IIT council Tessy Thomas & Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath nominated

Two prominent women scientists nominated to IIT apex council

According to sources till now there is no woman in the IIT council, the apex body of 16 IITs, but now HRD ministry has nominated two women scientists Tessy Thomas and Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath to the IIT council.

The main idea behind bringing woman to IIT council is to show that science is not the sole preserve of men.

About Tessy Thomas

Tessy Thomas is the first woman to head India’s missile programme. She is in charge of Agni-4 missile project of Defence Research Development Organization.

About Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath

Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath helped establish National Brain Research Centre. Her research on neurogenerative disorders can be used to develop disease-modifying therapies.

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Joint admission test for MSc  2015 application process will start on September  3rd 2014

• IIT Guwahati is the Organizing Institute for JAM 2015.
• JAM 2015 Examination will be conducted ONLINE only as a Computer Based Test (CBT) for all Test Papers.
• All the seven Test Papers of JAM 2015 will be of fully objective type, with three different patterns of questions as follows:
1. Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) : Each MCQ type question has four choices out of which only one choice is the correct answer.
2. Multiple Select Questions (MSQ): Each MSQ type question is similar to MCQ but with a difference that there may be one or more than one choice(s) that are correct out of the four given choices.
3. Numerical Answer Type (NAT) Questions: For each NAT type question, the answer is a signed real number which needs to be entered using the virtual keypad on the monitor. No choices will be shown for these type of questions.
• All candidates have to apply only ONLINE.
• NO hardcopies of documents (except challan) are to be sent to the Organizing Institute. The documents (if applicable) are to be uploaded to the online application website only.
• No hardcopy of JAM 2015 score card will be sent to the JAM 2015 qualified candidates by the Organizing Institute. It can only be downloaded from JAM 2015 website