CET for Pilot Training on the cards – Government considering to introduce a Common Entrance Test for admission to flying training In India there is almost 40 institutes which are imparting pilot training to 2,500 individuals per year.

An official of Civil Aviation Ministry said, the proposal for a Common Entrance Test, on the lines of Medical and Engineering Entrance Test, is on the drawing board. The move gained currency after the cases of pilots forging documents to obtain license came to light., as reported in the Indian Express

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No Entrance Test for Admission to GGSIPU Mtech &  Part Time MBA Programms from 2011-2012

GGSIPU to do away with Part Time MBA and MTech programmes and conduct Joint Entrance Exams for other courses like BPharma, BHMS, BPT, BOT and B Sc  in a single day.

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Universal syllabus for all of the boards coming from 2011 for class XI & XII

Beginning with the academic year 2011-12, the science along with mathematics curriculum for Class XI and XII is going to be uniform in all boards — HSC, ICSE and CBSE. This implies almost all junior educational institutions will certainly teach the identical topics and subjects and also entrance exams regarding different professional and college degree programs are going to be in accordance with this new syllabus.

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Kerala CEE will have “One Mark” negative marking in KEAM 2010 Entrance Exam. The Commissioner for Entrance Examinations has reverted the decision to introduce less negative marking for wrong answers. The 2010 prospectus released on Dec 7 had reduced negative marking for wrong answers to half-mark from one mark. Check out KEAM 2010 Notification

The negative mark was made half a mark to “remove students’ anxieties about negative mark to some extent. Nevertheless the demand from corners to completely eliminate the system of negative mark cannot be conceded,” the CEE press note said.

The prospectus of the entrance examination for 2010 says that the negative mark would only be half a mark. However, consequent on the government decision on Wednesday, clause 9.4.4 of the prospectus will be amended suitably. A government order has been issued for this.

Source : The Hindu

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IGNOU Engineering Entrance Exam on Dec. 27, Goes Offline

After the online entrance exam conducted by Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) failed to take off due to its online system crashing on October 31, the university is finally going to conduct the exam on December 27.

This test will now be conducted through Optical Mark Reading (OMR) method. The IGNOU offers distance education to over 18 lakh students.

This online entrance exam was for students seeking admissions into diploma and degree programmes for engineering under IGNOU. But the system had crashed due to the server problem with Yahoo.

Around 9,350 students who had appeared for the exam had to suffer as they couldn’t attempt the exam.

IGNOU on November 3 had also demanded an explanation from Yahoo. A report was sought from the company. According to the exam coordinator for online entance exam, Dr Shiv Kumar Vyas, the exam had started and the system immediately collapsed as it could not survive the hits.

We are more concerned about the students as we have to start their academic session, which has already been delayed. This is the main reason we are conducing the exam offline now through the OMR method. The online exam will be conducted from next year.”

“The tentative date for the exam has been decided as December 27, but nothing has been finalised as yet. The applications for the exam are over 9,000. Read More

Source : Pune Mirror

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Supreme Court rules on PG Medical Admission – Centre’s decision not binding on States

The Supreme Court has ruled that the  respective  state government has the discretion to disallow reservation of seats for backward sections in post-graduate medical courses if it deems fit.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday held that the Centre’s decision to provide quota for SCs and STs in post-graduate medical courses did not automatically bind the state governments to follow suit and implement it in their medical colleges.

It took note of the fact that the Centre has provided for reservation to SC and ST candidates in the All India Entrance Examination for MD/MS/PG Diploma and MDS courses and also in the All-India quota PG seats, but firmly handed down the ruling that “the same cannot automatically be applied in other sections where state governments have power to regulate.”

The court was dealing with a petition filed by Dr Gulshan Prakash against the Haryana government’s decision not to allow reservations in the entrance test for Doctor of Medicine (MD), Master of Surgery (MS), post-graduate diploma and Master of Dental Surgery (MDS) in the state.

Under Article 15(4), states could, if they wanted, provide for reservations by either a law or executive instructions at any level for socially and educationally backward classes. On the scope of the article, the court said preferential treatment could be given when socially and educationally backward classes needed it.

“This article enables the state government to make provisions for the uplift of Scheduled Castes and Tribes, including reservation of seats for admission to educational institutions,” the court said. “Article 15(4) does not make any mandatory provision for reservation and the power to make such reservation under Article 15(4) is discretionary and no writ can be issued to effect reservation. Such special provision may be made not only by the legislature but also by the executive.”

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Source : The Telegraph and TOI

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National Entrance Examination For Design scrapped

A DESIGN ENTRANCE examination, on the lines of Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) and IIMs’ Combined Admission Test (CAT), for entry into seven design institutions, including the premier National Institute of Design (NID), has been scrapped just a year after being introduced.

NID had taken the initiative for conducting the National Entrance Examination For Design (NEED) last year and had roped in six design institutes.

These institutes included Sristi School of Art, Design and Technology Bangalore, DJ Academy Coimbatore, Wigen & Leigh, Pearl Academy, IILM Gurgaon and Indian Institute of Crafts & Design, Jaipur.

NID feels the scope of the test should be expanded as there were requests from several other design schools. NID now wants to set up a consortium of design schools providing quality design education before rolling out NEED.

Although not on the scale of IIT-JEE or CAT in terms of numbers, NEED was conceived as a one-stop test for admission to India’s D-Schools. The idea was to create a database of candidates based on their ranking in the test that could be used by the candidates to secure admission to other Design Schools.

Source Economic Times

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IIT JEE 2010 scheduled for April 11, 2010

The Joint Entrance Examination (IIT JEE) for admission to the undergraduate courses in 15 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) besides ISMU, Dhanbad, would be conducted on April 11, 2010, the Undergraduate Admissions Committee said here on Wednesday .

In a press release here, the Committee said two papers, each having separate sections in chemistry, mathematics and physics, will have objective type questions, “designed to test comprehension, reasoning and analytical ability of candidates.”

The syllabus for the examination will also be available on IIT websites. Students can submit the application forms online or off-line, the release said.

Source :  Hindu Business Line

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Medical Council of India (MCI) proposes All India Entrance Test for MBBS Admission

Medical Council of India (MCI) , the regulatory body for medical education, has proposed one entrance examination for all medical colleges in the country. This will cover 290 medical colleges, both private and government-run. Such a move, the MCI says, will do away with the practice of students taking multiple entrance examinations and provide a fair and transparent selection procedure based on merit, reports the Indian Express

The MCI proposal for a “single common national entrance” examination was sent to the Health Ministry on June 24, pointing out that Supreme Court rulings have mandated a common entrance test. The MCI wants a common admission criterion to be adopted across the country. In its proposal, the MCI has said that the examination should be conducted by a national regulatory authority.

At present, some government colleges reserve 15 per cent seats for students from across the country and the remaining 85 per cent seats are filled by students from that particular state on the basis of a merit list.

The MCI wants a common examination on the lines of the All-India test conducted by the Government of India for government-run medical colleges in states for the pooled 15 per cent seats.

The proposal, a copy of which is with The Indian Express, states:

• There should be only one entrance exam for admission to MBBS course by all institutes across the country, which should be held in English and all scheduled languages.

• The Government should identify an authority for conducting the examination.

• The structuring should be such that it should be evaluated by a computerized mechanism to avoid manual/human interference.

• Admission to all MBBS courses in all medical institutes should be strictly made on the basis of inter se merit of the relevant applicant in the common entrance examination.

• A mechanism be evolved where a list of all students eligible in different states can be segregated from the total list of all eligible candidates. This could be used by state authorities to admit students eligible as per the admission criteria in respective state institutes.

• In institutes of All-India character including deemed universities, institutes owned and managed by the Central government, state governments, universities, local self government trusts/charitable societies and all other organizations, admissions will be based on merit obtained at the competitive national common entrance examination.

News Source : IE

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