10 lakh to take engg entrance test

10 lakh to take engg entrance test
Bangalore:
With butterflies in their stomachs, about 10 lakh students across the country are gearing up to enter the 20 elite National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and other premier government engineering colleges in the country.


They will appear for the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) on Sunday. Of the 20,000 candidates from Karnataka, 10,000 will take the test at 18 examination centres in Bangalore.

The gruelling test will be for the 18,000-odd engineering seats that include 9,300 in the 20 NITs. As many as eight lakh candidates appeared for the entrance examination in 2008.

Conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), the AIEEE is the common admission test for all government engineering institutes for 32 engineering and four Architecture and Town Planning courses at the NITs.

Examination

The examination has two segments for BE, B Tech, B Arch and B Planning. The first paper comprises three parts on physics, chemistry and mathematics of equal weightage with objective type questions for BE and B Tech courses. The second paper covers mathematics, aptitude test and drawing for B Architecture and B Planning.
The aptitude test in the second paper has been designed to evaluate the candidate’s perception, imagination, observation, creativity and architectural awareness.

The examination features objective type questions with multiple-choice answer options having a single correct answer. For each incorrect response, one-fourth of the total marks allotted to the question would be deducted. There will be no deduction of marks for unanswered questions, from the total score.

However, more than one answer indicated against a question will be deemed as incorrect and will be negatively marked.

Students may avoid answering questions which they are not sure of.

Special sheets

All objective type questions are required to be answered on specially designed machine gradable answer sheets. Answers are to be marked using only black or blue-inked ball point pens. The AIEEE Paper I examination for BE and B Tech will begin at 9.30 am while Paper II for B Arch and B Planning will begin at 2 pm on Sunday.
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