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IIT Bombay Research Internship Awards 2012-13

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Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), is offering Research Internship Awards for specific research projects for the academic year 2012 – 13. Duration of Internship is 4 to 6 months. Applicants should be in second year of Post Graduation or third / fourth year of a Graduation program. Candidates will be able to work full – time for the Internship. Selected candidates will get stipend of Rs. 10,000 per month.

The selection process will consist of Test / Interview. Interested and eligible candidates can apply online through weblink : http://www.ircc.iitb.ac.in/IRCC-Webpage/rnd/HRMSLoginPage.jsp. Last date for the submission of online application form is 5th October, 2012. Dates of Interview is 29th October to 9th November, 2012.

The IIT Bombay internships will give value to the career of the students. Candidates who want to pursue career in science research will have great advantage through this internship. They will have an opportunity to work along with reputed scientists at the institute.

Important Dates:

1. Last date for the submission of application forms: October 5, 2012
2. Tentative dates for interview: October 29, 2012 – November 9, 2012
3. Duration of Internship: 4-6 months (Between December 2012 and June 2013)

IIT JEE Advanced 2013-14 Dates and Exam Structure

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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 .