New Delhi: With students from engineering background dominating management programmes in IIMs, the premier B-schools are planning some changes in the Common Admission Test to ensure a broad-based representation.
"Efforts are on to have a re-look at the Common Admission Test (CAT)...some changes that will be helpful for people from other discipline," said CAT 2012 convener and professor at IIM Kozhikode SSS Kumar. He, however, refused to divulge details saying the plan was still at the drawing board stage and deliberations were underway.
Talking to reporters in New Delhi, he said over 67 per cent (over 1.44 lakh) of the candidates appearing for the ongoing the CAT this year are from engineering discipline. Total number of candidates registered for CAT are 2,14,068. IIM Kozhikode director Debashis Chatterjee said the aim was to have a broad-based talent of human pool across disciplines and the best minds.
Managing director of Prometric India Soumitra Roy which is partnering with IIMs in holding the test said by the end of today over 36,000 candidates would have appeared for the test, being held in a staggered manner till November 6. The registration this year for the CAT test has also thrown in some interesting trend....
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05:01 PM, Oct 15, 2012
New Delhi: The IIT Kanpur on Saturday accepted the new Joint Entrance Exam pattern proposed by the Human Resource Development Ministry, clearing the way to make changes in the reputed examination. Most of the members of the IIT Kanpur senate agreed to the latest prescribed pattern avoiding a confrontation on the issue. The confirmation of the exam pattern changes will be given at the academic senate meet on Sunday. ...
07:48 AM, Jul 29, 2012
Kanpur/New Delhi: IIT-Kanpur on Saturday decided to accept the common entrance based on percentile ranking as an "interim" measure only for 2013 and retain the existing eligibility condition for students who passed their board examination in 2012. For 2014 and onwards, it suggested constitution of a senate committee which will study all aspects of the admission process and arrive at recommendations. Further, it said the number of students to be...
08:39 PM, Jul 28, 2012
Kolkata: The Common Entrance Test (CET) for admission to engineering and medical colleges is likely to be introduced all over the country by the next four years, Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal on Thursday said. "It (Common Entrance Test) will take three to four years for being introduced in all states," he said at a media interaction. Sibal said that during his talk with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee...
12:39 AM, Jul 06, 2012
The Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE) declared results of the Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test (EAMCET) held in 2012 and conducted by Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, on behalf of APSCHE. This examination is the prerequisite for admission into various professional courses offered in government/private Colleges in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Candidates can log on to http://www.apeamcet.org/Content/ResultsDisplayNew.aspx to access their results. In case heavy...
10:37 AM, Jul 03, 2012
New Delhi: HRD Minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday skipped the meeting with IIT Council to resolve the common entrance exam controversy even as an IIT Faculty Federation member claimed that a compromise formula has been worked out. Sources say Sibal was not present as he wanted to show that the IITs are autonomous and there is no government interference. Sibal, who is also the IIT Council Chairperson, instead sent a...
03:43 PM, Jun 27, 2012
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 admission to undegraduate engineering courses. Sources in the IIT faculty said that the government is considering this proposal to break the logjam over the proposed common entrance test....
12:14 AM, Jun 20, 2012
The Maharashtra Women and Child Welfare Ministry will adopt the four daughters of a woman labourer from Beed district who died during an illegal abortion last month. ...
10:53 PM, Jun 11, 2012
New Delhi: Even as confusion reigns over the HRD Ministry's proposed common entrance test for all IITs, with some institutions backing it and others opposing it, it is the aspiring engineering students who are suffering the most. Kshitij is one of the lakhs of students every year who dream of joining the prestigious IITs. But with the deadlock persisting between the HRD minister's proposal and the senates of different IITs,...
06:40 PM, Jun 11, 2012
Tonight at 10 pm CNN-IBN's Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel of experts, Should the IITs be totally independent from the govt? Have a question on the issue for our panelists? Post them here.
01:19 PM, Jun 11, 2012
New Delhi: The IITs appeared to be divided on Saturday over HRD ministry's 'one-nation one-test' proposal with the prestigious engineering institutions at Guwahati and Kharagpur opposing IIT-Kanpur's decision to conduct its own entrance exam from next year and backed the Centre's move. IIT-Delhi, meanwhile, is being pushed by its Alumni Association to follow the example of IIT-Kanpur and oppose the move initiated by HRD Minister Kapil Sibal. Criticising the decision...
11:26 PM, Jun 09, 2012
New Delhi: After facing opposition from certain sections of the IIT, HRD minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday got some much needed support from almost all the state government, who reached a consensus on the common entrance test for engineering colleges. "We have to compete internationally, all states have endorsed it. They have given full support," Sibal said. However, even as they backed the idea of a joint entrance examination, almost...
11:24 PM, Jun 05, 2012
New Delhi: After concerns raised by state governments and Opposition from certain sections of the IIT, HRD minister Kapil Sibal got some much needed support from his state counterparts. There was consensus on the common entrance test for engineering colleges. "We have to compete internationally, all states have endorsed it. They have given full support," Sibal said. At the annual meeting of education ministers, even BJP ruled states gave it...
08:43 PM, Jun 05, 2012
New Delhi: State education ministers have given a go ahead for a joint entrance test for all central engineering colleges. BJP run states like Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh have also endorsed the new common admission test system which will factor in class 12 board results as well. Bihar says state governments should also be consulted on the matter. The HRD Ministry had recently announced a new format for the...
01:56 PM, Jun 05, 2012
New Delhi: In the backdrop of government's announcement to hold a common entrance test for undergraduate programmes in IITs under a new format, the Faculty federation of the institutes on Thursday alleged the new pattern would erode the autonomy of the elite institutions. "As far as holding the test is concerned, the new format will erode the autonomous status enjoyed by IITs," said President of Faculty Federation of IIT-Delhi, Sanjeev...
11:55 PM, May 31, 2012
Starting next year, IIT council, NIT and IIIT council will have a single entrance test for engineering colleges which come under the three councils. ...
09:50 PM, May 28, 2012
However, experts say the move would be unfair to students. ...
07:03 PM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: The joint council of the IITs and NITs will meet on Monday to discuss the government's move to hold a single entrance test for undergraduate technical courses. Sources say that the IITs, by and large, have opted to retain the existing format of JEE for 2013. Ahead of Monday's crucial meeting, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal on Sunday met the IIT faculty federation and is understood to have sought...
09:01 AM, May 28, 2012
Chennai: Defending its decision to do away with Common Entrance Test (CET) for admission into professional courses, Tamil Nadu government today said the enrolment of rural students into engineering courses has gone up by more that ten per cent since it was scrapped. "The percentage of rural students admitted into engineering courses during 2005 and 2006 when the Common Entrance Test was conducted, has been 56.72 per cent and 58.26...
12:23 AM, Feb 23, 2012
Mumbai: In good news for public sector bank jobs aspirants and their prospective employers, there will be a common all-India entrance test from next year with an aim to reduce time and hassles in the recruitment process. The recruitment process, beginning from the advertisement to examination and interview stage to final recruitment, which now takes about a year to get over will drop drastically by a third, reducing the anxiety...
06:21 PM, Dec 08, 2010
