Career

Indian IT industry has become very competitive. Supply of computer professionals is higher in comparison to demand. If you want to have a good and meaningful Software Engineer career then you must plan your education upto B.Tech CSE/IT or M.Sc IT or MCA. You may not able to make good Software Engineering career with few certificate courses. I will advice against doing only courses to become Software engineer.

Let him please choose whatever he is interested in dont coax anything on him otherwise later on he may go haywire and end up doing nothing

There will be separate ranking system for each categories such as OBC, SC/CT,General etc.To claim these reservation, you should submit community / caste certificate along with application

You didnt mentioned your profession, weather you are student or working , your timings etc.so its hard to help you in preparing time table.But I would like to share one important message that early morning especially 5.30-7 AM is the best time for study. This is the time when our positive energy and mind is in peak. So we can store many things in our mind easily.
After sun set, our body may be week need relaxation. So try to follow this, I am sure you will find the difference
all the Best

both are in different in their own respect I want to go for teaching or research you may go for b.sc and if computer line then BCA