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Re: The IIT Entrance Exam

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Post by sac2171 » Thu, Jun 27, 2013, 11:12 PM UTC

tharshan09 wrote: post #4

What a lot people may not know is that these universities release many of their lectures online on youtube. I have watched some in the past to catch up with missing notes and it was helpful. Edit -- Link - http://www.youtube.com/iit

Could you provide a link?

Re: The IIT Entrance Exam

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Post by pitchups » Thu, Jun 27, 2013, 11:13 PM UTC

akavi wrote: post #2

I'm unreasonably pleased that I was able to answer both the example questions.

I sometimes wonder if I could pass the IIT JEE, were I taking them today :)

Re: The IIT Entrance Exam

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Post by pitchups » Thu, Jun 27, 2013, 11:15 PM UTC

sac2171 wrote: post #11

tharshan09 wrote: post #4

What a lot people may not know is that these universities release many of their lectures online on youtube. I have watched some in the past to catch up with missing notes and it was helpful. Edit -- Link - http://www.youtube.com/iit

Could you provide a link?

http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/

Re: The IIT Entrance Exam

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Post by steven777400 » Thu, Jun 27, 2013, 11:15 PM UTC

akavi wrote: post #2

I'm unreasonably pleased that I was able to answer both the example questions.

Very nice. I can say that I understood the questions, but without consulting external resources, was not able to solve either. (It's been a long time since I've done chemistry, and factoring/roots was always a weakness for me)

Re: The IIT Entrance Exam

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Post by Balgair » Thu, Jun 27, 2013, 11:19 PM UTC

I have been collaborating with 2 IIT grads, one Mumbai, one Calcutta. Holy cow, these guys are mot-ti-vated! They may not always be the inherent smartest guys, but man they can pack in the hours. I know that working smart is better than working hard but they sure as snot can work hard. Here in the US, I think we have an ok balance of the work and sports and school aspects. There in India, if your name gets published in the local newspaper next to your score, you can bet things look a bit different.

Not much to say, other than that those kids are gunning hard for a middle class life and legacy.

Re: The IIT Entrance Exam

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 27, 2013, 11:31 PM UTC

pitchups wrote: post #9

As I was watching the Google I/O webcast last month, the one thing that struck me was how some of the most important products and services from arguably the most influential tech company of our times, were headed by IIT graduates: Amit Singhal, a Google fellow, who heads their search team and essentially rewrote the critical ranking algorithm in 2001, and a graduate of IIT Roorkee [1]; Sundar Pichai, who heads Androi…

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Re: The IIT Entrance Exam

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Post by mkehrt » Thu, Jun 27, 2013, 11:43 PM UTC

pitchups wrote: post #13

sac2171 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you provide a link?

http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/

Wow, this is great!

Re: The IIT Entrance Exam

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Post by sc00ter » Fri, Jun 28, 2013, 12:09 AM UTC

"six grueling hours of chemistry, physics, and math"

Otherwise known as three two-hour papers - hardly the stuff of legend! I'm not suggesting the papers are easy, just that by any measure, at this level the length is nothing remarkable.

Re: The IIT Entrance Exam

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Post by iamshs » Fri, Jun 28, 2013, 12:11 AM UTC

As an undergrad product of one of the IITs, and among one of the last ones to write a main exam back in 2005, this was a nice article to read and a bit too self aggrandizing. One of the most amazing things about being on IIT campus was the collaborative culture, and the drive to initiate collaboration. There was no sense of competitiveness on the campus, that was once prevalent while giving JEE. Being among bright kids, all in their developmental stage, seeing their personalities form, seeing them follow career paths after graduating is so temporally connecting. One of the best memories remain the usage of campus centric lingo [1]. I am in contact with every single of my classmate without use of any social network. The bonds formed on campuses are incredibly strong. The support of our seniors deserves prominent mention, be it in school years or after passing out...that worldwide meshed network. Unparalleled.

[1] - http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/5134/da...

Re: The IIT Entrance Exam

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Post by iamshs » Fri, Jun 28, 2013, 12:21 AM UTC

sc00ter wrote: post #18

"six grueling hours of chemistry, physics, and math" Otherwise known as three two-hour papers - hardly the stuff of legend! I'm not suggesting the papers are easy, just that by any measure, at this level the length is nothing remarkable.

It is remarkable. It is a game of chess. You have to be in upper 4000 ranks to land a good engg. stream. And the ranks often have incredibly minor mark differences between them, which makes for harsher penalties in form of being denied good streams in good IITs. The mind games played in JEE is a game of chess. You only know the syllabus, and that's it. In my times, physics paper was easy and people scored a lot. It was Maths exam that made the difference. This is what makes the exam remarkable. And these iterations are there in every exam. I have given 3 hour exams in IIT in morning and evening...those were not grueling....but JEE was.