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Four months part-time course for graduates possibly leading to a job in ICICI

1 comment May 17th, 2009

M.SC Computational Finance and B.Sc (Hons) in Math and Computing at Institute of Mathematics & Applications Bhubaneswar

May 15th, 2009

NISER unvelis its new web design; looks pretty

May 14th, 2009

Institute of Mathematics and Applications to train 52 tribal students from KBK for IIT/NIT/NISER: Ad in Dharitri

2 comments May 14th, 2009

IIT Hyderabad to start Masters and PhD this year

Update: The comment below is correct. They have had the Ph.D program since January 2009. Perhaps the MHRD found out about it recently and put out a PIB release and as a result various news items came about.

Following is from http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1255708.

The newly-created Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, will offer Masters and PhD programme from the coming session.

It will offer Masters of Technology (M Tech) Degree in five subjects — Chemical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, the HRD Ministry said in a statement today.

Similarly, students can pursue PhD in nine subjects. These are Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences, Materials Science and Engineering, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering and Physics.

Meritorious candidates can avail scholarships. The institute will entertain only on-line applications. The last date for applying for the courses is May 20.

I have not heard about similar offering of post-graduate courses in the other new IITs.

16 comments May 13th, 2009

Admission Notice of National Law University Orissa at Cuttack

Its web page, currently under construction, is at http://www.nluc.org.in/.

May 13th, 2009

NEST examination committee for NISER and UM-DAE is on the right track

After the problems with wrong evaluations with respect to IIT JEE question papers, NEST, the entrance examination for NISER and UM-DAE, plans to take a cautious approach. Following is from NISER-NEST 2009 web page:

NEST question papers and correct answers to the questions of NEST examination conducted on May 10 2009 will be available HERE on May 12 at 4 pm  is available HERE Since May 12, 4:00 pm.

Candidates or any other persons may send their comments to feedback [at] niser.ac.in

Comments received till May 20 will be put before the NEST Examination Committee. These comments will be reviewed by the committee and the final correct answers will be announced.

The decision of the Paper Setter’s Committee regarding the correct answers will be final.

This show of humility by the NEST question setters is refreshing.

3 comments May 12th, 2009

OUAT waiting for Orissa government’s nod for its proposed College of Forestry: Dharitri

May 11th, 2009

Status of deemed university applicants as of 31st March 2009

The following is from http://www.ugc.ac.in/notices/pendingprosaldawis160409.pdf.

Among the above, Orissa Institute of Technology, has already been declared a state university with the new name VSSUT.

4 comments May 9th, 2009

ASBM’s efforts to become a deemed university by 2012: Samaja

May 9th, 2009

Some thoughts on previous year NEST questions for NISER and UM-DAE

Following are from postings in the NISER orkut community about the NEST exam in the previous two years.

Aaram

The pattern of NEST is somewhat as follows : The paper consists of 5 parts –
1. General, 2. Physics, 3. Chemistry , 4. Biology, 5. Mathematics
The General section is mandatory for all. Amongst the other 4, you are supposed to attend ANY 3. All sections carry equal weightage. Regarding the query about scientists and contributions, such kind of questions needn’t be expected in the NEST exam. It basically checks your analytical skill, reasoning and application of concepts. Hence, direct formulae, simple numericals etc. are less probable in NEST.
There will be questions with only one correct answer as well as more than one right alternative. As with the case of SPECIAL textbooks for NEST, your thorough knowledge of basic concepts will be your best guide in the exam, as it evaluates your ability to reason properly, apply your knowledge and arrive at the answer.

!sh@n

abt question types ,

hi ,

The previous year’s paper are not released in public domain yet . however i can assure u it is not like any engineering or medical competitive exam papers. The questions require more analysis and are more thought-provoking. n about books , i think ncert books plus some books with sound theoretical concept would help .

!sh@n

>>henry

analytical questions like, u might be given some graphs or a trend of any sort n u l need to answer based on wht u deduce frm it ( eg bacterial population growth , nuclei decay kind of ). i do not trhink u l need to hurry as in other exams but time management of course helps .

Aaram

The question pattern ‘s a bit different from IIT-JEE, AIEEE or AIPMT. Here, you have a compulsory general section + 3/4 subjects(Phy,chem,bio,math) , & in each section you wil be having ten 3 mark questions n five (or was it six?) 5 mark questions, or atleast thats the way it used to be! The 3 mark qns wil hav only one right answer out of the given choices while the 5 mark ones wil hav more than one correct alternatives. Remember that the 3 mark qns wil fetch you a -1 if you get that wrong, but Heard that there wil b no -ve marking for the 5 mark ones. Heard that this time , the general section ‘s got as equal weightage as the other sections. And regarding some exact qns askd in previous xam, my poor memory doesnt help. Sid , Ishan – May be you can help ém out wid a qn or two.

Aaram

Well, I dont think it’d be necessary for you to be a master of ‘history of science’ to answer d qns in general section successfully. There wont be any qn demanding the answer for "In which year did Roentgen invent the X-ray?" or "Who was the only woman to win the Nobel prize twice?". But for the general section, you need to hav a good ability to ‘think out of the box’ as Sid has mentioned, to be logical, to reason well, n here too, to be clear with your basic concepts. ‘Cos, tho d qns wont be about d years or names, it ‘d definitely help you if you know what ‘s d idea/concept/principle behind different famous classical experiments in science(like Millikan’s oil drop expt, Luria-Delbrook’s expt etc.)

VED

nest 2007 questions.

i remember one or two questions.
1. given that hydrogen gas is at some volume V & pressure P. if the volume is tripled what would be its final pressure. the gas is kept in athermos flask.

2. place the order in which the following occured in time scale.

* darwin proposed his theory.
*kepler proposed his theory on planetary motion.
*there were two more, i dont remember.

3. there was also a question related to the topic critical temperature of real gases. how does the gas behave when it undergoes free expansion. helium gets heated up as its critical temperature for cooling is higher than the room temperature. a whole paragraph was given on this topic & 4 questions were asked in this in the general(compulsory ) section. this question was similar to unseen passage,.

Vaisakh

About General Section

I got some questions of the general section from some of the present 1st year students of NISER. Last year there where 3 or 4 questions from the History of Science part like the year in which Einstein gave the concept of stimulated emission of light, and what Fermat’s last theorem states and what is the main observation in proof for the expanding nature of light.

In last 2 years NEST papers there where questions asking you to arrange the given events in the chronological order. Also as Ved have already said, there were 3-4 question which you should answer based on the paragraphs given above. Last year the paragraphs were about Fresnel and Young’s wave theory of light. And in the year before the paragraphs were about the critical temperature of gases.

Altogether there were 10 questions in the General Section.

Vaisakh

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ya it was a mistake, i mean the expanding nature of Universe

Aaram

>>Swati

To know abt the no: n type of qns,pls refer to previous posts.

For Biology, the biology questions of NEST-2007 were more of ‘checking the concept type’ than ‘checking the information type’. For e.g., there was a question in which a diseased condition called anhydrotic dyplasia was described and questions were asked based on the info provided( like"what if it was like this?". However, this may not be the case always. You are supposed to know the classical experiments, the key concepts, and the basic information, if which ‘s included in your syllabus (ie, informative knowledge of things in syllabus is also important. For e.g., if somebody asks you "How can you possibly reduce the risk of cardiac diseases?" to answer,you must know WHAT all factors lead to cardiac diseases).
However, cramming up lots of data aint gonna help you either. The concepts behind the experiments and the data are more important. So, in the li’l time left now, try to brush up the different concepts in biology ( I mean, for e.g, try to understand what leads to evolution more thoroughly than what are the different kinds of evolutionary evidences, or When you rewind Lederberg’s replica plating expt., try to figure out what they meant to prove by the expt, what was the reasoning etc. When you say Dihybrid ratio ‘s 9:3:3:1, think what did Mendel infer frm that ratio. ) . Such a kind of thinking can really help solve the biology questions n all NEST qns in general.

 

3 comments May 9th, 2009

Thank you Digambara, Sandeep babu, Braja babu and the others: Looks like CUO Koraput will start in Koraput because of your efforts

Following are excerpts from a report in tathya.in.

Professor Banerjee met the Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here to apprise him the developments on the new varsity front. 

She is clearly defensive and said that the campus will be at Koraput and classes will start in August next.  …

During the meeting with Chief Minister, she made it clear that the Campus will be at Koraput. 

She said that there seems to be some misgivings about the Second Campus at Bhubaneswar. 

Prof. Baneerjee seems defensive and said that all out efforts are being made to start the Campus at Koraput.

Mr.Dasverma was outraged over the decision and demanded action against the people concerned.

Young NROs led by Digamabara Patra created huge stir in both the state and at national level. 

Professor Patra wrote it to the Prime Minister, Minister HRD and Chief Minister.

More than 100 students, teachers, educationists and members of the civil society demanded immediate action by sending e-mails. 

All of them demanded that if et al the second campus will be opened it should start at Bhawanipatna in Kalahandi. 

The Chief Minister’s Office(CMO), was flooded with e-mails from all parts of the world and the mandarins were worried over the matter. 

Bijay Kumar Patnaik, Principal Secretary to CM took up the matter seriously. 

And Prof.Banerjee was summoned to clarify the factual position. 

Madhu Sudan Padhi, Secretary Higher Education department, who did not buy the idea of Second Campus of CUO here, before starting the original campus at Koraput.

Mr.Padhi asked her to make arrangements in Koraput. 

Prof. Banerjee is now under pressure to start classes at Koraput.

Following is from Samaja.

May 8th, 2009

IMMT offers a 1 year PG Diploma in Mineral Engineering

The details of the course is at http://www.immt.res.in/academic/. It looks like a very good program to pursue and should lead to jobs in the various mining and mineral processing plants (including steel and aluminum plants) in Orissa. Following is the program structure.

Duration : The PG Diploma programme will be of one year duration, consisting of two semesters. Both theory classes and practical demonstrations will be taken up during the 1st semester for six courses. During the 2nd semester, the students will be carrying out project work.

May 5th, 2009

Professor Faizan Mustafa takes charge as the VC of National Law University of Orissa (NLUO)

Following is an excerpt from a report in tathya.in.

Professor Faizan Mustafa has taken over as the first Vice Chancellor (VC) the National Law University of Orissa (NLUO) today. …

Dr.B S Chauhan, Chief Justice of Orissa High Court and Chancellor of the University approved and accepted his appointment here on 2 May.  …

Dr.Chauhan has also instructed the VC to admit students from the next academic session i.e. 2009-2010. 

An admission advertisement would be released soon, said official sources. 

Prof.Mustafa after taking over as the VC on 2 May, he said that he would try his best to prove worthy of confidence reposed in him and would leave no stone unturned in establishing a World Class Law University at Cuttack. 

The focus of new Law University would be “Justice Studies” rather than traditional “Legal Studies” and Mining Law, Water Law, Shipping Law, Food Law and Agriculture Law would receive special attention, said VC of NLU, Orissa.

2 comments May 4th, 2009

Number of students registered for NEST 2009, the entrance examination for NISER and UM-DAE

As per http://nest.niser.ac.in/choosecentre.php the number of students registered for NEST and their centers are:

• Ahmedabad: 168
• Allahabad: 285
• Bengaluru: 174
• Bhopal: 577
• Bhubaneswar: 3303
• Chandigarh: 413
• Chennai: 418
• Dehradun: 165
• Delhi: 1458
• Guwahati: 159
• Hyderabad:727
• Jaipur: 653
• Jammu: 61
• Kochi: 539
• Kolkata: 1192
• Lucknow: 841
• Mumbai: 837
• Nagpur: 270
• Panaji: 25
• Patna: 830
• Raipur: 262
• Ranchi: 526
• Sambalpur: 248
• Shillong: 17
• Simla: 38
• Srinagar: 14

The total is 14,200. (Last year 8,000 appeared NEST.) The total number of seats that are available this year are 52 in NISER and 30 in UM-DAE.

9 comments May 2nd, 2009

Intensive Advanced Course in Odissi at the Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Odissi Research Center: Admission ad from Dharitri

April 27th, 2009