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Online engineering entrance exam from next year New Delhi, An online entrance exam for engineering aspirants will be held by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in 22 cities next year, an official statement said Tuesday. After the success of pilot project for online exam of the All India Engineering Entrance Exam (AIEEE), the online exam will be held in 22 cities May 7-25, 2012. The regular pen and paper exams will be held at the remaining centres, the human resource development ministry statement said. A concession of Rs.150 to Rs.300 in examination fees will also be given to the students who chose online examination. A mock test software will also be uploaded on CBSE website in December for the purpose of practice by the examinees. The cities where the online tests will be held are Hyderabad, Trivandrum, Noida, Vijaywada, Bhopal, Kolkata, Vishakhapatnam, Mumbai, Allahabad, Chandigarh/ Mohali/ Pachkula, Jalandhar, Bhubaneshwar, Delhi/NCR except Faridabad, Jaipur, Kota, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Nagpur, Bangalore, Dehradun, Eranakulam and Lucknow.

It is Final – ONE All India Entrance Exam for Medical College MBBS The Medical Council of India has finally decided (and Accepted by Health Ministry) that there will be only one common entrance test each for over 30,000 MBBS seats and over 11,000 MD seats in all government and medical colleges in the country, reports the Times of India Earlier (till this year), students wanting to take up courses in medicine had to appear in at least five to six MBBS and MD entrance tests for various colleges and worry about attendant problems like clash of exam dates as well as travel to distant places for counselling for allotment of seats. But from 2011, there will be just one entrance test each for MBBS and MD courses offered by all 271 medical colleges, 138 government-run and 133 under private management. These colleges together offer over 31,000 seats for MBBS courses and another 11,000 for PG. The confusion caused by multiple entrance tests and counselling saw hundreds of students rush to the Supreme Court every year complaining about the system where they were left high and dry even for making a single mistake in their choices. In response to a petition filed by Simran Jain through advocate A D N Rao had sought a direction from the Supreme court to Medical Council of India (MCI) and the Centre for a single window system for admissions. During hearing of the petition before a Bench comprising Justices R V Raveendran and H L Gokhale, the decision for one common entrance test was conveyed by MCI counsel and senior advocate Amarendra Saran. Additional solicitor general P P Malhotra said the government had accepted MCI’s suggestion to amend the regulation concerning admissions to medical colleges. The state of affairs of private medical colleges and their admission process had come for some serious scrutiny in the apex court, which said last year, “Every year, this is happening. We know how these tricks are played on students every year.” Read Complete News in Times of India Related News: One Entrance Exam for Engineering and Medical Admissions across India Medical Council of India (MCI) proposes All India Entrance Test for MBBS Admission

GPAT 2012 for M.Pharma Admissions on 6th May, 2012 The important dates for GPAT-2012 Examination are as follows: Website Opens (for Online Registration): Saturday, 14.01.2012 Website Closes (for Online Registration): Monday, 20.02.2012 Last date for receiving of copy of Bank Challan as proof of payment for examination fee and Print out of the application form: Monday, 27.02.2012 Date of Examination: Sunday, 06.05.2012 Date of Declaration of Result: Thursday, 31.05.2012 GPAT 2012 The scores in graduate aptitude test for engineers (GATE) have been in use till that year 2012 for admission in Master’s programme in Pharmacy (M.Pharma) and also for awarding fellowships/scholarships to Pharmacy graduate along with engineering graduates. The organizing committee for GATE has expressed its inability to include pharmacy graduates in GATE with effect from the year 2012, owing to operational problems due to large number of candidates appearing for GATE examination. GPAT 2012 being organised by M.S. University of Baroda Therefore, in order to facilitate admission of Pharmacy graduates in M.Pharma as also to award fellowships/scholarships to Pharmacy graduates, AICTE has decided to organize to conduct an examination in the name of Graduate Pharmacy Aptitude Test (GPAT) with effect from academic year 2010-11. Accordingly, a National Monitoring Committee (NMC) was constituted for monitoring the issues pertaining to the policy as well as conduct of GPAT. NMC, constituted by AICTE has recommended for conduct of 1st GPAT i.e. GPAT-2012 by the M.S. university of Baroda, Vadodara-390002, which has agreed to conduct the examination on May 06, 2011 throughout the country. Candidates willing to appear in GPAT-2012 may obtain application form along with information brochure from either the office of coordinator GPAT-2012, the M.S. university of Baroda, Vadodara-390002 or from the designated branches of Bank of Baroda, whose information may be obtained from the website of GPAT-2010 at URL http://www.gpat.in, http://www.msubaroda.ac.in ELIGIBILITY FOR GPAT 2012 Persons holding Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy (4 years after 10+2) or appearing in the Final year examination of B. Pharmacy (4 years after 10+2) in the year 2012 only are eligible for appearing for GPAT-2012 examination. GPAT 2012 The important dates for GPAT-2012 are as follows The important dates for GPAT-2012 Examination are as follows: Website Opens (for Online Registration): Saturday, 14.01.2012 Website Closes (for Online Registration): Monday, 20.02.2012 Last date for receiving of copy of Bank Challan as proof of payment for examination fee and Print out of the application form: Monday, 27.02.2012 Date of Examination: Sunday, 06.05.2012 HOW TO APPLY The application of GPAT-2012 examination can be filled Only Online from the above mentioned websites. GPAT Exam Structure The GPAT-2012 examination will consist of a single paper of 3 hours duration containing 100 questions carrying a maximum of 100 marks. The question paper will consist of only multiple choice objective-type questions. Each question will have four choices for the answer. The candidates will have to mark the correct choice on an Optical Response Sheet (ORS) by darkening the appropriate bubble against each question. There will be negative marking for each wrong answer that is 1/3 (one-third) mark will be deducted. GPAT Examination: Examination will be similar to that of GATE 2009 Examination, where the candidate will mark the correct answer out of four options in an Optical Response Sheet (ORS) by darkening the appropriate bubble. GPAT SYLLABUS a) GPAT 2012 result will be announced on Thursday, 31.05.2012 at GPAT office. The result will also be available on the website, as listed in Section 1.6. b) GPAT 2012 score is valid for ONE YEAR from the date of announcement of the result. c) The machine-gradable Optical Response Sheets (ORS) are graded and scrutinized with extreme care. There is no provision for regrading or retotalling. No photocopies of the machine-gradable Optical Response Sheets (ORS) will be made available. No correspondence in this regard will be entertained.

AIMA MAT on Dec 4; Test pattern, participating B-schools & do's & don'ts The MBA entrance exam which is scheduled next week is MAT December 2011. MAT or the Management Aptitude Test is held in both paper pencil as well as computer based test. The paper pencil based test will be held on this Sunday, December 4, 2011. The computer based test will be held on Saturday, December 10, 2011 onwards. Now that there are just five days left for the exam, MBAUniverse.com brings to you a recap of the exam pattern and the information related to the exam which you must know before taking the test. The pattern of MAT exam is pretty stable. The exam pattern doesn’t undergo random changes, which is a boon for you as you can be well prepared to take the exam. There are 200 questions in the MAT exam. The number of sections is five. The duration of the exam is 150 minutes, which is 2.5 hours. Each question has one mark. There is a negative marking scheme of 0.25 marks for each wrong answer. The overall difficulty level of the exam ranges from easy to moderate. The sections of the MAT exam are Language Comprehension, Mathematical Skills, Data Analysis & Sufficiency, Intelligence and Critical Reasoning and Indian and Global Environment. Each section has 40 questions. The consolidated score is calculated on the basis of four sections only, which are Language Comprehension, Mathematical Skills, Data Analysis & Sufficiency and Intelligence and Critical Reasoning. Indian and Global Environment is not the part of the consolidated score. Hence, the scoring is done out of a maximum possible score of 160 marks. However, the score card by AIMA does not give the net marks. It gives the scaled score and the percentile in each and every section. It also gives the overall composite score (out of 800) and the overall percentile. The scores of MAT December 2011 will be accepted by 378 B-schools across India for the academic year 2012-14. You will have to apply to these institutes separately. The exam will be held in 69 cities where 67 centers are in India and two centers are abroad. The two international centers are Dubai and Singapore. But not all centers in India are hosting the exam in the computer based format. The cities which offer the test in both paper pencil and computer based formats are Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Cochin, Bhopal, Mumbai, Jaipur, Chennai, Lucknow, Noida and Kolkata. The Admit Cards have to be downloaded from the AIMA website for the MAT December 2011. The download process has started from Saturday, November 26, 2011 onwards. AIMA mentions, “Candidates accessing the website the earliest can choose the Date and Time of his or her choice subject to availability. Those who have not opted the date and time slot for four to five days; will be automatically allotted date and time slot by the system. No request for change of date and time slot can be entertained.”

Dear students, parents, and educators

Education today is not limited to mere qualification. It brings with it a choice; a choice to step outside the confines of the four walls of a classroom and one's limited vision of the black board. George Seville, Marquis of Halifax rightly opined, "Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught." Education thus brings with it new people of various cultures. It gives one an option to grow amongst the multitude of ways of life, thoughts, perceptions and experiences. It thus teaches one how to live a life of fulfillment first hand.

To succeed in this mission of ours, we have with us a team of well-trained counselors who have rich experience and thorough understanding of the admission and application procedures. Our counselors provide personalized attention to the students throughout the procedure.

As your child's mentor we shall be working regularly through a one-on-one custom-designed counseling program specifically geared towards enhancing your child's strengths, addressing your child's weaknesses and increasing your child's confidence. We shall be available at any mutually convenient time in order to provide you with meaningful feedback on your child's progress.

We look forward to welcoming you.

With best wishes

Navin Harjwani
Managing Director
Education Cell
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