Education Healines 7th July, 2010

Common Entrance Test For PMT, AIEEE

The Union Minister for Human Resource Development (HRD) Mr. Kapil Sibal announced that the Ministry is thinking on the lines of merging the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) conducted Pre Medical Test (PMT) and the All India Engineering Entrance Exam (AIEEE), which will lessen the burden for students to apprear in two exams separately. “While Physics and Chemistry will be common for both, the medical student can answer only the Biology paper and the engineering students the Maths paper.”--Mr. Sibal, who also suggested that he is also planning to set up a National Institute for Assessment and Evaluation for the school systems in the country and their syllabi.



Source: 19th June, 2010, IGNOU Papers      Compiled by www.shiksha.com

80% Marks Not Enough To Secure A Seat In BMM, BMS Courses

If you have scored merely 80% marks in your 10+2 exams, these are not enough for you to secure a seat in professional degree courses like Bachelor of Mass Communication or Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS) in Mumbai’s elite colleges. All these colleges showed a marginal dip in the second cut-off list, especially in self-financing courses. Most of the colleges are expecting to get all the seats occupied in second cut-off itself. The cut-offs are still high, 90-85% in sought after colleges. Exceptions were seen in conventional BA or BSc courses, where cut-offs had come down by 10-15% in a few colleges.



Source:14th June, 2010, DNA India      Compiled by www.shiksha.com