IIT 2013 details released by CBSE

Introduction and Scheme of Examination

It has been decided to hold a Joint Entrance Examination from the year 2013 for admission to the undergraduate programmes in Engineering in two parts, JEE-MAIN and JEE-ADVANCED. Only the top 150000 candidates (including all categories) based on performance in JEE MAIN will qualify to appear in the JEE ADVANCED examination. Admissions to IITs will be based only on category-wise All India Rank (AIR) in JEE ADVANCED, subject to condition that such candidates are in the top 20 percentile categories. Admission to NITs will be based on 40 % weightage for performance in Class XII board marks (normalized) and the remainder 60 % weightage would be given to performance in JEE Main and a combined All India Rank (AIR) would be decided accordingly. The policy could also be adopted by other Centrally Funded Technical Institutions (CFTIs) and participating Institutions. In case any State opts to admit students in the engineering Colleges affiliated to state Universities where States require separate merit list to be provided based on relative weightages adopted by the states, then the merit list shall be prepared with such relative weightages as may be indicated by States. The examination will be conducted in the Regional Languages of the State(s) on the requests of such State(s).

 Eligibility Criteria and List of Qualifying Examinations for JEE(Main) Exam 2013

The minimum academic qualification for appearing in JEE(MAIN) 2013 is that the candidate must have passed in final examination of 10+2 (Class XII) or its equivalent referred to as the qualifying examination (see below). Those appearing in 10+2 (Class XII) final or equivalent examination in 2013 may also appear in JEE(MAIN) 2013 provisionally. However, admission criteria in the concerned institution/university will be followed as prescribed by concerned university/institution and as per the guidelines & criteria prescribed by AICTE. The candidates who are seeking admission in NITs, IIITs or CFTIs must ensure their eligibility for the admission in NITs, IIITs and CFTIs.. The candidates who are aspirants only for IITs and ISM Dhanbad must ensure their eligibility for admission in IITs and ISM Dhanbad. The candidates who are aspirants for NITs, IIITs, CFTIs , IITs and ISM Dhanbad must ensure their eligibility for admission in NITs, IIITs, CFTIs, IITs and ISM Dhanbad.

Note – For eligibility of admission in IITs and ISM Dhanbad pl refer JEE(Advanced) website http://jee.iitd.ac.in

Qualifying Examinations – LIST OF QUALIFYING EXAMINATIONS i) The +2 level examination in the 10+2 pattern of examination of any recognized Central/State Board of Secondary Examination, such as Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi, and Council for Indian School Certificate Examination, New Delhi ii) Intermediate or two-year Pre-University Examination conducted by a recognized Board/University. iii) Final Examination of the two-year course of the Joint Services Wing of the National Defence Academy. iv) Any Public School/Board/University Examination in India or in foreign countries recognized by the Association of Indian Universities as equivalent to 10+2 system. v) H.S.C. Vocational Examination. vi) A pass grade in the Senior Secondary School Examination conducted by the National Open School with a minimum of five subjects. vii) 3 or 4-year diploma recognized by AICTE or a State Board of Technical Education.

Improvement of Marks/Results

If a candidate wants to improve his performance in Board’s Exam, he/she can do so but for consideration of that year’s result he/she has to appear in all the subjects and not the partial.

Pattern of Examination

Subject combination for each paper and type of questions in each paper are given in the table below: SUBJECTS		TYPE OF QUESTIONS		Duration
Paper 1	Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics		Objective type questions with equal weightage to Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics		3 Hours
Paper 2	Mathematics – Part I Aptitude Test – Part II & Drawing Test – Part III		Objective type questions Objective type questions questions to test Drawing Aptitude		3 Hours

Admissions Criteria including Normalization and Weightage for JEE(Main) Exam 2013 Admission to NITs, and IIITs, will be based on 40 % weightage for performance in Class XII board or other qualifying examinations marks (normalized) and the remainder 60 % weightage would be given to performance in JEE (Main) and a combined All India Rank (AIR) would be decided accordingly. The policy could also be adopted by other Centrally Funded Technical Institutions (CFTIs) and participating Institutions.

No of attempts in JEE(Main) Exam The number of attempts which a candidate can avail at JEE(Main) shall be limited to 03 (three) uniformly for all the candidates in consecutive years. The candidates passed +2 exam in 2011 or 2012 or appearing in +2 in 2013 are only eligible to appear in JEE(Main)-2013. Candidates passed +2 in 2010 or before or appearing in 2014 are not eligible to appear in JEE(Main)-2013.

Date of Examinations for JEE(Main) Exam 2013 Offline Exam – 7th April 2013 Online Exam – Between 8th April to 30th April 2013(the exact dates will be announced soon)

JEE(Advanced) related Only the top 150000 candidates (including all categories) based on performance in JEE MAIN will qualify to appear in the JEE ADVANCED examination. Admissions to IITs will be based only on category-wise All India Rank (AIR) in JEE ADVANCED, subject to condition that such candidates are in the top 20 percentile categories of their respective class xii board or other qualifying examination. The percentile will vary from year to year and across the Boards.

For more information and queries about JEE(Advanced) please contact jeeadv@admin.iitd.ac.in

XAT: 2013 Notification

XAT 2013 will be conducted on Sunday 6^th January 2013. Last date of Registration : 5th December

XLRI conducts test on behalf of the XAMI. For more than 60 years XLRI is conducting test at all India level to select the most appropriate for management education. The test score is being used by more than 100 institutes for the admission.

XAT 2013 would be conducted across India in the following cities.

Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Amritsar, Bangalore, Berhampur, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Cuttack, Dehradun, Delhi, Goa, Greater Noida, Gurgaon, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Jammu, Jamshedpur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mangalore, Mumbai, Nagpur, Noida, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Rourkela, Sambalpur, Surat, Tiruchirapalli, Trivandrum, Vadodara, Varanasi, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam.

XAT 2013 would also be conducted across the following three international cities.

Dhaka, Dubai, Kathmandu.

Official Website:  http://xatonline.net.in

Frequently Asked Questions

1. When does the Registration for XAT 2013 Start?
   • Registration for XAT 2013 starts on 20^th August 2012 and ends on 30^th November 2012.
2. What is the last date for receiving XAT Confirmation Page ?
   • Last date is 5^th December 2012
3. What is the eligibility criteria for taking XAT 2013?
   • A bachelors degree under 10+2+3 system from a recognized university or a deemed university.
4. I have less than 50% in graduation, am I eligible to apply for XAT 2013?
   • Yes, you are eligible to apply for XAT 2013.
5. I am in the final year of my graduation, am I eligible to take XAT 2013 for applying to XLRI or more than 100 other XLRI associated Management Institutes?
   • Yes, you are eligible for admission to XLRI. You need to complete your final year examination by June 10, 2013. Other XAT Members Institutes may have a different date regarding the completion of the final examination

XAT 2013:Participating Institutions

Source: http://xatonline.net.in/instweblist.aspx

1.	Acharya School of Management	Bangalore	www.acharya.ac.in
2.	Andhra Loyola Institute of Management	Vijayawada	www.andhraloyolacollege.ac.in
3.	APG Shimla University	Shimla	www.apg.edu.in
4.	Aryans Business School	Punjab	www.aryans.edu.in
5.	Asia Pacific Institute of Management	New Delhi	www.asiapacific.edu
6.	Bengal Institute of Business Studies	Kolkata	www.bibs.co.in
7.	Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Usha & Lakshmi Mittal Institute of Management	New Delhi	www.bulmim.ac.in
8.	Bhavan's Centre for Communication and Management	Bhubaneswar	www.bvbbhubaneswar.org
9.	Birla Institute of Management Technology	Greater Noida	www.bimtech.ac.in
10.	BLS Institute of Management	Mohan Nagar	www.blsim.org
11.	Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Institute of Management and Higher Studies	Kanpur	www.dduinstitute.org
12.	Delhi School of Professional Studies and Research	Delhi	www.dspsr.in
13.	Desh Bhagat Institute of Management & Computer Sciences	Amloh	www.deshbhagatinstitutes.com
14.	Disha Institute of Management and Technology	Dist. Raipur	www.dimatindia.com
15.	Driems Business School	Cuttack	www.dbs.ac.in
16.	Entrepreneurship & Management Process International	New Delhi	www.empiindia.com
17.	Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI)	Gandhinagar	www.ediindia.org
18.	Faculty of Management Studies, Goa University	Goa	www.unigoa.ac.in
19.	Fortune Institute of International Business	Delhi	www.fiib.edu.in
20.	Gitam Institute of Management	Visakhapatnam	www.gitam.edu
21.	Gitam School of International Business	Visakhapatnam	www.gsib.org
22.	Globsyn Business School	Kolkata	www.globsyn.edu.in
23.	Goa Institute of Management	Goa	www.gim.ac.in
24.	IBMR - Business Schools	Bangalore	www.ibmrbschool.org
25.	IFIM Business School	Bangalore	www.ifimbschool.com
26.	IILM College of Management Studies	Greater Noida	www.iilmcms.ac.in
27.	IILM Graduate School of Management	Greater Noida	www.iilmgsm.ac.in
28.	IILM Institute for Higher Education	Gurgaon	www.iilm.edu
29.	Indian Institute of Finance	Noida	www.iif.edu
30.	Indus Business Academy	Bangalore	www.iba.ac.in
31.	Indus World School of Business	NCR	www.iwsb.in
32.	Institute for Financial Management and Research	Chennai	www.ifmr.ac.in
33.	Institute for Technology and Management	Navi Mumbai	www.itm.edu
34.	Institute of Business Studies and Research	Navi Mumbai	www.ibsar.ac.in
35.	Institute of Management & Information Science	Bhubaneswar	www.imis.ac.in
36.	Institute of Science & Management	Ranchi	www.iismr.org
37.	International Academy of Management & Entrepreneurship	Bangalore	www.iame.org.in
38.	International Institute of Business Studies	Bangalore	www.iibsonline.com
39.	International School of Business & Media	Pune	www.isbm.ac.in
40.	International School of Management Excellence	Bangalore	www.isme.in
41.	Invertis Institute of Management Studies	Bareilly	www.invertis.org
42.	ISBR Business School	Bangalore	www.isbr.in
43.	Jagran Institute of Communication and Management	Bhopal	www.jicm.edu.in
44.	Jaipuria Institute of Management	Indore	www.jimindore.ac.in
45.	Jaipuria Institute of Management	Lucknow	www.jaipuria.ac.in
46.	Jaipuria Institute of Management	Noida	www.jimnoida.ac.in
47.	Jaipuria Institute of Management	Jaipur	www.jimj.ac.in
48.	Jindal Global Business School	Sonipat	www.jgbs.edu.in
49.	JK Lakshmipat University	Jaipur	www.jklu.edu.in
50.	Kejriwal Institute of Management & Development Studies	Ranchi	www.kimds.in
51.	Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies	Harihar	www.kiams.ac.in
52.	Kohinoor Business School & CMR	Khandala	www.kohinoor.ac.in
53.	Krupajal Business School	Bhubaneswar	www.krupajalbschool.org
54.	Lovely Professional University	Phagwara	www.lpu.in
55.	Loyola Academy	Secunderabad	www.loyolaacademy.ac.in
56.	Loyola Institute of Business Administration	Chennai	www.liba.edu
57.	Management Education & Research Institute	New Delhi	www.meri.edu.in
58.	Mangalvedhekar Institute of Management (MIM)	Solapur	www.mangalvedhekar.org
59.	Mar Athanasios College for Advanced Studies (MACFAST)	Kerala	www.macfast.org
60.	Marian Institute of Health Care Management	Panaji	www.marianinstitute.in
61.	MATS Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship	Bangalore	www.mats.ac.in
62.	MIT School of Business	Pune	www.mitsob.com
63.	MIT School of Telecom Management	Pune	www.mitsot.com
64.	Mount Carmel Institute of Management	Bangalore	www.mountcarmelinstitute.org
65.	MVRR Institute of Business Management	Krishna	www.mvrribmgudlavalleru.ac.in
66.	National School of Business	Bangalore	www.nsbindia.org
67.	New Delhi Institute of Management	New Delhi	ndimdelhi.org
68.	Praxis Business School	Kolkata	www.praxis.ac.in
69.	Prin. L.N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research	Mumbai	www.welingkar.org
70.	Pune Institute of Business Management	Pune	www.pibm.in
71.	Ravenshaw Management Centre	Cuttack	www.ravenshawuniversity.ac.in
72.	Regional College of Management Autonomous	Bhubaneswar	www.rcm.ac.in
73.	S P Jain Institute of Management & Research	Mumbai	www.spjimr.org
74.	School of Management Sciences	Varanasi	www.smsvaranasi.com
75.	School of Management, KIIT University	Bhubaneswar	www.ksom.ac.in
76.	SDM Institute for Management Development	Mysore	www.sdmimd.ac.in
77.	Shiva Institute of Management Studies	Ghaziabad	www.shivaims.edu.in
78.	SIET Institute of Management	Bangalore	www.bsim.in
79.	Siva Sivani Institute of Management	Secunderabad	www.ssim.ac.in
80.	Sri Shrada Institute of Indian Management Research	New Delhi	wwww.srisiim.org
81.	Sri Sri University	Bhubaneshwar	www.srisriuniversity.edu.in
82.	St. Aloysius Institute of Management and Information Technology	Mangalore	www.staloysics.ac.in
83.	St. Berchmans College	Kerala	www.sbmba.org
84.	St. Francis Institute of Management and Research (SFIMAR)	Mumbai	www.sfimar.org
85.	St. Joseph's College of Business Administration	Bangalore	www.sjcba.edu.in
86.	St. Joseph's Iinstitute of Management	Trichy	www.jiim.ac.in
87.	Suryadatta Group of Institutes	Pune	www.suryadatta.org
88.	T A Pai Management Institute	Manipal	www.tapmi.edu.in
89.	Taxila Business School	Jaipur	www.taxila.in
90.	The National Management School	Chennai	www.nms.edu.in
91.	The School of Business, Alliance University	Bangalore	www.alliance.edu.in
92.	Training & Advanced Studies in Management and Communications Ltd (TASMAC)	Pune	www.tasmac.ac.in/wales
93.	United World School of Business	Kolkata	www.unitedworld.in
94.	Vanguard Business School	Bangalore	www.vanguardbschool.com
95.	VIT University	Vellore	www.vit.ac.in
96.	WLC College India	Noida	www.wlccollege.org
97.	Xavier Institute of Development Action and Studies	M.P	www.xidas.in
98.	Xavier Institute of Management	Bhubaneswar	www.ximb.ac.in
99.	Xavier Institute of Management & Entrepreneurship	Bangalore	www.xime.org
100.	Xavier Institute of Management & Research	Mumbai	www.ximr.ac.in
101.	Xavier Institute of Social Service	Ranchi	www.xiss.ac.in
102.	Xavier Labour and Relations Institute	Jamshedpur	www.xlri.ac.in

CAT 2012: focus on your weak areas

With less than a month to go now for CAT 2012, most students would be wondering if they really have it in them to make it through the CAT exam. If you identify your weak areas and put in focussed effort to improve upon them, you will increase your chances to crack the CAT. Let us look at each of the areas in CAT and discuss how one can improve on them in the coming one month.
Verbal Ability:
Reading Comprehension: CAT has traditionally been an RC centric paper. The number of passages varies from 3 to 4 with three to four questions per passage.

If you identify your weak areas and put in focussed effort, you will increase your chances to bell the CAT.

A few critical factors in RC preparation:
Reading on diverse topics: Increasing familiarity with the kind of topics that appear in CAT will help the students save reading time and also get better on comprehension
Target all direct questions first followed by the inferential questions.
During the Test: Ideally not more than 10 minutes are to be spent per passage and it is to be ensured that all passages are looked at.
Verbal Ability: This includes grammar and word-based questions. For grammar, ensure you practice on the rules of Grammar using your study material or any book like Wren & Martin.
For word-based questions spend 30 minutes everyday on going through a list of most commonly misused words like homophones etc. The root-prefix-suffix method for word learning can help solve fill in the blanks questions in CAT.
Verbal Reasoning: This includes Para Jumbles and Para completion questions. Following are a few approaches to answer these questions:
Identify the introductory statement (this statement would tell us what the paragraph is all about)
Then identify links that would connect the two sentences. These are called connectives. These connectives can be conjunctions (but, and) or can be content connectives like cause–effect, generic to specific etc.
Remember that there are no short cuts to improving upon your VA skills. Practice is the key to success in this section. Spend at least an hour on regular reading every day and another 30 minutes reading CAT kind of passages from various online sources.
Quantitative Ability:
List out the areas/topics to focus on: As the time on hand is only one month, it is imperative that the students choose only those topics for preparation which would give them the maximum return for their time. A two pronged approach needs to be adopted for this
1. Mock-CAT Performance Analysis: Students should have a clear understanding of their comfort level in all Quant topics. Mock-CAT performances should be analyzed at a topic level. The areas where the students have been scoring below par consistently and the areas where the scores have been fluctuating should be the areas of focus.
2. Previous CAT paper analysis: The areas which have been consistently contributing to the CAT exam over the years should be identified and attention should be given to them.
Follow these simple steps while preparing
Understand the basics concepts of the selected topic thoroughly
Write down all the formulae and concepts related to the topic on a chart to use as a ready reckoner
Ensure that you know when a particular formula is to be used
Solve at least 30-40 questions (CAT level) from the concept
Logical Ability
The questions in logic can be broadly said to come from three areas viz. Puzzles, Venn Diagrams & Cubes, Deductions & Logical Connectives.
Of these, the questions on puzzles have been most common followed by Deductions and Venn Diagrams. Working out problems from the Study Material Booklets is often the best way to prepare for the different varieties of Questions that appear in CAT. Puzzle books like those by Shakuntala Devi, George Summers etc. provide exposure to high level logic puzzles and the approaches to tackle them.
The often-repeated word "Practice" is the key to crack the questions based on logic and reasoning. The students should put in as much time as possible in practising questions of different types, both online and on paper.
Data Interpretation:
The skills required to crack questions in DI are
1. Ability to analysis and understand difficult / complicated data
This is a skill which one can acquire through regular practice. The practice needs to involve questions of various difficulty levels and types. One approach would be to start solving all the DI sets from your study material. Once this is done, it is time to move online using 'Online Practice Tests'.
2. Ability to do calculations quickly
Speed of calculations is where the students should focus on, along with practising different sets. Acquiring this skill is often easier said than done as it is difficult to get over the old habits of scribbling numbers on a paper even for simple additions.
The point to be kept in mind when students practise sets as mentioned above is that, they should not only focus on the learning approach but should work out the answers themselves. This should be done in timed manner. The advantage of solving questions under time constraint would be that the students would be forced to increase their speed of calculations.
All the steps discussed above will help in increasing the level of preparation of the students. These, combined with the appropriate test taking strategy will go a long way in belling the CAT.
All the best
The writer is course director of CAT at Triumphant Institute of Management Education Pvt. Ltd (T.I.M.E.)

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