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The Hindu, Monday, Apr 12, 2010

CHENNAI: About 6,000 students took the Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) in 12 centres across the city on Sunday. A total of 4.72 lakh students appeared for the examination all over the country. This year's examination pattern did not spring too many surprises. The only minor changes were the absence of negative marking in two sections and a partial marking system (marks based on the number of right choices) in the multiple right answer questions. Explaining the rationale behind the removal of negative marking in some sections, T. S. Natarajan, organising chairman, JEE 2010, said, “Students who study so hard end up getting frustrated when they get negative marks on something. We do not want to stretch it beyond a point and want to move towards a system in which the effect of negative marking is minimised.” The testing followed the same kind of pattern that has been adopted over the past four years with questions from the following categories — multiple choice, assertion and reasoning, reading comprehension and match the following. Ajay Antony, course director, IIT-JEE, TIME, said: “The integer type questions in maths were especially tough.” Suchit Vasudevan, one of the test takers, said: “Maths was twice as hard as the last year paper that we took during mock exams. It was a good mix of conceptual and numerical questions. But there were some questions that you have a look at and you are absolutely clueless.” Pointing out that most students found the mathematics paper time consuming, K.K. Anand, founder and director of SMART Institute, said that it might result in the cut-off coming down in comparison to last year. The results of the examination will be out in the last week of May. “The counselling and seat allotment process will go online this year,” said Mr. Natarajan. General candidate students can select their course from the convenience of their homes. However, students availing themselves of the quota will have to go in person to show proof of identity. Students will be able to fill in their preference of courses and college online, and seats will be offered in order of rank and preference. It will be held between May 27 and June 9.

10th January 2010

To, Prof. Anand, Chennai -600033 Dear Prof. Anand, I was in the panel of teachers in the faculty of Electronics, Madras Institute of Technology quite some time back. Now, I am set to report the performance of my grand daughter Pujita Raman, a student of yours in previous batch. A proud record this tiny female child established, in her first semester, to stand top among the 12 toppers (with a CGPA of 10) in a student strength of 700, at Birla Institute of Technology & science, Hyderabad . Leave alone her personal record, I can't but admire the magnificent efforts taken by you to sow the powerful seedlings of intelligence in the young brains of your creation. My prayer to Goddess Sakthi to bestow upon you, good health, strong will power, wealth & prosperity eternally. Respectfully yours, (Prof. A.Lakshminarayanan) Phone : 24341999 1 st April 2009 To KK Anand Sir My name is Wataru Endo, and I am the section chief for Nagase Brothers, Inc., which is one of the biggest private education institutions in Japan . We have about 800 schools throughout Japan and more than 100 thousand students study at our schools. Our main focus is to provide coaching for students who want to gain entrance into prestigious universities such as Tokyo University . In order to improve the quality of our coaching methods, we are now conducting comparative research between Japan and India . Needless to say, IIT is now well-known as one of the best universities in the world. I am now focusing on coaching classes and on the Internet,I found that your coaching classes was well known for its very high standards of coaching. I would like to visit your coaching class and exchange ideas on education. I am going to visit Chennai later this month and would like to visit your office on April 29th, Wednesday. Please let me know if this will be convenient for you. I look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, Wataru Endo Wataru Endo Nagase Brothers Inc. mail: wataru.endo@nagasebros.com tel: 81-80-3096-0400 1 st June 2009 Dear Mr. KK Anand Greetings! Thank you for sharing your time and explaining how the coaching industry is in India . We are touched how much effort and enthusiasm you put into education. I and my colleagues come back to India and started to review what we've learnt there. Please keep in touch. Wataru Endo Wataru Endo Nagase Brothers Inc. mail: wataru.endo@nagasebros.com tel: 81-80-3096-0400