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AIEEE
INFORMATION AND UPDATES ABOUT AIEEE
The All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) conducted by the CBSE was first held in 2002. Since then the AIEEE has gained wide acceptance among participating institutions and students, as can be clearly understood from the growth in the number of both institutes and candidates over the last few years. This is currently the largest engineering entrance examination in India. In 2009, more than 10 lakh students applied for this examination.
AIEEE is the entrance examination for admission to the 32 Engineering Disciplines and 4 Courses in Architecture and Town Planning at the National Institutes of Technology as well as to Engineering and Technology streams at other participating institutes and deemed universities. The total number of seats on open to candidates of AIEEE 2009 at the NITs, deemed universities and other participating institutions was more than 24000. The famous Delhi College of Engineering – reccently accorded University status and now known as Delhi Technological University has announced that admissions from the 2010 season will be through the AIEEE. This is one more example of a prestigious institution joining the AIEEE.
The biggest contribution of the AIEEE to the engineering entrance exam scenario is that it has been able to raise aspirations in a large number of school students across India. Prior to the establishment of the AIEEE, the admissions into the erstwhile Regional Engineering Colleges (now renamed as National Institutes of Technology) used to be through the local state level entrance examinations. The aspiring students did now appear for a national level competitive entrance exam. Also, with the abolishing of the separate state level quotas for 50% of the seats in an NIT, the competition has truly turned national. What this has initiated is better preparedness and more participation, even in the more competitive IIT-JEE. All these developments can be viewed as good signs, as better prepared students prove to be better engineers four years later.
In 2008, the AIEEE was of a single paper of three hours duration, consisting of 35 questions each in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics.The 2009 AIEEE consisted of 90 questions – 30 each in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics.
AIEEE 2010 will be conducted on Sunday, 25th April. Most of the students appearing for AIEEE 2010 would also be appearing for their 12th Std Board Examination some weeks prior to this examination. From that perspective, let’s look at how you can put your best foot forward on the D Day.
Please click on the following link to know more about the pattern of the AIEEE examinations over the last few years:
http://www.time4education.com/testpatterns1.asp?cid=3
You face a dual challenge - preparing for the AIEEE and your Board Examinations. Remember, when you spend time revising a topic, the revision will hold good for all types of examinations that you are preparing for. Conceptual understanding remains the same, whether for Board Examinations or Entrance Examinations. Learning Concepts is one stage and, ideally, you would have passed through that “knowledge adding phase” by now. Application of knowledge is a key. You can do that during revision, but the real application will have to be done under test conditions – where you are forced to answer question after question, make choices between attempting or not attempting, make decisions regarding the time you will spend on a question based on your comfort level, or regarding spending more than average time on a subject area of your liking where you are confident that you can maximise your score etc. Enroll for a series of model examinations and take them under conditions similar to those of the actual exam.
Click on the following link for an idea of the content you would have access to, in our course:
http://time4education.com/what-time-offers-aieee.asp
The actual questions in the AIEEE may not, and probably will not, be repetitions. But for a serious student, it will be a valuable experience to go through the actual question papers of previous years AIEEE examinations. Don’t just attempt these papers – carry out your own analysis of the papers, as well. Then compare it with the high quality analysis provided by our team of experts. You will find these analyses in the link provided earlier on this page. Many students cause the proverbial slip between the cup and the lip by overestimating the competition - not the size of the competition, but the levels of competition - in such a large examination. Because the AIEEE is the largest engineering entrance examination in India, it will also have the largest population in any band of the ‘bell’ in the distribution curve. Students should realize that any incremental performance will get them ahead of many more students in this examination than in any other.
You should definitely have a strategy for moving up from where you currently are (in terms of academic preparation) to where you want to be. This will require clear understanding of the level of performance you need to achieve on the day of the actual examination. For this, you will need to know what the trend has been in previous years. 92% secured All India Rank 1 in AIEEE 2009. 70% secured the 1000th rank, and 60% secured the 5000th rank. This indicates what you should aim at taking the actual exam in 2010 - by selecting the questions you will be able to answer and leaving those which you are afraid will give you negative scores. You will need to evaluate your performance in each model test on this basis. Given the large number of students who are taking the exam, each correct answer or each wrong answer can make a big difference in your All India ranking.
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