Smaller than Life
Why a blog? Simple. Cacoethes Scribendi -- the urge to write! My literary pretensions and caprices bring me here. Like any writer I write to be read. All my posts, though fettered to my small world and trivially myopic, will live and yearn that somebody connects to them someday. Cognitive frenzies, sardonic musings, aimless banters, incoherent ramblings and trivial indulgences; this is simply an episodic narrative of my trivial world -- in a grain of sand… Smaller than Life.

Graffiti

When I am dead,
I hope it is said,
'His sins were scarlet,
but his books were read'.

- Hillaire Belloc

This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me, --
The simple news that Nature told
With tender majesty.

Her message is committed
To hands I cannot see;
For love of her, sweet countrymen,
Judge tenderly of me!

- Emily Dickinson

The thoughts of our past years
          in me doth breed
Perpetual benediction

- William Wordsworth

Sunday, December 19, 2004
 
BITSAT is born!

BITS, Pilani has done me proud. The announcement it has (finally) made has made me stop studying for my finals and put up a blog post! The press release, from the BITS, Pilani website:


BITS, Pilani announces a unique and pioneering method of Computer based Online test for admissions

December 15, 2004:

Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani is a highly reputed technological university in India. It is an All-India institute and all admissions are made purely on merit. From the year 2005, BITS Pilani will make its admissions to the integrated first degree programmes, both at Pilani campus and Goa campus, through an innovative and path-breaking ‘computer based online’ test.

BITS, Pilani is a deemed university since 1964 and it runs degree programmes at all levels in Engineering, Sciences, Management and Pharmacy. BITS has a modular and flexible educational structure which allows students to do two degrees simultaneously under its dual degree scheme. It has institutionalized linkages with several industries and all its programmes have a Practice School component through which students spend considerable time in industries doing projects, under the supervision of its faculty, before they graduate. BITS has produced many distinguished alumni who are occupying high positions all over the world. As an example, the latest issue of Time magazine has listed 25 most influential business persons of which two are Indians namely, Vivek Paul and Balaji Krishnamurthy, and both are BITS alumni.

At the first degree level, with 10+2 input, it runs degree programmes leading to degrees: B.E. (Hons.) in Engineering disciplines, Integrated M.Sc.(Hons.) and M.Sc.(Tech.) programmes in Sciences and Technology, Master of Management studies (M.M.S.), and B.Pharm.(Hons.) in Pharmacy. For all these programmes, for the past 30 years, the Institute was making admissions only through the marks obtained in 10+2 examinations standardized through a normalization procedure. It does not have any quota like state quota, management quota, NRI quota etc.

Since 2002, there was a demand by the Government of India to abandon this process of admission and join the government conducted entrance examination. The Institute suggested even in 2002 that a viable alternative would be a computer based online entrance examination giving flexibilities to the students in terms of choice of centers, date and time. As a matter of fact, even the National Education Policy 1986 suggested establishment of a National Testing Service. The expert committee and also the government felt that such a procedure will be useful and innovative. BITS made all the preparations and the groundwork.

On 4th October 2004, the Government issued a circular informing that Deemed universities can make their admissions through their own test which has given freedom to Institutes like BITS, Pilani to have some innovative method. BITS is happy to announce that from 2005 all admissions to the integrated first degree programmes of BITS, Pilani, both at Pilani campus and Goa campus, will be made through a computer based online test. These tests will be conducted during April-June at several centers in India.

Since the earlier method of BITS gave an opportunity to automatically have a large number of Board toppers joining the Institute, it will continue to give direct admission to first rank students from the different central/state boards.

While all admissions would be based on the scores obtained by the students in the computer based online test, the minimum qualification for admission would be a pass in 12th year examination with at least 80% aggregate marks in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics subjects with at least 60% in each of Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics subjects.

The salient features of the computer based online test, which will be called as BITSAT-2005, are:

  • The candidate sits in front of a computer and the questions are presented on the monitor and the candidate submits his answers through the use of key board or mouse. The computer is connected to the server, which delivers the test, in real time through a reliable connectivity.
  • The online test will be conducted at several centers in India, during 10th April – 20th June 2005.
  • Candidate can choose the center, the date and time for the test, as per his/her convenience.
  • The score is made available to the candidate immediately after the test and thus is designed to be transparent.
  • The test will have Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, English Proficiency and Logical reasoning parts and is of 3 hours duration. All questions are of objective type (multiple choice questions) and based on NCERT syllabus.
  • The test is so designed that it doesn't require the candidate to have any special computer skill. Further, a sample test will be made available to the registered candidates after 1st February 2005 at the BITS Website on which he/she can practice as many times as desired.
  • The questions will be selected at random from a large question bank. Different candidates will get different question sets, but of same difficulty level and content.
  • Uses latest technologies for security and test delivery.
This innovative proposal requires large investment and the BITS management and its Chancellor, Dr K K Birla have approved the project and have agreed for the investment. It is hoped that this pioneering ‘first-of-its-kind’ effort will be appreciated by all the educationists, students and their parents and will go a long way in solving many of the long standing issues in the matter of admissions to universities.

A formal advertisement will be issued around 18th December 2004. The last date for applying for the test is 31st January 2005.

The BITS website http://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/BITSAT/ will provide all the relevant information.

- posted by Dileepan @ 4:24:00 pm
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It is not matter of BITSAT. See the no. of faculties in BITS and its degradation from view of Good Faculties. Very poor facilities for faculties and do not think, students will get very good academician at BITS in the coming days....It is very good from outside. But inside things are empty. Even if anyone can be assigned to teach anything in BITS...Even if with Philosophy Ph.D, faculties are taken for Management. Not a single faculties in BITS with Ph.D. in Comp. Sc. ohhh GOD...SAVE BITS...

- posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 11:18 am  

Get BITSAT Statistics on Govt Vacancy website.

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