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The Indian School of Business (ISB) increases scholarships by 55% for the incoming class; a total of rs. 3.3 crores to be awarded as scholarships.

Details:

~ The scholarships will be available for all the students who will be selected for the new Class of 2009.

~ The total scholarship amount represents a significant 55% increase over the scholarships offered to the previous Class.

~ The scholarships are both merit and need based and will be given to outstanding students, selected on the basis of exceptional academic and professional performance, as well as personal qualities such as leadership, integrity, and community service. In an attempt to attract students from various professional, ethnic, and gender backgrounds, several scholarships will be awarded to students who come from small towns in India, women students, and international students.

~ The scholarships include funding from the ISB as well as from private companies who have come forward to support excellence in education. 60% of the scholarships will be awarded by the ISB while the remaining 40% will be awarded by private companies. Companies such as Citigroup, Novartis [Get Quote], Sierra Atlantic, Ambit Finance, and others, will award scholarships to the ISB students

~ The ISB has also entered into special agreements with leading banks such as HDFC Bank [Get Quote], State Bank of India [Get Quote], Andhra Bank [Get Quote], and Punjab National Bank [Get Quote], to provide soft loans to its students. About 95% of ISB students avail of the loan facilities. The ISB students are charged lowered interest rates and are eligible to avail collateral free loans.

Contact:

Ms. Bhuvana Ramalingam
Director - Communications
Indian School of Business
Telephone: 91 40 2 318 7431 E
E-mail: bhuvana_r@isb.edu
Web site: www.isb.edu

Source : rediff.com

Over the years, CAT has kept on bringing new surprises for test takers. We have witnessed several changes in the CAT pattern since its inception.

The greatest example is the sudden change that was brought in the tradition of giving equal number of questions in each section in CAT 2004 together with the change in the internal weightage of the questions.

This was highly surprising for the test takers who had become accustomed to attempting the CAT with questions carrying equal weightage. They never practised on a new CAT pattern until the C-Day in 2004.

Hence it becomes very important to have an overview of the last CATs before sitting for CAT 2007.

The examination experts at TCY have summarised the last 7 CATs in order to study trend. The summary will help us
evaluate our preparation vis- -vis the different types of CAT that happened in the past.

The Following table sums up the "Surprise" factor that has always made CAT a bit difficult to handle, even though the questions in it may not be that difficult.

An overview of the decreasing number of questions in a CAT on one side and increasing time per question on the other since 2000 shows that the trend is for good. The trend can be extrapolated further to predict that CAT 2007 may be a relief for the test takers as regards the total time they will get to solve a question.

However, the attached table also shows that beyond CAT 2003 all the questions do not carry the same weightage. There had been an introduction and subsequent internal changes in the weightage of the questions in CAT 2004, 2005 and 2006.

This makes it important for the test taker to practise choosing the right questions to attempt in the round one and two of his attempt.

The changing levels of difficulty

Looking at the difficulty level column in table prepared by TCY experts, one finds that CAT 2000 was the most difficult of the lot. Hence analyses of the previous CAT patterns as regards the difficulty level of the sections (and for that matter, the complete test) can be done in a scale of 10 by taking CAT 2000 as the most difficult (Scoring 9). Let's just have a brief review of the same.

Hence the bar graph above shows that barring CAT 2000 and 2004 all the CATs stand at 7 on the scale of 10. It is highly recommended to that CAT aspirants that they must have a look over the two most difficult CATs in order to counter the effects of a difficult CAT pattern.

To sum up it is seen that over the period of time, overall CAT difficulty level in terms of the questions have remained more or less same but it is the Surprise factor which is making students nervous and thus adding to the difficulty level of CAT. Therefore, a review of all the previous CAT (especially CAT 2000 and 2004) is vital to give a finishing touch
to your preparation.

Munish Kumar is an examination expert with Top Careers & You. He can be contacted at tcychd@tcyonline.com.

To gain more from the recommendations of TCY experts on changing patterns of CAT, visit ww.tcyonline.com and attend a Web-Seminar in a virtual classroom atmosphere.

Eligibilty Criteria for AIPMT Entrance Examination 2008:

1. He/She has completed age of 17 years at the time of admission or will complete the age on or before 31st December of the year of his/her admission to the 1st year M.B.B.S./DENTAL Course and is an INDIAN NATIONAL.

2. The upper age limit for All India Pre-Medical /Pre-Dental Entrance Examination is 25 years as on 31st December of the year of the entrance examination. Further provided that this upper age limit shall be relaxed by a period of 5 (five) years for the candidates of Scheduled Castes/Schedule Tribes/Other Backward Classes.

3. The number of attempts which a candidate can avail at All India Pre-Medical/Pre-Dental Entrance Examination shall be limited to 3 (three) uniformly for all the candidates.

The candidate must have passed in the subjects of Physics, Chemistry, Biology and English individually and must have obtained a minimum of 50% marks taken together in Physics, Chemistry and Biology at the qualifying examination. In respect of candidates belonging to Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribes or Other Backward Classes the marks obtained in Physics, Chemistry and Biology taken together in qualifying examination be 40% instead of 50% for General Candidates. Those who are taking plus two examination in 2008 can also appear for the entrance test provisionally subject to their fulfilling the conditions later.

April 13, 2008 (Sunday)

09.00 –12.00 hrs Paper – 1
14.00 - 17.00 hrs Paper - 2

Paper – 1 and Paper – 2 will each have three separate sections on Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics. Both the papers will be objective types, designed to test comprehension, reasoning and analytical ability of candidates.

Examination Date : 13th April, 2008

The All India MCA Common Entrance Test (AIMCET) is the entrance examination generally conducted by IIT's for admission to Master of Computer Applications (MCA) Program offered by IIT's and many leading Universities and Colleges.

The All India MCA Common Entrance Test (AIMCET) is a National Level Test being conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee on behalf of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India. This test shall be for those institutions that are presently holding their own entrance test and admitting all their students or a certain percentage of them on all India basis. Students admitted on All India basis in the State level institutions shall be admitted only through the AIMCET. However, all the States shall continue to hold their own common entrance tests for admission to MCA programmes in institutions within their States as before. The objective of conducting the AIMCET on all India basis is to identify meritorious and motivated candidates through a single common entrance test for admission to Master of Computer Applications programmes being run by various institutions in the country. The admission is to be granted by the individual institutes as per policy applicable to them and the score of AIMCET.

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