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IITs may scrap top-20 percentile norm in 2014

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Hyderabad: The controversial top-20 percentile norm for IIT entrance test is likely to be scrapped from 2014.
The rule has resulted in huge variation in 10+2 cut-off marks ,among students of differen

IIT entrance exam: Underprivileged children of 'Super 30' make it big again

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Patna: The underprivileged students of 'Super 30' here have yet again made it big at the IIT entrance examination with 28 out of the total 30 students qualifying. The result of JEE(Advance) was decla

AP bags 4 top-10 JEE ranks

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Hyderabad: Students from the state rewrote history in IIT entrance tests by bagging four of the top-10 ranks in the open category, including the all-India first rank in the first-ever JEE (Advanced)-

IITians seek debate on ‘business’ of higher education

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Chennai: A section of B.Tech and Ph.D students at IIT Madras took out a rally inside the institute on Thursday to protest fees hike and privatisation of education in the country.
Initially students g

IIT course fee hiked to Rs.90,000

New Delhi: The IITs today approved a hike in tuition fee for undergraduate students from Rs 50,000 to Rs 90,000 per year with effect from this year.
HRD Minister M M Pallam Raju said the the Group of

Six Madras IITians bag $150K offer

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Saturday was a day of joy for the faculty and students of IIT Madras as six final-year B.Tech (computer science) students - Aparna Krishnan, Pradeep Kumar, Madhavi Y, Sujith Gokul, Saheel Ram and Niti

Record $1.50K/year salary offer for Madras IITian

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Recruiting companies are offering students of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Madras startlingly high salaries this year.

Samsung Electronics has topped with a salary offer of $1.5 lakh (a

IIT in 12th Plan: Oommen Chandy

The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has given an assurance to the state demand for an IIT would be considered during the 12th Plan.

Chief Minister Oommen Chandy told mediapersons here on Thursday that

No IIT-JEE, AIEEE from 2013

It’s official. There will be no IIT-JEE and AIEEE exams from 2013. Students will have to take the new Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) for admissions to prestigious IITs, NITs, IIITs, deemed universities an

IIT teachers want test put off

Opposing the new format test for admission to the IITs, the All-India IIT Faculty Federation has asked the Centre to defer its implementation by a year in the interests of the students. It contended t

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