National Level School Students Software Competition - Computer Society of India

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Computer Society of India conducts a National Level School Students Software Competition every year. The winners will represent the country in the SEARCC International Schools’ Software Competitions as per details given below.

 Objective : To bring out problem solving and programming talents in school students, with speed, accuracy and team co-ordination, in a competitive environment and motivate them with due recognition, besides attractive prizes and certificates.

 Eligibility :
 It is a team based competition. Each team will consist of 3 students. All team members of school teams must be full-time students with age of 18 years or under, i.e. born on or after 1st January 1998.
A school can register only one team. 

Format:
The competition will be of two (2) hours duration, consisting of 4 problems using ONE of the Programming languages, viz., C or C++ or Java. It is to test the problem solving ability using a computer programming language. The teams will be selected on the basis of correct outputs and speed of submission of solutions to problems.
4.2 A first level Regional Competition is scheduled on Sunday the 31st July 2016 and will be held in 21 centres as per details given below. 

1 Allahabad
2 Bangalore 
3 Bhilai 
4 Bhubaneswar 
5 Chandigarh
6 Cochin 
7 Coimbatore 
8 Chennai 
9 Goa 
10 Guwahati
11 Hyderabad
12 Kolkata
13 Lucknow
14 Mumbai
15 Nashik
16 New Delhi
17 Pune
18 Rourkela
19 Trichy
20 Udaipur
21 Vadodara

Depending on response of teams, more centres can be added as appropriate. Please indicate your choice of the city. However, if the number of teams is very less in a city, we shall allocate the nearest centre with sufficient notice to you. Expenses for taking part in first level regional competition will have to be borne by the teams or schools themselves.

 National Level Final Competition will be held in Chennai on Sunday, 11th Sep 2016

Travel assistance for National Competition : The teams selected for participation in the National Level Final Competition, with one accompanying teacher per team will be paid the actual cost of travel by train in II class sleeper coach by the shortest route from origin to Chennai and back.

Participation in SEARCC International Schools’ Software Competitions : The top two teams at the National level will represent India at the SEARCC International Schools’ Software Competition 2016 (ISSC 2016) to be held between 3 rd & 6th November 2016. Place & Venue will be intimated later.

Entry Fee : Rs.300/- per team. Payment can be made through NEFT (online)
Favouring CSI Education Directorate
SB Account No 10792463745
Bank Name State Bank of India
Branch SME Branch, Adyar, Chennai 600020
IFS Code SBIN0013361

Note : Do not Deposit Cash directly in this account

payment can also be made by Demand Draft drawn in favour of “CSI Education Directorate” payable at Chennai to be sent along with completed registration form to Computer Society of India to the address given below 
Mr R K Vyas, Coordinator
Computer Society of India
Education Directorate, National Headquarters
C.I.T. Campus, 4th Cross Road, Taramani, Chennai - 600 113
Phone : +91-44-2254 1102 / 2254 1103 / 2254 2874
E-mail : admn.officer@csi-india.org 




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Books to Improve Your Vocabulary

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A good vocabulary is very important for effective communication. Good vocabulary is essential to properly communicate your thoughts and ideas. You will tested for your vocabulary in entrance examinations and competitions.

Books like Word Power Made Easy by Norman Lewis provides you the roots of words which will help you to learns and master the meanings of new words easily. The book starts with an assessment of your current vocabulary and then introduces the new words with their etymology in a very interesting way. It is a must have for a learner of English language.

Here is a list of books that will help you to improve your vocabulary and these books are available now at discounted rates at Amazon.

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YLAC India - Young Leaders for Active Citizenship - Boot Camp

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The YLAC boot camp is a one of a kind program, designed and curated to enable young adults to become active agents of change in their communities. It is meant to give them an opportunity to reflect deeply about their identity, to broaden their perspective and to arm them with skills to affect change in their immediate contexts. It is also designed to give them an early exposure to liberal arts and to introduce them to some emerging career options in the discipline.

The 21 day program will be anchored by Rohit Kumar (Alumnus of Harvard Kennedy School of Government) and Aparajita Bharti (Alumna of Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University). The program will introduce participants to the theoretical underpinnings of democracy and the welfare state, engage them in live projects with partner NGOs and provide an opportunity to interact with an eclectic mix of speakers from diverse backgrounds.

YLAC invites participation from promising young adults (grades 9th-12th) who have a keen interest in making a contribution to the broader society. Please visit our applications page to apply to the program.

The first boot camp is scheduled to begin on the 5th of June 2016 (Sunday). It is designed to be a mix of exercises, lectures, site visits and group work. The boot camp will include a two week supervised internship in an organization to be chosen by the participant from among our NGO partners. The detailed schedule can be accessed here. The boot camp will conclude on the 26th of June 2016 (Sunday).


Venue
The in-class sessions will be held from 10 am to 5 pm in the serene surroundings of Zorba the Buddha, located along the Mehrauli Gurgaon Road in Delhi. The complete address is as below:

Zorba the Buddha

No. 7, Tropical Drive, Mehrauli – Gurgaon Road,

Ghitorni, New Delhi, India – 110030

Eligibility
The YLAC boot camp is open to all students:
  • Currently enrolled in grades 9th to 12th
  • No more than 19 years of age on 1st Jan, 2016

Since the primary medium of instruction will be English, comfort with the English language is required. Fluency in Hindi is desired as participants will be allocated to work with partner organisations on community projects.

 Fees and scholarships

Fees

Program fee: Rs. 25,000 per participant (excluding service tax @15%)

YLAC will make arrangements for lunch and refreshments during the in-class sessions at Zorba the Buddha as well as during the two planned field visits.

We are accepting applications on a rolling basis. Typically, applicants will be informed within a week of submitting the application online. Fees will be payable after the selection decision has been communicated to the applicant.

Applicants travelling from other cities should make their own boarding and lodging arrangements.



Scholarships
We recognize that all deserving candidates may not have the means to fund their participation in the program. To enable such candidates, YLAC will offer need and merit based scholarships to a few selected candidates.

For the June 2016 boot camp, up to five applicants will be offered 50% scholarships. To be considered for the scholarship, applicants must submit an additional essay explaining why they wish to participate in the program and why their application should be considered for a scholarship, as well as a short letter of recommendation from a teacher at school.

Scholarship decisions will be announced soon after the applications deadline.

Last Date: 8 May 2016


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How to Prepare for Green Olympiad - Green Olympiad Previous Question Papers and Sample Papers

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Green Olympiad and Green Olympiad Junior are India's best environmental examination conducted annually by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).

Eligibility for Green Olympiad: Students of Class VIII to X
Green Olympiad Junior: Students of Class IV - V

The Green Olympiad question paper is for 100 marks with 100 multiple choice questions. All the questions will be related to environment and to the theme chosen for the year. The Green Olympiad question papers are well known for the quality of well researched questions.

How to Prepare for Green Olympiad

To score high in Green Olympiad you need to prepare by regularly reading newspapers and magazines related to environment. Magazines like Down to Earth and TerraGreen will be helpful in preparation.

Sample papers are available at www.teriin.org/olympiad
You may see the Green Olympiad previous year question papers to get an idea about the questions.
Green Olympiad and Enviroquiz published by TERI are also available for preparation.
Also read books on environments, environment quiz books etc.
It will also be helpful watching informative television channels - Discovery, National Geographic, Animal Planet etc.
The EVS textbooks  will also be helpful for preparation.
TERI has recently introduced an app for assessing your green quotient. You can download it from Google Play Store by clicking here.

You may visit http://studentsgkquiz.blogspot.in for quizzes on environment which contains question from previous year olympiads and practice questions for preparation

Green Olympiad Practice Quizzes
Green Olympiad Previous Year Question Papers
The last few years question papers of Green Olympiad is available for download here.

Useful Books for Preparation for Green Olympiad
There are no Official Study Materials for Green Olympiad, but TERI has published some books.   The links are provided below.Green Olympiad mock test are also not available.


Some importance websites that will be useful for preparing for Green Olympiad are given below.
The Green Olympiad certificates to the participants and merit certificates will be despatched on publication of the results. The results will be available on  Green Olympiad site which can be viewed individually of school-wise.
All the best.
Leave you suggestions or questions, if any as a comment.
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iNEST 2016 (iNurture Education Scholarship Test – 2016)

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iNEST is an initiative to encourage students to pursue new-age, career-ready degree programs with the best of career prospects from recognized institutes in the country by iNurture Education Solutions, a Bangalore based educational institution offering new-age degree programmes.

Exam Date: 4th April 2016, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Mode of Exam: Online

iNurture awards scholarships to Indian students to pursue higher studies in India. The winners will be selected strictly on the basis of merit.The top scorers in Science, Commerce, and Arts streams will be granted scholarships. iNEST is the online test for selection of the talented students.

Eligibility
Class 12 regular students of a recognized educational institution who have scored above 50% from a recognized board of examination in class X and XI (of 10+1 pattern) or equivalent.

Scholarships
Scholarship of 1 lakh to first 10 students, Rs. 75000 to the next 10 and Rs. 50000 to the next 10 students.
Certificates of Performance to the top 300 students in the test with All India Ranking
Certificates of Participation to all students who write the test

Syllabus
 10th Standard Science, Maths, History, Geography, Social Studies, English and Logical Reasoning

Last date for Submission of application forms:  1st April, 2016

Click here for more details and to apply online
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Career Guidance Class at Thrissur

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What after SSLC and Plus Two?

 Madhyamam Daily in association with Mercury Academy will organise a career guidance class for students on 10 April 2016 at Ansar Women's College Auditorium, Perumpilav, Thrissur.

 Famous career guidance specialist Dr. P R Venkita Raman will lead the class. 

 150 students will be admitted to the class on first-cum-first-serve basis.

Last date for registration: 5 April 2016.

 For registration contact: 04872429189, 9645006113

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Joint Entrance Examination (JEE)

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Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) is an all India common engineering entrance examination conducted for admission in various engineering colleges and courses in India.
JEE consists of two parts, JEE Mains and JEE Advanced.
JEE-Advanced is for admission to Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), and Indian School of Mines Dhanbad.
JEE-Main exam is for admission to Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs), National Institutes of Technology (NITs), centrally funded technical institutes (CFTIs) as well as for admission to the dual degree programme of IIEST Shibpur. Only the students selected in JEE Mains are eligible for appearing in JEE Advanced.
Besides,  institutes like the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs), Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, and the Indian Institute of Science use the score obtained in JEE Advanced as the basis for admission.

 ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

  • B.Tech. Bachelor of Technology 4 years
  • B.S. Bachelor of Science 4 years
  • B.Pharm. Bachelor of Pharmaceutics 4 years
  • B.Arch. Bachelor of Architecture 5 years
  • Dual Degree B.Tech.-M.Tech. Dual Degree Bachelor of Technology and Master of Technology 5 years
  • Dual Degree B.S.-M.S. Dual Degree Bachelor of Science and Master of Science 5 years
  • Integrated Dual Degree M.Pharm. Integrated Dual Degree Master of Pharmaceutics 5 years
  • Integrated M.Tech. Integrated Master of Technology 5 years
  • Integrated M.Sc. Integrated Master of Science 5 years

RESERVATION OF SEATS

  • Other Backward Classes belonging to the Non-Creamy Layer (OBC-NCL) – 27% of seats in every course
  • Scheduled Caste (SC) – 15% of seats in every course.
  • Scheduled Tribe (ST) – 7.5% of seats in every course.
  • Persons with Disability (PwD) – 3% seats in each of OPEN, OBC-NCL, SC and
  • ST category seats.
  • Two seats are available for preferential allotment in each Institute for Defence Service (DS) candidates
  • Seats allotted to foreign nationals are supernumerary with a cap of 10% of total number of seats in every course. 

JEE (MAIN) 
Candidates who wish to appear in JEE (Advanced) must write Paper-1 of JEE (Main) which will be held in the month of April. 

ELIGIBILITY FOR APPEARING IN JEE(MAIN)
Only those candidates who have passed their Class 12th Exam or any equivalent qualifying
examination in the previous academic session; or those who are appearing in their Class 12th Exam or any equivalent qualifying examination in the current academic session are eligible to appear in JEE (Main) . (See information bulletin for eligibility criteria at http://jeemain.nic.in/)

Mode of Examination
The Paper-1 (B.E./B. Tech.) (described below) of JEE (Main) will be conducted in two separate modes i.e. Offline (Pen and Paper Based Examination) mode and Online (Computer Based Examination) mode. The Paper-2 (B. Arch./B. Planning.) of JEE (Main) will be conducted only in Pen and Paper based examination mode. A candidate will opt for either Pen and Paper Based or Computer Based examination modes for Paper-1 (B. E./B. Tech.) only.

Type of Examination
JEE (Main) – 2016 shall have two papers, Paper-1 (B. E. / B. Tech.) and Paper-2 (B. Arch. / B. Planning.). Candidates may take Paper-1 (B. E. / B. Tech.), or Paper-2 (B. Arch. / B. Planning.), or both as per the course(s) they are seeking admission to.
Subject combinations for each paper, type of questions in each paper and mode of examination available is given in the table below.

PAPER
SUBJECTS
 TYPE OF QUESTIONS
 MODE OF EXAM
Paper 1 (B.E./ B. Tech.)
 Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics
Objective type with equal weightage to Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics
Pen and Paper based OR Computer based
Paper 2 (B.Arch./ B.Planning)
Mathematics – Part I Aptitude Test – Part II & Drawing Test – Part III
Objective type Objective type
Questions to test drawing aptitude Only Pen and Paper based

Requirement of papers for different courses is given in the table below.

All other undergraduate courses (B.E. /B. Tech.): Paper –1
B.ARCH/B. PLANNING(At Institutions other than IITs) : Paper –2

Choice of Medium of Question Papers
1. All Examination Centre Cities:  English and Hindi Medium
2. Examination Centre Cities in Gujarat, Daman & Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli : English, Hindi and Gujarati

Cities/Towns of JEE (Main) - Examination Centres
JEE (Main) - 2016 will be conducted in major cities and towns of India as well as abroad. The lists of cities are given in INFORMATION BULLETIN. While applying, candidates must select four centre cities in case of Pen & Paper based examination and one city in case of Computer based examination.

Number of Attempts The number of attempts which a candidate can avail at JEE (Main) shall be limited to 03 (three).

JEE (ADVANCED) 
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR APPEARING IN JEE (Advanced)
The minimum academic qualification for appearing in JEE (Advanced) - is that the candidate must have passed in final examination of Class 12th or equivalent qualifying examination. Those appearing in these examinations can also appear in JEE (Advanced) - provisionally. 

APPLICATION PROCEDURE FOR JEE (Main) AND JEE (Advanced) 
In order to appear in JEE (Main) and JEE (Advanced) 2016, the candidates are required to apply only online as per procedure.

JEE Syllabus (Mains)

Previous Question Papers 2015

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Recommended Books for JEE Preparation

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Chemistry Books for JEE Preparation

Numerical Chemistry 22/e 
P. Bahadur
New Pattern Textbook of Physical Chemistry for Competitions (JEE Main & Advanced )
O.P. Tandon
University Chemistry
Bruce M. Mahan
Modern Approach to Chemical Calculations by RC Mukherjee

Physical Chemistry
ATKINS
General Chemistry
Darrell D. Ebbing
New Pattern Textbook of Organic Chemistry for Competitions IIT-JEE and All Other Engineering Entrance Exams 
O.P. Tandon		 Essential Organic Chemistry
Paula Yurkanis Bruice

A Guidebook to Mechanism in Organic Chemistry 
Peter Sykes
Organic Chemistry Vol. 1 
I. L. Finar
March's Advanced Organic Chemistry (with CD): Reactions, Mechanisms and Structure (WSE) 
Michael B. Smith
New Pattern Textbook of Inorganic Chemistry for Competiotions (JEE Main & Advanced )
O.P. Tandon

Concise Inorganic Chemistry 
Lee
J.D. Lee Concise Inorganic Chemistry for Jee (Main & Advanced) third edition (2016) 
Sudarsan Guha

Physics Books for JEE Preparation
  1. Fundamentals of Physics by Halliday, Resnick and Walker
  2. Aptitude Test Problems in Physics by Krotov
  3. Problems in General Physics by I E Irodov
  4. Advance Physics by Nelkon and Parker
  5. Concepts of Physics Volume 1 & 2 by HC Verma
  6. Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P Feynman
  7. University Physics by Freedman and Young
Mathematics Books for JEE Preparation
  1. Class XI and XII books by RD Sharma
  2. Trigonometry by SL Loney
  3. Coordinate Geometry by SL Loney
  4. Higher Algebra by Hall Knight
  5. Complete Mathematics for JEE - TMG
  6. Calculus and Analytic Geometry by Thomas and Finney 
  7. Vector Algebra by Shanti Narayan

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JEE Advanced ARCHITECTURE APTITUDE TEST

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ARCHITECTURE APTITUDE TEST

Freehand drawing

This would comprise of simple drawing depicting the total object in its right form and proportion, surface texture, relative location and details of its component parts in appropriate scale. Common domestic or day-to-day life usable objects like furniture, equipment, etc., from memory.


Geometrical drawing

Exercises in geometrical drawing containing lines, angles, triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, circles, etc. Study of plan (top view), elevation (front or side views) of simple solid objects like prisms, cones, cylinders, cubes, splayed surface holders, etc.


Three-dimensional perception

Understanding and appreciation of three-dimensional forms with building elements, colour, volume and orientation. Visualization through structuring objects in memory.


Imagination and aesthetic sensitivity

Composition exercise with given elements. Context mapping. Creativity check through innovative uncommon test with familiar objects. Sense of colour grouping or application.


Architectural awareness


General interest and awareness of famous architectural creations – both national and international, places and personalities (architects, designers, etc.) in the related domain.

JEE Syllabus (Mains)

Previous Question Papers 2015
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