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Students preparing for entrance examination take the model one

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The test has got incorporated latest changes made by AIEEE

— Photo: K. Pichumani

CAREER OPTION: Students registering to write the AIEEE-Mock Test at Anna Adarsh Matric HSS, Anna Nagar in Chennai on Sunday.

CHENNAI: With the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) scheduled for April 26, many students who took the model exam offered by AIMS Education on Sunday said they took it “to gain practice under exam conditions.”

“The entire syllabus has been covered in school and I have also been attending coaching classes for the IIT-Joint Entrance Examination. So I am confident about my preparation. But this model exam helps me get a feel of the actual exam and will also give me an idea of where I stand with respect to other students,” said K. Priyank, a student at P.S. Senior Secondary school, after finishing the exam at the Adyar centre.

Students in some of the 16 centres in Chennai where the exam was held said the paper tested their preparation. “Physics was tough,” was a frequent refrain, while many said the Chemistry section was easy.

M. Arjun of Vidya Mandir said the paper was similar in difficulty to the previous years’ AIEEE papers.

Rosemary, a State Board student, said the exam was tough but it exposed some of her weaknesses. “I have to study harder for Physics.” Although there have been many reports that the AIEEE, which is based on the NCERT syllabus, favours CBSE students, she was confident of doing better in the actual exam with a more thorough preparation.

Other State Board students also said that the exam, which is used for entrance into the National Institutes of Technology and other institutions, was important for them and that they were confident they could adjust to the different syllabus.

P.V. Navaneethakrishnan, former director of Entrance Exams and Admissions, Anna University, who heads the AIMS team that prepared the question paper, said: “We have taken into account all the latest changes made by AIEEE and have created a paper that is very close to what an actual AIEEE paper would look like in terms of questions, length, difficulty etc. There are also a few out-of-the-ordinary questions intended to test the students’ preparation of concepts.”

The model examination was being conducted at the right time when students were near the peak of their preparation for the Board exams and wanted a clear idea of where they stood as far as professional entrance exams were concerned, N. Sethuraman, registrar, SRM University, said.

“Now they can concentrate on their Board exams and then come back to the last stretch of preparation for entrance exams knowing what their actual strengths and weaknesses are,” he added.

The papers will be evaluated in the next couple of days and a discussion session with experts going through each question in the paper conducted on January 11, Gita Prabhu, director, AIMS Education, said.

Providing details of the attendance at the exam, she said over 8,500 had registered in Chennai, while over 6,000 had registered in 10 other centres in Coimbatore, Salem, Erode, Tiruchi, Madurai, Tirunelveli, Neyveli, Vellore and Puducherry.

Actual attendance was expected to be around 65 per cent of those registered.

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