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Zomato is scouting for algorithm engineers at IIT campuses. High frequency trading companies are looking for statistical process control experts with high scores in quant. Consulting companies want associate product managers. And conglomerates are seeking chemical engineers for their ESG operations. Recruiters prowling the premier engineering schools at this year’s hiring season are shunning students with the regular academic profiles, instead picking to-be-engineers who have worked in complex projects. Blame AI. “If we wanted regular coders, engineers, or get impressed with presentations, we would have relied on ChatGPT,” said a partner at a leading consulting company that has hired more ... Read more

National Testing Agency (NTA) Monday said the Admit Card for applicants of UGC NET December 2023 has been made live at URL https://ugcnet.nta.ac.in and applicants whose examination is scheduled on 6th, 7th and 8th December, can now download their Admit Card from the NTA UGC website. The University Grant Commission (UGC) National Eligibility Test (NET) December 2023 exam city slip was released on December 2, 2023. The UGC NET December 2023 session examinations are scheduled at different centres throughout the country from December 6 to December 14, 2023. The Examination dates are:  6 December, 7 December, 8 December, 11 December, ... Read more

The Indian Institutes of Technology participating in their ongoing placements programme have asked recruiters to confirm there will not be any delays in the onboarding of the selected students. Some students from the placements team at IIT-Kanpur, in fact, told Mint that they have informed companies participating in the campus recruitment that if they deferred onboarding beyond a certain period they would be blacklisted. These students declined to be identified. The premier engineering colleges are concerned about a repeat of potential delays in joining dates for the selected students, as had happened to previous graduating batch given slowdowns in certain ... Read more

The first day of the annual ritual of clamouring for engineers graduating from the Indian Institutes of Technology has surfaced modest hiring patterns, even based on announcements from just three of these premier institutes as of Friday evening. IIT-Bombay saw 40 companies interviewing on the first day of placements, with about 80% of regular recruiters participating. While more than 250 pre-placement offers were accepted, the engineering college expects over 350 companies to participate in this year’s placement season.  Among the recruiters at IIT-Bombay on Day 1 were Google India, Apple, Microsoft India, Procter and Gamble, Sony Japan, Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, ... Read more

Delhi pre-primary school admission registration process for classes nursery, KG, and Class 1 for the academic year 2024-25 in private schools began on November 23 by the Directorate of Education notification. Here are some points to keep in mind before applying for admission. For admission to preschool, and nursery, the age should be three years while for pre-primary, KG class, the age should be four years and for Class-1 minimum age should be five years as of March 31, according to the Directorate of Education notification.  The notification further specifies upper-age limits to be less than four years for pre-school, ... Read more

The Central Board of Secondary Education will not award any division, distinction or aggregate of marks in class 10 and 12 board exams. The official release from the Board state, “The CBSE is receiving requests from various person to intimate the criteria for calculating the percentage of the students in the Board’s examinations.” “In this regard, it is informed that the sub-section 40.1 (iii) of Chapter-7 of the Examination Bye-Laws stipulate that “’No overall division/distinction/aggregate shall be awarded.'” The statement further added, “Also, if a candidate has offered more than 5 subjects, the decision to determine the best 5 subjects ... Read more

Delhi pre-primary school admission registration process for classes nursery, KG, and Class 1 for the academic year 2024-25 in private schools began on November 23 in accordance with the Directorate of Education notification. Delhi’s private schools released their admission criteria with specific points allocated to distance, siblings, and parents’ qualifications among other prongs on November 20 at their official websites. Also read: Admission to nursery in Delhi schools tougher than IIT entrance: Ashneer Grover Schools will upload details of applicants under open seats on December 29. Marks allotted to each child as per the criteria will be uploaded on January ... Read more

The Bihar Public Service Commission will begin the registration process for the BPSC 69th Main Exam 2023 on November 27, 2023. The recruitment aims to fill 475 vacant positions in different departments of the Bihar government. 5299 eligible candidates, who have qualified for the preliminary examination, can apply for the main examination through the official website of BPSC at bpsc.bih.nic.in. As per the official notification, the last date to apply for the BPSC 69th mains examination is December 6, 2023. You can also edit the fully filled submitted application form till December 8, 2023 through a link which will generated ... Read more

The NEET (National Entrance-cum-Eligibility Test) was imposed on Tamil Nadu and the state will get itself exempted with public support, chief minister MK Stalin said on Sunday. Claiming that the NEET was “imposed” on Tamil Nadu to “destroy the medical infrastructure” in the state, Stalin recalled the many suicides of medical aspirants in the state allegedly over the exam. “We have embarked on a legal struggle to ensure NEET exemption. Some may say with arrogance, even some in (official) positions may say that NEET exemption is not possible. (But) NEET exemption is our aim and it will happen with public ... Read more

Students who have opted for the PCM (Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics) stream in Class 11 and 12 can still become doctors now in the country. As per the latest guidelines by the National Medical Commission (NMC), the PCM stream students can clear the biology/biotechnology examination as an additional subject at 10+2 level from any recognised board to become a doctor eventually. NEET PG qualifying percentile reduced to zero: Congress slams decision The new NMC rule says that students who pursued physics, chemistry, biology, or biotechnology along with English even as an additional subject after passing class 12 from duly recognised ... Read more