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CBSE International Informatics Olympiad 2012

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CBSE OlympiadThe Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will conduct an International Informatics Olympiad (IIO) across the country on 3rd November 2012. The Olympiad is aimed at testing the candidate’s skills in logical and critical thinking and problem solving skills. The CBSE is conducting this examination in partnership with Indian Association for Research in Computing Science, Mumbai. Following are details of registrations and examination.

IIO is a two phase examination . Students studying in 8th to 12 classes in CBSE and other Board’s Schools can participate in the event. First phase will be at the zonal level and the exam will be on 3rd November 2012. Duration of the exam is 3 hours.

Those qualified in first stage will be called for second level which will be conducted on 19th January 2013. Pogramming skills of the candidates will be tested after intensive training. Those qualified in this round will be sent for International Olympiad. Applications have to be sent to the concerned examination center. Details of exam centers are available on the website www.cbseacademic.in Registration fee for first phase is Rs.100 .

NEET – PG Exam Structure, Cut Offs and Subject wise Questions 2013

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The first NEET – PG Examinations is going to a tough one as the examination structure and minimum cut off marks are higher than expected. Candidates will have no other option to go through the all subjects. NEET PG 2013 is an all India level entrance examination for admission to MD / MS programmes for the academic year 2013-14. Following are details of NEET – PG 2013 exam structure, subject wise marks analysis and cut off percentiles for various categories.

The NEET – PG 2012 will be a much tougher for the student of Andhra Pradesh as there is huge difference between the syllabus prescribed for previous exam conducted by NTR University of Health Sciences and the present NEET PG exam. NTR University examination emphasized on the final year syllabus. But in NEET PG candidates will have to study all the subjects from 1st to final year of the course.

Exam structure: NEET PG will consist of questions for 240 marks. Out of these questions, Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry will have 20 questions each thus making a total of 60 marks. Marks for other subjects are as follows:
1) Pathology, Microbiology and Pharmacology: 15 marks each
2) Forensic Medicine: 9 marks
3) NPM: 20 marks
4) General Medicine and Surgery: 21 marks for each subject.
5) OBG: 20 marks
6) Pediatrics, Ophthalmology, ENT: 9 marks each
7) Psychiatry, NTD, Orthopedics, Radiology and Anesthesiology: 3 marks each

Cut Offs for various categories:

1) General Category students: 50 percentile
2) SC, ST and OBC candidates: 40 percentile