Ministry of Human Resources Development, Govt. of India has issued Gazette notification providing 4.5 reservations for minority communities within the OBC quota of 27 percent. With this minority communities such as Muslims, Sikhs, Parsis, Jains, Buddhists etc will get 4.5 percent reservations in educational institutions and government employment opportunities. The gazette will come into force from 1st January 2012.

After this provision, seats in all India level institutions for Minority candidates will be reserved as per the stipulated percentage. The number of seats they are going to get are as follows. The number of seats may increase if the total intake has gone up at any time:

1) IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology): 120 seats
2) IIMs (Indian Institutes of Management)
3) NITs (National Institutions of Technology): 4.5 percent of total quota reserved for OBCs
4) 40 Central Universities: 4.5 percent seats in 27 percent reserved for OBCc
5) National Institute of Design (NID): 4.5 percent within allotted 27 percent seats for OBCs.

The Government of India has allowed educational institutions to implement OBC reservation quota within five years after the notification. This five year term will end by the next year (2012) and all the institutions will have to implement the quota as per the rules of the law.

BITSAT, an online computer based test conducted by Birla Institute oif Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani is the highly reputed and popular engineering entrance examination in the country. Thousands of 10+2 and Intermediate students appear for BITSAT every year to check their fortunes. BITS has campuses at Pilani, Goa and Hyderabad apart from Offshore center at Dubai. BITS released cut-offs of BITSAT scores for admissions to I Semester 2011-12 to different programmes in all the campuses. Candidates should note that the cut-off scores for each programme at all centers vary from year to year. These are for the basic understanding of the BITSAT cut off trends and to draw estimations for the present year:

Cut-off BITSAT-2011 score for Degree programme at Pilani Campus:

1. B.E.(Hons.): Chemical – 307
2. B.E.(Hons.): Civil – 306
3. B.E.(Hons.): Electrical and Electronics – 336
4. B.E.(Hons.): Mechanical – 327
5. B.E.(Hons.): Manufacturing – 300
6. B.Pharm. (Hons.) – 227
7. B.E.(Hons.): Computer Science – 342
8. B.E.(Hons.): Electronics and Instrumentation – 325
9. M.Sc.(Hons.): Biological Sciences – 275
10. M.Sc.(Hons.): Chemistry – 286
11. M.Sc.(Hons.): Economics – 302
12. M.Sc.(Hons.): Mathematics – 293
13. M.Sc.(Hons.): Physics – 297
14. M.Sc.(Tech.): Finance – 272
15. M.Sc.(Tech.): Information Systems – 282

BITSAT-2011 Cut-off score for Degree programme at Goa Campus :

1) B.E.(Hons.): Chemical – 273
2) B.E.(Hons.): Electrical and Electronics – 294
3) B.E.(Hons.): Mechanical – 291
4) B.E.(Hons.): Computer Science – 303
5) B.E.(Hons.): Electronics and Instrumentation – 284
6) M.Sc.(Hons.): Biological Sciences – 236
7) M.Sc.(Hons.): Chemistry – 253
8) M.Sc.(Hons.): Economics – 270
9) M.Sc.(Hons.): Mathematics – 262
10) M.Sc.(Hons.): Physics – 273
11) M.Sc.(Tech.): Information Systems – 256

BITSAT-2011 Cut-off score for Degree programme at Hyderabad Campus :

1) B.E.(Hons.): Chemical – 273
2) B.E.(Hons.): Civil – 280
3) B.E.(Hons.): Electrical and Electronics – 288
4) B.E.(Hons.): Mechanical – 285
5) B.E.(Hons.): Computer Science – 294
6) B.E.(Hons.): Electronics and Communication – 302
7) B.Pharm.(Hons.) – 211
8) M.Sc.(Hons.): Biological Sciences- 231
9) M.Sc.(Hons.): Chemistry – 252
10) M.Sc.(Hons.): Economics – 261
11) M.Sc.(Hons.): Mathematics- 257
12) M.Sc.(Hons.): Physics- 269
13) M.Sc.(Tech.): Information Systems – 256