The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : CET may be completed in one day next year

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CET may be completed in one day next year

NEXT YEAR, when undergraduate professional seat aspirants sit for the Common Entrance Test (CET), it could be over in a day. The Higher Education Ministry is reportedly finalising a change in the entrance test question paper pattern, combining Physics and Chemistry into one. The Mathematics and Biology papers will then be held on the same day.

Although a formal announcement is awaited, students can prepare for the change. The Physics-Chemistry combined paper will be in the morning session followed by the two optional papers. Engineering seat aspirants are required to take the Physics-Chemistry and Mathematics papers, while medical seat aspirants will have to opt for the Biology paper in addition to the combined paper.

Negative marks will be done away with. Also proposed to be dropped is the Aptitude Test for the B. Arch course. The Council of Architecture had recommended that admission to architecture courses should be based on its National Aptitude Test in Architecture (NATA). Of course, these are early days for undergraduate admission. The State Government and private college managements will have to agree on several issues including seat-sharing and fee structure.

ABIGHAN 2006:

KRISTU JAYANTI College recently hosted a theatre festival with a difference, called "Abighan 2006."

Its objective was not to entertain, educate, emote or even evaluate histrionic talents.

Instead, six plays written, directed and produced by groups of MBA students of first semester class, were geared to use a new pedagogical tool to impart lessons in planning, coordination, leadership, time management and similar topics that students learn in the classroom.

Mobile Mania, Corporate Gandhi, Our Beautiful World, Man v/s Machine, Unity Never Dies and Smart Boys were the titles of the plays put up by the groups.

They were titles of plays chosen more or less indicative of what to expect as a storyline. But the "Story-Board" was more important and the performances reflected principles such as optimisation of scarce resources, ethics and social responsibility, dehumanisation of the industrial society, division of labour and group work.

KSHITIJ 2007

STUDENTS OF the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur were in the city to invite management students here to participate in the Institute's annual techno-management festival called "Kshitij 2007."

Held over a period of four days, the festival is one of the biggest such festivals in Asia in terms of prize money, participation figures and judges. Look out for the event from February 1 to 4, next year. The festival will have guest lectures by the 1995 Chemistry Nobel prize winner, Paul Crutzen; the former ISRO chairman K. Kasturirangan; India's first cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma; Artificial Intelligence expert Kevin Warwick and the 1996 Nobel prize winner Harold Kroto. For more details, visit "http://www.ktj.in/.

RASHEED KAPPAN

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