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10,400 students appear for AIEEE

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engrossed: Students taking the All-India Engineering Entrance Examination at a centre in Bangalore on Sunday.

Bangalore: As many as 10,400 students from the city appeared for the All-India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) held on Sunday.

More than seven lakh students took the test across the country in hope of getting into the 20 National Institutes of Technology and several other Centrally funded colleges.

Rajashekhar G., a student, said that the physics section of the three-hour paper was difficult. “Chemistry and mathematics sections were fairly easy. I have been preparing for this examination for the past six months and hope to clear it,” he said.

Vasanth Naidu, Rajashekhar’s father said that he wanted his son to clear the examination and join a prestigious engineering college. “His mother and me have done whatever is possible from our side to motivate him to do better,” he said.

Venugopal G.V., a civil engineer, was waiting outside the centre where his daughter Deepa was taking the examination. “She wants to take up engineering. She has been exposed to my line of work and naturally, got interested in the field,” he said.

About the examination, Deepa, a student from Kumaran’s Pre-University College, said that students, who had prepared for IIT- JEE (Indian Institutes of Technology–Joint Entrance Examination) would have found the AIEEE easy. I have written the Common Entrance Test and will appear for the test by Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka. Since the syllabus is more-or-less the same, I did not take any special measures for AIEEE,” she added.

Ankita Hegde from Arsikere in Hassan district said that she found the paper very difficult. “I gave more importance to CET. That is the reason why I failed to do better in this examination,” she said.

Close to 2,000 students appeared for AIEEE’s second paper that comprised mathematics and an aptitude test for admission to Bachelor of Architecture and Bachelor of Planning courses.

Ajay Anthony, vice-president, TIME, told The Hindu that the examination was slightly different from that of last year.

The number of questions and the total marks had reduced this year. “Each section — physics, chemistry and mathematics — had only 35 questions this year. Last year, each section had 40. Several versions of the question papers were released this year. The versions of papers for one State were not available elsewhere. It was a well-balanced paper with weightage given to important areas in all subjects,” he said.

A serious student would have found the paper “reasonably challenging and satisfying.”

Another change this year was the introduction of new forms of questions — paragraph and assertion reasoning.

These types of questions usually appeared in the IIT-JEE, he said.

“Due to the increase in the number of students and reduction in the number of questions, each mistake could prove to be fatal for the student,” he added.

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