With just a week left for class 12 students to take up government examinations, several students are making last-minute preparations as they would lose a chance to get into premier institutes like IIT as only the top 50,000 from the JEE main exam all over India would make it to the JEE advanced test. Sensing the difficulty in getting into institutes like IIT and NIT, students have started to apply in large numbers to reputed deemed universities like VIT, SRM and Sastra.
VIT university chancellor, Dr G. Viswanathan, told DC on Saturday that over 1.25 lakh students had applied for entrance examination and, as the university had extended the deadline for applications up to March 17, they expect the final number to touch 2 lakh, 40,000 more than last year.
“As students need to write two examinations - JEE main and advanced, besides a separate one for the state institutions - students are apprehensive about the competition and their chance to get into a top-class institute like IIT, so they are applying in large numbers to get a seat in institutes like VIT,” he said.
Thanjavur-based Sastra university chancellor R. Sethuraman also pointed out a similar trend in his institute. “We issue application forms after class 12 results are announced and admit 70 per cent of the students based on their class 12 marks and the rest through the revised AIEEE ranking based on a transparent counselling process,” he said.
However, Mr Sethuraman added that the number of enquiries the university received had increased by 10 to 15 per cent, which could be termed as a welcome one.
Shravan, an IIT aspirant in the city, said he had applied to a few reputed deemed universities like VIT and SRM as he was not certain about his prospects of a seat in IITs and NITs. “Until last year, AIEEE and JEE had a different pattern, which we could clear with much difficulty, but it is going to be much more difficult from the coming academic year because of the new pattern. As I don’t want to take a chance, I’ve applied to some of the top deemed universities where I could get a seat.”
Don’t pressurise kids, warn docs
With examinations fast approaching,doctors are warning parents against putting too much pressure on their children to perform, as this could upset their hormonal balance and lead to heath disorders later on in life.
“Anxiety, tension and impatience usually found among the old, could become common among students, if they are subjected to stress during exams,” says Dr. Rex Sargunam, former director, Institute of Child Health and Hospital for Children, Egmore.
Regretting that parents try to make children afraid of a bad performance in their board exams, he says this could only inflate their stress levels and lead to poor health during examinations. “If the students are made to feel fearful or anxious over a prolonged period of time it could result in additional secretion of hormones affecting their mindset in adolescence,” he added.
The situation is worse in private schools as the parents see the plus two board examination marks as the gateway to higher education. “A lot of pressure is mounted on students who want to do engineering or medicine,” said Ms. Usha Lakshminarayan, a government school teacher, strongly suggesting busting the myth that engineering is a superior field of study.
“Parents should realise that the rote learning which gets their children admission to engineering courses is of no use. But of late the situation is changing in government schools too,” she noted.
Source: http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130224/news-current-affairs/article/race-begins-deemed-varsities
VIT university chancellor, Dr G. Viswanathan, told DC on Saturday that over 1.25 lakh students had applied for entrance examination and, as the university had extended the deadline for applications up to March 17, they expect the final number to touch 2 lakh, 40,000 more than last year.
“As students need to write two examinations - JEE main and advanced, besides a separate one for the state institutions - students are apprehensive about the competition and their chance to get into a top-class institute like IIT, so they are applying in large numbers to get a seat in institutes like VIT,” he said.
Thanjavur-based Sastra university chancellor R. Sethuraman also pointed out a similar trend in his institute. “We issue application forms after class 12 results are announced and admit 70 per cent of the students based on their class 12 marks and the rest through the revised AIEEE ranking based on a transparent counselling process,” he said.
However, Mr Sethuraman added that the number of enquiries the university received had increased by 10 to 15 per cent, which could be termed as a welcome one.
Shravan, an IIT aspirant in the city, said he had applied to a few reputed deemed universities like VIT and SRM as he was not certain about his prospects of a seat in IITs and NITs. “Until last year, AIEEE and JEE had a different pattern, which we could clear with much difficulty, but it is going to be much more difficult from the coming academic year because of the new pattern. As I don’t want to take a chance, I’ve applied to some of the top deemed universities where I could get a seat.”
Don’t pressurise kids, warn docs
With examinations fast approaching,doctors are warning parents against putting too much pressure on their children to perform, as this could upset their hormonal balance and lead to heath disorders later on in life.
“Anxiety, tension and impatience usually found among the old, could become common among students, if they are subjected to stress during exams,” says Dr. Rex Sargunam, former director, Institute of Child Health and Hospital for Children, Egmore.
Regretting that parents try to make children afraid of a bad performance in their board exams, he says this could only inflate their stress levels and lead to poor health during examinations. “If the students are made to feel fearful or anxious over a prolonged period of time it could result in additional secretion of hormones affecting their mindset in adolescence,” he added.
The situation is worse in private schools as the parents see the plus two board examination marks as the gateway to higher education. “A lot of pressure is mounted on students who want to do engineering or medicine,” said Ms. Usha Lakshminarayan, a government school teacher, strongly suggesting busting the myth that engineering is a superior field of study.
“Parents should realise that the rote learning which gets their children admission to engineering courses is of no use. But of late the situation is changing in government schools too,” she noted.
Source: http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130224/news-current-affairs/article/race-begins-deemed-varsities
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