Engineering

Students, who have managed to come under the top 20 percentile in the IPE (Intermediate Public Examination) considering all the subjects will get admission in the IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology) across the country, this year. Therefore, to get admission in the IITs, a general category student has to score around 437 or more out of 530. Previously, only marks of math, chemistry and physics were considered as the criteria for the top 20 percentile. Presently, the authorities have decided to consider the marks of all the subjects for deciding the top 20 percentile. Thus, as per the...

University of Calcutta Kolkata has announced the exam dates for Ph.D Admission Test (PAT 2013), which will be conducted in July 2013. PAT will be held on Monday, July 08, 2013. PAT is an entrance exam conducted for taking admission to Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) program in Textile Technology for the commencing session 2013-14. Eligibility Criteria for Ph.D Entrance Exam: Candidates having degree in Master of Technology in Textile Technology or equivalent in relevant or allied stream relevant to Textile Technology or with degree in Bachelor of Technology or engineering...

Students from IIT-Madras (Indian Institute of Technology) started protests against a fee hike at the institution, which is mostly subsidized by the government. A group of nearly 500 took out a rally inside the campus on Thursday, June 6, evening protesting against the hike in the tuition fees for the undergraduate courses, from about Rs. 50,000 to about Rs. 90,000.   Earlier this year, the Union HRD (Human Resource Development) Minister declared that the IITs required financial support for which the hike in the fee was cleared by the IIT governing council. Around Rs. 2.25 lakh p.a...

From Friday, June 7, CAP (Centralized administration Process) for the first year engineering degree courses will start in Maharashtra. On Tuesday, the DTE (director of technical education) of the state, who is the only competent authority for the CAP, released a detailed notification about the admission schedule. From Saturday, July 22 the new academic year will be started while Saturday, August 10, is the date of cutoff for types of first-year engineering admissions for 2013-14. On Wednesday, June 5, the MT-CET (Maharashtra Technical - Common Entrance Test) Results, 2013 were declared...

DTE (Department of Technical Education), Karnataka has announced the counseling schedule for Diploma Courses. DTE (Directorate of Technical Education) is now ready to start the counseling rounds for admission to 1 st year Diploma courses in Government, Aided and Un-Aided polytechnic colleges in Karnataka for Engineering and Non-Engineering courses for the commencing session 2013-14. DTE Karnataka will begin the selection process through its 11 nodal centers from Monday, June 17 to Saturday, June 22, 2013. Important Dates for counseling – Seat Selection Schedule for...

On the very first day i.e. on Wednesday, June 5, Karnataka CET rank holders faced multiple problems in getting their documents verified. However, on the second day, KEA (Karnataka Examinations Authority) seemed to have brought things under control. Both parents and students gathered at the helpline center at the office of KEA at Malleswaram and were highly surprised with the efficiency of work there on the second day. On the second day, the verification of documents took place from 2,001 to 5,000 ranks. However, some parents and students came late thinking that the process might get...

Jeet Mehta, an 18 year old boy from Mumbai, acquired the topmost position in MT-CET (Maharashtra Technical Common Entrance Test), 2013 with 197/200.  The DTE (directorate of technical education) conducted the test. Around 67,933 candidates in the Mumbai division qualified for under graduate courses in engineering and pharmacy in the state and Jeet is one among them. Around 2.85 lakh candidates took the test this year; the number is about 5,000 more than the last year. Out of the 10 divisions in Maharashtra, Mumbai division performed the best, followed by Pune and Nagpur with 56,005...

Punjab Technical University (PTU) , Jalandhar will commence its counseling from July 2013 for B.Tech, M.Tech and B.Arch courses. Candidates will be selected based on the performance in JEE Main 2013 exam. Candidates must fulfill the required eligibility criteria before applying for PTU 2013 counseling/admissions. In the 1 st round of counseling around 85% of seats will be filled by Punjab students and 15% by other states. Institutes Participating in the counseling - Punjab Technical University Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar Punjabi University, Patiala ...

Day-1 of Karnataka CET document verification process witnessed a slow start coupled with system failure. Students and parents were quite disappointed with the goof ups taking place in KEA office in Malleswaram, where the document verification process was going on for general merit category. Candidates waited from 7.30 am in the morning to get their verification done, since they were told to report an hour before the verification process started. The process started much before the scheduled time but took almost 8 hours to finish. Parents got angry as well as anxious with the delay in...

Maharashtra Common Entrance Test (MT-CET) 2013 exam results are declared today  Wednesday, June 05, 2013 . Candidates, who have appeared for MT-CET 2013 exam, can check their results on the official website of Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER). Check here for more updates on MT-CET 2013 MT-CET Exam 2013: MT-CET was held on Thursday, May 16, 2013 . MT-CET is an entrance examination conducted for those candidates who want to take admission into engineering and pharmacy programs offered at undergraduate level in government/government aided...