Articles in IIT Gandhinagar
Last week, the Ministry of Human Resources Development had announced that it will soon launch an app, IIT PAL, to help engineering aspirants in their preparation for the Joint Entrance Examination. The student community rejoiced at this initiative as the app was to be launched in two months’ time and would have been available free […]
Last week, the Ministry of Human Resources Development had announced that it will soon launch an app, IIT PAL, to help engineering aspirants in their preparation for the Joint Entrance Examination. The student community rejoiced at this initiative as the app was to be launched in two months’ time and would have been available free […]
Picture for representation purpose only In a Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, yesterday, May 25 2016, approval for conversion of Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad to an IIT under the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 was approved. This decision brings to an end a long standing demand of students and […]
Harasees Nanda, an IIT aspirant who took the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) has moved to the Punjab and Haryana High court on May 23, 2016, against the Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE). Nanda filed a case claiming the answer key released by CBSE for JEE Mains 2016 on April 16, was incorrect. Nanda secured […]
The two-hour break between Paper 1 and 2 of JEE Advanced isn’t a long one. The idea is to give candidates some time to relax after racking their brains in attempting the tedious three-hour-long Paper 1, refresh and prepare to take Paper 2 head-on. However, most students spend this time fretting and fuming over what […]
I recently read an article here by a student, talking about the sporting culture at his college, which prompted me to write about the same at my institute. IIT Guwahati has a special place for sports. The students not only love watching the game but also playing with equal enthusiasm. There is no dearth of participants or […]
The Joint Engineering Examination Mains 2016 results were out on April 27, 2016. Those who couldn’t make it to the JEE Advanced exam, fretted and fumed, and sadly one aspirant killed herself. And that girl’s score wasn’t even so bad that she could not have made it to a decent engineering college. Another young life […]
Page 1 of ORS (Picture for representation purpose only) The Optical Response Sheet (ORS) is a defining feature of JEE Advanced. It holds the key to a candidate’s engineering dreams. The paper consists of two pages with the same layout. The students need to mark answers on the first page, and it will stay with […]
The Palaj campus of Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, has added another feather in its green cap by installing a solar energy plant. The Grid Interactive Rooftop Solar PV Project has a current capacity of total 200 kWp, and it is expected to scale up the power generation to 500kWp in the coming months. The […]
Anukripa, Krupa and Asmita at IIT Madras “Be Our Pondatti”, a parody of Call Me May Be by three students of IIT Madras, has gone viral on the Net. The girls – Asmita Ghosh, Anukripa Alango, and Krupa Varghese – rewrote the lyrics of the Carly Rae Jepson’s 2012 hit and turned it into a […]