JEE-Advanced 2014 Exam Date Announced-25-May 2014 (Sunday)

Date of JEE (Advanced) - 2014

Sunday, May 25 2014

* Paper-1 : 09:00 to 12:00 hrs (IST)
* Paper-2 : 14:00 to 17:00 hrs (IST)

Content of the Short Advertisement:

IIT-JEE 2014: Best Reference Books for Physics, Chemistry and Maths

There is no such thing as the one book that can help you pass your exam.

Here are some tips to help you choose a book:

- Choose a book that is easy for you to understand
- Read more than one book
- Different books may be good for different sections in a subject eg one book for inorganic chemistry and another for organic

Here is a list of recommended books for students taking JEE:

Chemistry:

1. NCERT Chemistry text books of class XI and class XII (usually sufficient)
2. Organic Chemistry by Morrison and Boyd
3. Arihant Organic Chemistry Objective (Optional)
4. Organic, Physical and Inorganic Chemistry books by OP Tandon
5. For numerical problems-P Bahadur
6. Inorganic Chemistry by JD Lee
7. Physical Chemistry by RC Mukherjee
8. Physical Chemistry by P Bahadur (good for any Engineering entrance exam)

Mathematics:

1. NCERT class XI and class XII books (all students should start with these early)
2. For best concepts you can purchase ‘IIT Mathematics’ by ML Khanna
3. New Pattern IITJEE Mathematics of Arihant Publications by Dr SK Goyal
4. Books by SL Loney (Good for coordinate Geometry and Trigonometry)
5. Tata McGraw Hill (TMH) books
6. GN Bernnam – only use it for calculus as other sections are too advanced for JEE

Physics:

1. NCERT Physics for Class XI and XII (good introduction)
2. Concepts of Physics, Vol.-I & II, by HC Verma
3. Problems in Physics by IE Irodov
4. Physics by D.C. Pandey, Arihant Publications
5. Fundamentals of Physics, by Halliday, Resnik and Walker (Optional)

Remember that there will be a lot of students taking JEE along with you. The rules from this year state that you need to be in the top 20 percentile of your board to take JEE (Advanced).

Together with a good study plan and motivation, you will have no problem cracking JEE.

Source: IndianColleges.com

JEE-Main and JEE-Advanced 2014 Exam Dates Announced

The Joint Admission Board (JAB) of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) that met on 15 September, have decided to continue with the offline format (paper and pencil) of JEE Advanced for the next year, 2014.

JAB has also decided that the JEE-Advanced 2014 will be held on 25 May, 2014. The date will soon be announced officially.

JEE Main 2014 is tentatively scheduled to take place on 6 April, 2014. The official dates for JEE Main will soon be confirmed by CBSE.

Meanwhile, JAB has decided against an online JEE Advanced this year. They will also soon set up a committee to study the online process and implement it in future.

"There will no changes for the 2014 exams. We will follow a systematic approach before implementing the computer-based test. The board will set up a committee to study the online process and only then will implement it in future," told NK Panigrahi, JEE-Advanced 2014 chairman to a leading national daily.

Source:IndiaEduNews.net

CBSE Proposes to Conduct Two JEE-Mains Next Year

It was stressful enough for students when the single Joint Entrance Examination for IIT was split into two-the Mains and the Advanced - this year. Now, the CBSE board, which conducts the JEEMains, is proposing two Main tests for 2014, one in February and one in April. The final decision on this will be taken at a meeting of the Joint Entrance Examination Apex body on September 17.

A senior CBSE official confirmed that such a proposal is afoot. "The logic is that candidates can take both the exams and the best score of the two will be considered for the JEE-Advanced. Students get a second chance," he said.

An additional test will add to the blitzkrieg of exams that students have to answer, and pile up preparation pressure on them. The board exams for the state board, CBSE as well as ICSE are conducted in February. Students of ICSE and state board will have to study separate portions of the CBSE syllabus to prepare for the first of the JEE Mains, also to be held in February.

The CBSE official said it would be ensured that the JEE-Main exam dates in February do not clash with the February board exams. But that does not ease studying pressure for students. It merely allows them to take both the exams.

The other possible fallout of a JEEMain in February is that preoccupation with it could affect a students' board exam performance adversely. And this in turn will have an impact their chances of qualifying for IIT which has introduced a policy this year that successful candidates, even if they have cleared the JEE-Advanced, must be among the top-20 percentile scorers in the class XII exams of their respective boards.

While the JEE-Main exam qualifies students for engineering institutes like NITs and IIITs, IIT aspirants have to nail both the Main and the Advanced, and also do well in their class XII board exams.

Dr. Ashok Wadia, principal of Jai Hind College said the students will be in despair about what to concentrate on, the boards or JEE Mains.

"Sure, students will get a second chance with two exams, but I would prefer one exam, as it is very stressful to appear for multiple exams," said Krishnakant Saboo, a third year student of electrical engineering at IIT Bombay.

While the JEE Mains, an eligibility test for the JEE Advanced, is conducted by the CBSE, JEE Advanced is jointly conducted by the seven zonal IITs.

Source: MumbaiMirror

IIT Entry Turns into a Lopsided Board-Game: 80% Candidates from 3 Boards

MUMBAI: For long, when it came to getting into an Indian Institute of Technology, signing up with the right coaching centre was what mattered more than which school board you attended. But the new entrance exam system, which gives weightage to class XII scores of candidates, has changed the rules of the game in one fell swoop.

The list of candidates selected last week for the IITs showed that a vast majority of the successful candidates - more than 8,000 out of 9,700 - or over 80% came from just three school boards: the CBSE, Andhra Pradesh and Punjab state boards.

"More than 5,500 students come from the CBSE board. Then, there are close to 1,800 of them from Andhra Pradesh and another 750 from Punjab," said JEE (advanced) chairman H C Gupta, about this year's list. There are 30 other boards in India from where a small count of students has qualified.

"There are anywhere between five and 10 to a little more than a 100 students from some other boards," Gupta said.

In other words, if you want to get into one of these premier engineering institutes, it appears that passing class XII from one of these boards gives you an edge over competition.

Because it never mattered earlier, the IITs do not have records on the school boards that students had attended, giving little data to make any historical comparisons. Nevertheless, it is well-known that the CBSE board sends the largest chunk of students to the IITs every year.

"We always knew that many students come from the CBSE board. But we had no clue which other state boards sent more students to the IITs," said IIT Roorkee director Pradipto Banerjee.

Statistics from the IITs show that in JEE 2010, of the qualified candidates, 58% were from CBSE, 36% from state boards and 6% from ICSE. While 3.5% of the CBSE candidates qualified, it was 2.3% for state boards and 2.7% for ICSE.

In 2011, of the 13,196 qualified candidates, 543 were from ICSE (4.1%), 7,396 from CBSE (56%), and 5,195 from state boards (39.4%). "It is noted that the participation and the performance of the candidates from state boards have improved in JEE-2011 in comparison to previous years," an analytical report released by the IITs read.

Many students say a whimsical selection process has given an unfair advantage to students of certain boards. But IIT officials rubbish that. "Honestly, we had no clue that the Punjab state board would rank up there among the top three. We feel making it to the IITs has a lot to do with the coaching facilities available to students," said an IIT director.

Source:TOI