| Monday, Apr 30, 2007
17,000 city students take AIEEE exam
Exam takes on added significance in the absence of CET
Chennai: For the 17,000 odd city students who appeared for the
All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) on Sunday,
their performance would play a crucial role in college admissions.
The AIEEE assumes greater significance in the context of the
Common Entrance Test (CET) being scrapped this year. Most students
are counting on their AIEEE scores to make it to institutions
of repute.
Feedback from students revealed that the paper was largely easy.
However, some students said they found the Physics section challenging.
"The paper was overall easy. I found Physics a little difficult,"
said Karthik Ravishankar, as student of Padma Seshadri (K.K.Nagar),
walking out of his centre - Vidya Mandir (Mylapore). Priya,
a student of a State Board school in Avadi, said she had been
preparing for over a month. Due to the dilemma regarding conduct
of the CET, she thought it would be safer to be better prepared
for the AIEEE, which determined students' admissions into National
Institutes of Technology (NITs) and other top-notch institutions
in the country. Purushotham had come all the way from Andhra
Pradesh to take the examination. " I am also preparing
for our EAMCET to be held on May 4," he said. The EAMCET
is the Common Entrance Test administered by the Andhra Pradesh
State Council of Higher Education. Purushotham, too, found the
Physics section difficult.
Ms. Ravindran, who was waiting outside an examination centre,
pointed to the additional pressure on students this year due
to the uncertainty, earlier, in a CET being held and now, the
lack of information on procedures to be adopted for engineering
admissions in Tamil Nadu.
The morning paper, which comprised sections on Mathematics,
Physics and Chemistry, had 40 questions in each section. Each
question carried three marks. Since the evaluation system provides
for negative marking, one mark will be deducted for every wrong
answer.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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