IIT JEE Advanced 2013-14 Dates and Exam Structure

Joint Admission Board (JAB) of IIT Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) 2013 has announced the dates for JEE Advanced 2013. The JAB has met on August 27, 2012 at IIT Delhi to discuss the admission procedure for the coming academic year 2013-14. The admission to the undergraduate programmes (B.Tech / B.E) at the IITs and ISMU, Dhanbad for the year 2013-14 will be based on a new two-tier test. Following are details of dates and scheduled of JEE Main and JEE Advanced 2013-14:

1) The first test of the new pattern examination is called the JEE (Main). It will be held during the month of April, 2013 (both offline and online). This examination will be conducted by CBSE.

2) The second test, JEE (Advanced) will be held on June 2, 2013. This will be in offline mode. only. Only 1,50,000 of the top rankers in JEE (Main) will be eligible to appear for JEE Advanced. The top rankers include students from all categories such as General, OBC(NCL), SC and ST.

Here is the question paper pattern of the JEE (Advanced) – 2013. This will have two objective type papers. Each question paper will consist of Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. Duration of each question paper will be 3 hours. Question papers will be given in both English and Hindi.

Admissions to all IITs (Bombay, Bhubaneswar, Delhi, Guwahati, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Kanpur, Indore, Kharagpur, Madras, Patna, Roorkee, Mandi, Rajasthan, Ropar, IT – BHU Varanasi and ISM Dhanbad) will be based only on category wise All India Rank (AIR) in JEE (Advanced). These candidates should have also secured marks of top 20 percentile in their Boards in concerned categories. For more details, see http://jee.iitd.ac.in .

IPWEI Diploma in Railway Engineering Admissions 2012-13

The Institution of Permanent Way Engineers (India), New Delhi has announced notification for admission into the Correspondence Course of Diploma in Railway Engineering for the academic session 2012-13. Duration of the course is one year.

Eligibility for Railway and Non-Railway persons : Applicants must have passed in 10th class or equivalent with maths or science along with minimum three years of experience over Railways or minimum Diploma in any Engineering discipline or Graduation in Science / Engineering or Degree with Maths or Science as one of the compulsory subjects in Intermediate.

Prescribed application form can be obtained from the office of IPWE (India) or at associate office in Baroda House, New Delhi by payment of Rs.100 in cash or after sending Bank Draft of Rs.150 drawn in favour of IPWE (India) and payable at New Delhi. filled in application form along with attested copies of relevant documents should be sent to The Institution of Permanent Way Engineers (India), Room No.G – 11, Rail Bhavan, Raisina Road, New Delhi – 110 001. Last date for the receipt of completed application form is 15th October, 2012. The class will be started from 15th May, 2012.

Applications can also be sent by email : ipwe@rb.railnet.gov.in. For more details contact Ph. No. : 23387915 and 23303272. Railway Ph. No. : 4 – 3272, Fax : 011 23386640, e-mail : ipwe@rb.railnet.gov.in and ipwe@sify.com. Website : www.ipweindia.com.