WBJEE 2008 results declared

Hey all!!!
The West Bengal board certainly did a commendable work by getting results ready within 3 weeks of conducting the examination. Though, they cut a sorry figure on the technological front when the websites where results where available crashed – thereby punctuating the wait of students with agony. But nevertheless, finally, the results are out…

And with results, a series of doubts must certainly have plagued your minds. We precisely aim to help you out with regards to these doubts.

As far as the eternal question – ‘what rank would fetch which college’ is concerned, it’s difficult to predict this time. The reason being the fact that domicile is introduced back. One thing is certain though, that the opening as well as closing ranks would come down considerably as compared to last year. So, unfortunately, students with a slightly lower rank, might not be able to get a branch which that rank might have fetched previous year.

Click here to go to the official website of the West Bengal board's counseling committee.

We are here to address all your problems. Any doubts as far as comparing courses and colleges are concerned, feel free to pour them out because this is your chance.

cheerz :)

India Today engineering college rankings 2008 raise eyebrows, yet again

To our dismay, and undoubtedly everyone else’s who has a certain estimate about engineering colleges, India Today’s 2008 ranking of the colleges has been more of a farce. The worst affected is the section of the society which believes on such rankings blindly. In one of my earlier articles (click here to read the article), I had pointed out grave shortcomings in their rankings for the year 2007. This time around, we have no shred of doubt left in our minds that such rankings are but a means to create sensationalism. In the next few lines, I’d present a very brief post-mortem of this year’s ranking which should justify my statements.

Firstly, the ranking method adopted by the organization states that they had experts from each of the major cities giving scores to the colleges in their own city. It’s strange as to how one could compare statistics from two different people about two different colleges. Anyways, following is a snapshot of the rank list they gave this year:

The factual ranks given to IIT Mumbai and IIT Chennai are laughable, to say the least. It is no rocket science that I'd have to explain as to why this is a farce. Any given day, no NIT could match these two institutes as far as any of the parameters considered for the ranking are concerned. Institutes like these and other IITs along with DCE, NSIT and NITs languish a certain Vellore Institue of Technology in factual rank could only be a stunt to create sensationalism, as stated earlier. I would come to the scintillating drop in ranks suffered by International Institute of Technology, Allahabad. And ohh yes!!! they yet again, conveniently forget to mention anywhere in there analysis, that certain institutes like BITS Pilani were not considered in the rankings because these institutes opted out. They could fathom the superfluousness in these rankings, for which I respect them.

I don't have to bring out the finer points, but even an inexperienced eye would note unexplainable statistics. I'd rather want to bring forth a comparison with last year's rank list India Today came up with. Here's a snapshot for engineering ranks 2007:
Now, the real fun begins. Check out the ranks obtained by IIIT Allahabad across all the parameters last year. It ranked 9th in all of them. And now check out the rank it obtained this year. 23rd in most of them. Are you kidding me!!! What could possibly happen in a span of just one year which could see the institute dropping to 23rd from 9th in parameters like infrastructure and job prospects. Either, there was a bomb explosion in the institute which robbed it off all its infrastructure (which is improbable since I didn't see anything of that sort in the news), or the other 14 institutes which fared better might suddenly have unearthed treasure in their campuses which enabled them to build on infrastructure better than IIIT Allahabad. Also, there must certainly have been a drop in the number of companies also because of that non-existent bomb explosion thereby explaining the poor performance in job prospects this time....what a joke!!! but then, that's what the 'famous' India Today suggests.

Go a step further and check out the 'factual ranks' given to IIT Chennai and Kharagpur last year and compare them to this year. Chennai, unfortunately, did something so bad this year, that it sky-rocketed the institute from being ranked 5th last year to 21st this time. They surely must be doing everything bad at the moment - maybe the government stopped flowing in the cash to build on its infrastructure, the companies might have thought why go all the way south to hire students, and the professors suddenly must have become hostile to the students because of the students not performing well thereby hurting the 'student care' parameter too. Wow!!! the ranks really rock, don't they??

And Kharagpur. Great, they could leap from the 10th spot last year (just imagine!!!) to the 2nd spot this time. Everything bad and vicious that might've happened in Chennai was probably reverted in Kharagpur.

Nahh....leave it.
I wish to say no more. You are intelligent enough to judge the authenticity and credibility of such rankings. What I'd appeal to you is not to go by these ranking lists and inquire about an institute properly before taking any decision. What is sensationalism(wow!!! i actually managed that word the third time, credit that to India Today) to such media houses, is future for you. Don't let your career be a puppet in their hands.

Would like to know your views on the topic. Please drop in your comments.

Very soon, I'd be posting the ranks of colleges in a unique way, after proper deliberation with a view to help students decide as to which would be a better option for them.

Check out the review at http://sultanofsamarkand.blogspot.com/2008/05/indiatoday-2008-t-school-rankings.html - a very interesting take at the rankings :)

All views are solely mine and are not expressed to demean the India Today group in any way. It's a voice raised against the system of ranking colleges and the lack of proper research before releasing these without realizing the impact it could have on the careers of innumerable students.

WBJEE 2008 (contd)

Hey everybody,
I would like to thank a couple of people for bringing to our notice two mistakes in our solutions to the physics paper of WBJEE 2008. Here are the correct solutions to those two questions:

31. The radius of curvature of a concave mirror is 24 cm and the image is magnified by 1.5 times. The object distance is: (a) 20 cm

37. A silicon and a germanium diode has identical physical dimensions. The band gap in silicon is larger that that in germanium. An identical reverse bias is applied across the diodes. (c) The reverse currents are identical in the two diodes


We also regret not having been able to upload the solutions to the mathematics and chemistry papers. This has been due to a very busy schedule we've been subjected to. Though, we are happy that we were the first ones to upload the physics solutions.


Here is a link to solutions of all the papers of WBJEE 2008 as given by a coaching institute: Aakash
BIOLOGY
PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY
MATHEMATICS


Hope these prove to be useful. If you face any doubt regarding any question in the papers, you are free to discuss with us in this forum.

PL

WBJEE 2008

WBJEE'08 which was scheduled to be held in April, due to reasons which are quite well-known, was shifter to 24th day of May'08 - that is today....

Students gave their exams amidst lots of speculations over what kind of subjective questions does the board plan to give....they did turn out to be tough - as the general opinion said. Though, they carried double the marks of their objective counterparts, thereby justifying their difficulty :)

Now, a quick analysis:
Physics was definitely the easiest of the lot. A more or less decent preparation would get one through with a very good score. Chemistry and Maths were almost on a similar platform. Though, certainly slightly tougher than Physics. Chemistry, in particular, had a good dose of organic chemistry and those who are comfortable with it, would have found it quite easy as well. Maths, as always, had a slight tinge of 'lengthiness' attached to it, but nothing which was not doable.

The deciding factor would almost certainly be Mathematics.


Here, I and my friend have provided the solution for the Physics paper (the objective section only). Due to paucity of time, as well as resources, we haven't yet come up with the other subjects' solution. But, we are trying our best.

We are, but humans (oh yes :D ). And hence, mistakes are indispensable. We would love to know if we made any mistakes in the solution. Also, because of lack of time, we have just given the answers (and not the solutions or the other options). If, you have any doubt as to how we reached a particular answer, you are free to contact us here. We'll try to reply you at the earliest :)

Here is the link:
WBJEE 2008 - Physics paper answers (objective) (u might have to scroll to top of page after clicking on the link) (incase the file doesn't download by that link, please use alternate link - and find the file on this page.

Get going and pour your views about the question paper here. Any doubts are always welcome :)
cheerzz
signing off - PL :)