Friday, March 22, 2013

UPSC allowed regional languages in Civil Services main Exam


Good news for civil services who wants to write civil services main exam in regional language. Now with the new amendments aspirants will be able to civil services main exam in chosen regional language. Now aspirants can also chose literature of any of the 22 language list in 8th schedule and English as optional paper even if they have not studied the same in college level. Minimum qualification to appear for UPSC Civil Services Main Exam is qualified in Civil Services Preliminary Exam.

Under the new pattern the marks obtained in English will not be counted for preparing final merit list for service selection of IAS, IPS, IFS, IRS etc. The maximum marks for essay paper increased to 250. (Earlier essay paper was given 200 marks maximum). The Civil Services Main Exam will now be of 1750 marks, which should be distributed as Four papers of General Studies – 1000 Marks, two papers of an optional subject 500 marks and essay paper 250 marks. As per the amendment, the English component (of 100 marks ) from the essay paper will also be dropped and the two qualifying papers of 300 marks each in any modern Indian language and in English — as in previous years — will be restored.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR)

My Salutation to this temple of learning ~ Hats Off!!!

What started as Thomson College of Engineering in 1847, now turned into IIT – Indian Institute of Technology in 2001 under IIT Act of Government of India… In mid years the IIT Roorkee was University of Roorkee since 1949 and celebrated its 150 years of establishment in 1996-97. The University of Roorkee carried the honor of First Technical University of India with great responsibilities, better education and excellence in research. During the days when there was only 5 IITs conducting JEE for graduate admission, the University of Roorkee was notable for Roorkee Entrance Examination for BE Degree courses.


The IIT Roorkee conducts study programs in various study disciplines like humanities, sciences, technology, business education, engineering mathematics and computing etc at under graduate and post graduate level. The IIT Roorkee has 3 campuses; main campus is based in Roorkee, near Hardwar; Uttarakhand; a distance campus at Saharanpur where offered Pulp & Paper Technology Program and another at Knowledge, Greater Noida, here various short term courses are offered besides other academic and research activities.

IISc Entrance Test 2013 for Research Program

The entrance examination for admission into research courses of IISc Bangalore will be held on 28 April, 2013; Sunday. The examination will be of 3 hour duration. The exam timing is 9 AM to 12 Noon.

The following subjects are offered in IISc Research Entrance Test 2013


  • Biological Sciences
  • Chemistry
  • Ecological Sciences
  • Materials Science
The candidates who will chose ecological science i.e. ES will be considered for Interview for Center for Ecological Science only.

IISc Research Entrance Test Centers 2013

The examination will be held in following cities 

Ahmedabad
LD College of Engg, Near Gujarat University, Navarangpura,
Ahmedabad-15

Bangalore
IISc, Central Lecture Hall Complex, Bangalore-12

Bhopal
C.R.Institute of Management, UTD, Barkatullah University, Hoshangabad Road, Bhopal-26

Bhubaneshwar
College of Agricultural Engg & Tech,Orissa Univ.of Agr.& Tech,
Bhubaneshwar-3

Chandigarh  
University Institute of Applied Management Sciences, South Campus, Sector-25, Panjab University, Chandigarh-14

Chennai
IIT, Sardar Patel Road, Chennai-36

Delhi
IIT, Hauz Khas, New Delhi-16

Guwahati
IIT, North Guwahati, Guwahati-39

Hyderabad
Nizam College, Opp Lalbahadur Stadium,  Basheerbagh, Hyderabad –1

Kanpur
IIT, Kanpur, Kanpur – 16

Kolkata
University of Calcutta, College Street Campus, 87/1 College Street, Kolkata - 73

Mumbai
IIT, Powai, Mumbai-76

Pune
Department of Chemistry, University of Pune, Ganeshkhind, Pune-7

Thiruvananthapuram
College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram-16

Varanasi
Dept. of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-5

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