of a truck mechanic, a farmer, a daily-wage labourer and vendors. "All of them have managed to successfully chase their ...

Patna University plans paperless exams from next session

PATNA: Patna University (PU), under its modernization plan, is likely to introduce paperless examinations for its different courses from the next academic session. The university has already introduced computerized evaluation of answer books of degree examinations this year. PU vice-chancellor Shambhu Nath Singh said the university was contemplating to have a large hi-fi examination hall with a seating capacity of 5,000 to 6,000 so that examinees could be accommodated in batches. Each seat at the examination hall would be fitted with an iPad for examinees to write the answers. The iPad would record the answers which would be later uploaded on PU's computer system for the purpos...

CBSE Class X, XII results to be declared by May 28

GUWAHATI: The results of the CBSE-conducted Class X and XII final exams would be declared before May 28 and now the officials are busy with the final scrutinising, according to officials of the CBSE regional office. K K Chaudhury, regional officer CBSE, said, "The Class X and XII final examination started on March 1. Results are usually declared in May and this time, too, they will be out on or before May 28." He also said, "The CBSE has started the comprehensive and continuous evaluation (CCE) system so the candidates' overall performance would also be monitored." Right now, the final scrutiny is going on and all anomalies would also be sorted out. "Usually we do not have...

Rupee now accepted as payment option for TOEFL

PUNE: Students now have the option to use Indian rupees as a payment method for the TOEFL iBT® test. The new payment choice is available to test takers by selecting the credit card option through the TOEFL® online registration system. The Euro, Yen and Won are also now accepted as payment through the online registration system. For many Indian students, this has the potential for cost-savings as payment is no longer limited to US dollars. Indian TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) test takers paying in rupees will no longer incur currency exchange fees charged by most debit and credit card companies. "This enhancement to the TOEFL registration process was based on fe...