What makes you an IITian ??

Today when a student thinks of his carrier in the field of engineering, he suddenly develops a dream of becoming an IIT Engineer. It was foretold that by some of my elders that for getting admission in IIT’s you really need to be intelligent. But with new complete fee structure and government policy of caste discrimination this proverb is loosing its value.

If today young aspirants will ask me about the admission in IIT’s, I will simply reply him back that you require two things for becoming an IIT Engineer.

1. 1. You should have a real conceptual mind (or you can develop them in new trends higher secondary school i.e. deemed Coaching Institutes).

2. 2. Your Father’s pocket should be full of cash (a turning point for becoming an IIT Engineer).

Today when any student starts his preparation for JEE, the most important step is

· Selection of Coaching

Due to recent change in the examination pattern of JEE, it has become important even for a real intelligent person to join coaching for JEE. These new higher secondary schools of India are the real makers of IITian. Without these a person can’t think of becoming an IITian.

Now, if we take a look over the fees taken by these reputed schools for providing their valuable efforts to make the future of your children, you will come to know the importance of these institutes for your child.

There are basically two modes of joining a coaching institute. Either you can go to hub cities of coaching institutes like KOTA, DELHI etc, or you can do preparation in your home with a less popular coaching institute and a correspondence of any hot shot coaching.

Plan A: - Preparation in HUB CITIES

EASONS	FEES
Coaching tuition fee	Rs. 40,000/- per annum
Housing charge	Rs. 2000/- per month
Mess charge	Rs. 1500/- per month
Stationary charges	Rs. 700/- per month
Other charges	Rs.1200/- per month

Plan B: - Preparation in your own city

REASONS	FEES
Coaching tuition fees	Rs. 35,000/- per annum
Stationary charges	Rs. 700/- per month
Correspondence material charges	Rs. 12,000/- per annum

Plan A, Total expenditure in two years: - Rs. 1, 44,480.

Plan B, Total expenditure in two years: - Rs. 1, 02, 400.

Now even after this there is no surety that your child is going to get selection in any of the IIT’s with any shit branch. So, there is a trend of wasting one important year of your life which is called as a drop in these new Higher Secondary School. Even if you have got something in other good colleges like NIT’s etc. they will force you to waste one year to get admission in IIT’s.

I don’t want anyone to not get selected in these IIT’s in the first attempt of JEE , after two year of comprehensive study in these Institutes, but since due to great population of India as the percentage of selection is only 2% . So, around 40% of the student who don’t get select in there fresh year, take drop and again start cramming for JEE. As with new pattern of JEE, the importance of cramming is more than the mere intelligence of a candidate.

Now you have chased your dream and you have got admission in prestigious IIT’s, but your father’s pocket is going to suffer a lot . Now, here is the fees structure of an IIT (Revised one which came into effect in current year 2008-09)

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BOMBAY

Fees for B.Tech/DD/ 5-Yr M.Sc. students admitted during the academic year 2008-09

Now this is fees payable for one semester in IIT Bombay and the mess charges are not included in this as it depends on the intake of a child. Mess advance normally comes as 15,000/- per semester . So, if we add up the fees of one year excluding the refundable fees and the fees that is being charge annually.

Total = Rs. 1,02,752 (for GN/OBC) , Rs. 52,752 (for SC/ST)

Now total cost for making your child an IITian if your child clears JEE in his first attempt would be around = (1, 44,480 + 4*1,02,352) = Rs. 5,53,888 /-

So, now it would be quite sure for you all that for becoming an IITian your child should have brain and you should also have money which is really a turning point in your child’s selection in JEE and for the dream of your child to become an IITian.

Placement analysis of IIT Kanpur

We all consider IIT Kanpur as a dream college for any engineering aspirants in india . A student when decides to prepare for competitive examination of enginnering , he often see his destination as IIT knapur in his dream for future . But , is this great college is doing well in terms of placement too? , probably we can analyse it now . As it was very difficult to get the authorised data of placement record of IIT Kanpur , i won't be able to present all the required essence of placement of IIT Kanpur . I am presenting here the placement data of 2006-07 in IIT Kanpur.


As placement session is held in second semester for all the degrees in IIT Kanpur. Before discussing about the details of the placement . I will present here some salient features about IIT kanpur in the fiels of acadmics.

•  There are five letter grades which have numerical equivalents on 10 point scale.
  

• In addition, there are three letter grades, viz., I, S and X, which stand for Incomplete, Satisfactory and Unsatisfactory, respectively.
  

• Further, for courses with zero weightage only Pass (P) / Fail (F) grades are awarded.
  

• Cumulative Performance Index (CPI): The overall academic performance of a student in all the courses registered up to last
  
• Semester I: From the fourth week of July to the last week of
  November
  Semester II : From the last week of December to the last week of
  April
  Summer Term: From the middle of May to the middle of July
  Each academic semester of four months comprises of two Mid
  semester examinations, and one end semester exam along with
  regular quizzes, presentations, projects, assignments, term paper
  and term projects.

For Practical knowledge and hands on experience there are full lab
courses also.

A student is required to complete successfully all the courses of the
curriculum prescribed for programme and obtain a minimum CPI
as under:

B.Tech.: 5.0
B.Tech.-M.Tech. (Dual degree): 6.5
M.Sc.(Integrated): 5.0
M.Sc. (2 year): 6.0
M.Sc.-Ph.D.(Dual degree): 6.0

Since I was not able to get the information about the average package of IIT kanpur , I will be presenting here only the list of recruiters and percentage of placement according to different no. of branches in the campus.

List of Recruitors in placement year 2006-07 in IIT kanpur :-


Demographic related to the distribution of student in academic year 2006-07 for the placement :-


As there is no enough data on the packages by different companies and the average pay in the campus for the undergraduate placement , it is not possible to compare it's placement with any other college in the list . So , In this srticle I am not talking about it's placement for the session 2007-07 , but i will surely do when i will get the official data . I request all the enthu IIT- K ians to contribute to their college by sending me the actual data on my gmail id shanky19892006@gmail.com.