“Engineers Make the World” – reads the bumper sticker on a mid-size car driven by a person in his mid-twenties. Needless to say that the owner of this automobile is an Engineer by education and profession.
Why is Engineering considered to be one of the best career options today? There are several parts to this answer. Let’s start with the sheer number of opportunities available for engineering graduates today. Irrespective of their specialization – like Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering, engineers command a large percentage of the jobs that are available today. What makes Engineers click? We asked a senior executive of a large business house that recruits engineers in hundreds every year. The answer – “They know how to think sequentially, in a structured manner”. Of course this answer does not take away the value of the technical content that is taught over a four-year period. It is just that it is taken for granted.
There are thousands of Engineering Colleges in India. These colleges produce lakhs of Engineers every year. Just like in any other education discipline, the quality of education offered in these colleges also ranges through excellent to average to below par. So it is important for a student aspiring to be an engineer to ensure that he gets admission into a good college. The process of selecting the good colleges need not be difficult. The thumb rule is “try to get admission into those colleges where it is more difficult to get admission into”. When we say “more difficult”, we mean the difficulty in terms of competitiveness in a selection process. Broadly, the Engineering Colleges in India can be classified into three categories.
- Colleges / Institutes that enjoy national and international reputation
- Colleges / Institutes that are primarily know in a region of the country
- Colleges that are yet to make a mark in the regional level or national level
How does an Engineering College make its mark at a regional level or national level? Obviously the reputation is created by the quality of work done by the students who pass out of these institutions.
The Indian Institutes of Technology – occupy the top slots in the first category of colleges mentioned above. What separates the Indian Institutes of Technology from the rest of the colleges? Unparalleled training facilities, excellent faculty and to top it all, the opportunity to have “the best of India” as classmates. Anybody who cracks IIT-JEE and gets admission into one of the IITs has perfected his fundamentals and is still willing to work harder.
A study conducted in 2011 found out that 60% of the companies in the Silicon Valley had Indian Engineers as critical resources – and most of them from IITs. If you look around you in the corporate world in India too, you can find many captains of Indian Industry who have honed their skills at these venerable institutions.
Apart from the unparalleled education that one gets at the IIT, there is plenty of opportunity to get involved in co-curricular activities – activities that would challenge all faculties of the individual.
Also since the academic environment is very serious and focused, the question of “what next?” gets addressed early on. Students at IITs decide pretty early on the different career options – whether it is CAT for the MBA route, GRE for the MS route or GATE for the M.Tech route. These are the three most sought after options for further studies. That is if the student is not really keen on the several job offers he is likely to be made ever before completing his course.
All in all a four-year stint at the IITs brings about a world of difference in an individual. Engineers make the world. And Engineers from IITs take a larger than average share of that credit.
So what is IIT JEE? The IIT-JEE is considered the most challenging engineering entrance examination in the world. On the combined parameters of the level of complexity of questions and the number of applicants, the JEE will easily surpass any other similar examination for getting entry into an engineering college for a graduate level programme.
The JEE pattern has undergone many changes. Since 2010, the candidates are given paper copies of their answers, and cut-offs are announced. This transparency was achieved after a tenacious legal tussle waged by IIT Kharagpur professor Rajeev Kumar, who won the National RTI Award 2010 for his crusade.
For current pattern, CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) has announced JEE as a common examination in place of AIEEE and IIT-JEE. JEE (Joint Entrance Examination) is being conducted into two parts, JEE-Main and JEE-Advanced. JEE-Advanced is for admission in Indian Institutes of Technology, and the Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad and JEE-Main exam is to admission in IIITs (Indian Institutes of Information Technology), National Institutes of Technology, CFTIs (Central Funded Technical Institute), etc.
The IITs had earlier declared the cut-off of each subject as “the minimum mark secured by the top 80% of the students in that subject”. With such a condition, the individual cut-offs had little relevance and the aggregate score of Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics dictated the AIR of the student.
JEE Main
For Paper 1 – (B.E/B.Tech courses), it is in both off and online modes.
- Duration: 3 hrs
- Objective type questions with equal weightage to Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics
- Four options with single correct answer
- Negative marking – for each incorrect response, one fourth (1/4) of the total marks allotted to the question would be deducted.No response will mean no deduction of marks
For Paper 2 – (B.Arch/B.Planning),it is in offline mode only.
- Mathematics – Part I – objective questions
- Aptitude Test – Part II – objective questions
- Drawing Test – Part III – to test drawing aptitude
- Duration – 3 Hours
JEE Advanced
Students who qualify JEE-Mains and are among top 20 percentile in their class 12th board examination can appear for JEE-Advanced examination. Approximately 150,00,000 students qualify to appear for JEE-Advanced examination. The All India Ranks (AIRs) for JEE Main 2014 have been declared. Students who obtain All India Ranks (AIRs) and wish to study Architecture or Design need to appear for an Architecture Aptitude Test (AAT) and qualify.
JEE Main counselling
CBSE and CSAB are two different and independent boards. CBSE conducts JEE (Main) examination and publishes the merit list. CSAB only uses the merit list published by CBSE for seat allocation purposes. In previous years the admission process was conducted through CCB (Central Counselling Board), while this year CCB has been renamed as CSAB (Central Seat Allocation Board) for completing the seat allocation process.
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