Goa VS Pilani... The True Story for BITS Aspirants n Parents

The_Shadow · BITSian - Moderator Status: Offline Posts: 4195

Would put IIT-G above NIT-T and BPGC :IIT-G has better placements/faculty/foreign univ admits/facilities + brand value

KK · Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:35 am Post subject:

sudhir · Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:50 am Post subject:

Shivambest · Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 7:27 pm Post subject:

Lovely post cheers

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Rogue · Regular Status: Offline Posts: 68 Location: New Delhi

I am not a BITSian as yet, but I hope to be one this year. If I do get a choice, I will join the goa campus (for a million reasons).

So I don't know if I have the "right" to say this as yet, but I still will.

Be it Pilani campus/Goa campus/Hyderabad campus, as long as the knowledge you get is the same, the whole feel of the name BITS PILANI is there, how does it matter what campus!

Rogue · Regular Status: Offline Posts: 68 Location: New Delhi

Here is a brief analysis of BITSAT vs JEE

This analysis is on the basis of what I experienced as a student appearing for both exams. I am layman, and please do forgive me if I get my facts wrong or if this offends you in any way.

Paranoid people in India say IIT is the best because its entrance exam is the most difficult to crack. I disagree. Here is why
1) Okay, the difficulty level of questions asked in JEE is higher than BITSAT. Agreed, but then that is compensated by the higher cutoffs in BITSAT compared to JEE.
2) IIT-JEE has around 180 questions (keeps changing every year) to be solved in 2 rounds, i.e. six hours. In BITSAT, one has to solve 150 questions in 180 minutes
To crack JEE, one needs IQ.
To crack BITSAT, one needs IQ + accuracy with speed
3)BITSAT has en eligibility of 80% in board exams, for JEE you need 60%.
4) To get a selection in JEE, even if you're clear with 60% of your syllabus, you can make it through, but for BITSAT, one must be clear with all topics as the cutoffs are high and a 60% score will not suffice.

So I feel cracking BITSAT is a touch more difficult than cracking JEE.

No offense meant to anyone

The_Shadow · BITSian - Moderator Status: Offline Posts: 4195

I don't know how JEE has become in the past few years.But I was the first batch to have a paper without the Mains exam. But throughout my coaching I did a LOT of Mains qns and was pretty good at that.Has helped me a lot.
Do you people still do those crazy Mains problems in coaching?

Shivam Verma · Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 11:08 am Post subject:

JEE is, what it was Smile

»»Urban_Legend™«« · Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 1:48 pm Post subject:

I really dont feel so. JEE has dropped its standars a LOT! When we practiced questions in our coaching, it gave a completely different feeling of the exam than the real exam itself. Over the past few years, JEE has definitely changed and for the worse.
We still did those crazy mains problems but the exam wasnt the same.