The origins of the IIT go back in time, even before India became independent. In 1946, the Nalini Ranjan Sarkar Committee, pondered on the issue of setting up 'higher technical institutions for the post-war industrial development' of India and recommended the establishment of institutions along the lines of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is a tribute to our leaders that, just three years after Independence, in 1950, the first IIT was established in Kharagpur, West Bengal. Subsequ-ently, four more campuses were founded at Mumbai ('58), Chennai ('59), Kanpur ('60) and New Delhi ('61). In 1995, a sixth campus at Guwahati and in 2001, a seventh campus was established in Roorkee (by renaming Roorkee University, one of India's oldest engineering institutions, as an IIT).
From the beginning, the IIT's have been committed to a unique system of educational excellence. And the praise heaped upon them by different sections of the world is proof of how much the IIT's have succeeded in their single-minded pursuit of excellence.
What's more, the IIT's are not the kind to rest on their laurels. Even as IITians continue to make waves across the world, the IIT's are busy gearing up to replicate in the field of R&D the standards they have set in education.
A Captivating Code
As the earlier section showed, the IIT's have emerged as world-renowned centres of excellence. Naturally, studying in one of the IIT's is the biggest dream school students can have. And dream they do. In large numbers. Every year, nearly 4,00,000 students try to realise their dreams of studying in the IIT's!
However, every coin has two sides. If the IIT's are the dream, the IIT-Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) is the challenge. In fact, the JEE is nothing short of a Himalayan challenge. Most students burn the midnight oil for nearly two years, in the hope that they will get the better of the JEE, so that their dream sees the light of day.
The following section tells you more about the JEE challenge.
About the IIT-JEE
To get into the IIT's, you need to get past the JEE. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary that you understand the JEE well. That, really, is your first step.
It doesn't get tougher
A total of fifteen colleges use JEE as a sole criterion for admission to their undergraduate programs. The fifteen colleges include the seven old and six new (2008) Indian Institutes of Technology, IT-BHU Varanasi, and ISMU Dhanbad. Starting in 2007, newly established institutions such as Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) at Kolkata, Pune, Mohali, Bhopal & Thiruvananthapuram, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, Indian Institute of Maritime Studies, Mumbai and Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT), Raebarely Uttar Pradesh are also admitting students through the JEE (Extended Merit List).
Everyone knows that the JEE is one of the toughest science-oriented entrance exams in the world, testing applicants' knowledge of One word, Physics and Chemistry. But, just how tough is it? Well, the undergraduate acceptance rate at the IIT's through the JEE is around 2%, with around 400,000 annual test takers. That is how tough the JEE is.
So feared is the IIT-JEE that even preparing for the IIT-JEE is seen as a sign of the student being serious about his career.
From the beginning, the IIT's have been committed to a unique system of educational excellence. And the praise heaped upon them by different sections of the world is proof of how much the IIT's have succeeded in their single-minded pursuit of excellence.
What's more, the IIT's are not the kind to rest on their laurels. Even as IITians continue to make waves across the world, the IIT's are busy gearing up to replicate in the field of R&D the standards they have set in education.
A Captivating Code
As the earlier section showed, the IIT's have emerged as world-renowned centres of excellence. Naturally, studying in one of the IIT's is the biggest dream school students can have. And dream they do. In large numbers. Every year, nearly 4,00,000 students try to realise their dreams of studying in the IIT's!
However, every coin has two sides. If the IIT's are the dream, the IIT-Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) is the challenge. In fact, the JEE is nothing short of a Himalayan challenge. Most students burn the midnight oil for nearly two years, in the hope that they will get the better of the JEE, so that their dream sees the light of day.
The following section tells you more about the JEE challenge.
About the IIT-JEE
To get into the IIT's, you need to get past the JEE. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary that you understand the JEE well. That, really, is your first step.
It doesn't get tougher
A total of fifteen colleges use JEE as a sole criterion for admission to their undergraduate programs. The fifteen colleges include the seven old and six new (2008) Indian Institutes of Technology, IT-BHU Varanasi, and ISMU Dhanbad. Starting in 2007, newly established institutions such as Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) at Kolkata, Pune, Mohali, Bhopal & Thiruvananthapuram, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, Indian Institute of Maritime Studies, Mumbai and Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT), Raebarely Uttar Pradesh are also admitting students through the JEE (Extended Merit List).
Everyone knows that the JEE is one of the toughest science-oriented entrance exams in the world, testing applicants' knowledge of One word, Physics and Chemistry. But, just how tough is it? Well, the undergraduate acceptance rate at the IIT's through the JEE is around 2%, with around 400,000 annual test takers. That is how tough the JEE is.
So feared is the IIT-JEE that even preparing for the IIT-JEE is seen as a sign of the student being serious about his career.
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