Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Percentiles
Subsequent to my post on JEE/GATE, people have questioned me whether data for all boards (average, top 10%, top 1%) etc are available. The answer is yes. This is the top 1% percentile cutoff for various boards in India. This is taken from the INSPIRE program of DST, India. These are for overall marks (not Physics, chemistry and Maths) but percentiles for science subjects can be generated. In some boards, having a cutoff at the 10 percentile will result in lower marks than the current cutoff of 60% marks.
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One more bit of information needs to be added lest it confuses. The maximum marks seem to be 500 in some boards and 600/700 in others for Class X and again there is variation for Class XII. It is also a well known observation that there has been inflation of marks in most board exams across India over the last few decades. This also has had a negative consequence.
Professor Madras
I have commented on this blog before as the new girl about to join IISc. Perhaps this is not the correct thread to ask this question, however, I was not sure if commenting on an older thread would draw your attention.
Does IISc have a comprehensive computer network in which software such as MATLAB, MS office, email and calendar etc are available for all to use. It looks like all email ids carry ernet as a tag, however, if this is restricted to email servers only. I ask this becasue I was wondering if faculty and students are required to purchase licenses individually for general purpose software, or if this comes with the computer that the school is supposed to provide to everyone.
Thanks
L.R.
Dear LR,
IISc has a central computer service named SERC which has very high end computers including parallel and supercomputers.
We have site licence of MS windows, MS office, Matlab, mathematica, gaussian, antivirus etc. I do not know what other general purpose software you require, but most of them are freeware.
Giridhar
One very basic assumption about this is the fairness of paper correction. I guess a few boards are very fair in their paper correction, however, a friend of mine from Bihar board had a lot of trouble to ensure that he passed his 12th despite getting a JEE Rank of 41. Further, there are cases of mismanagement in paper correction which need to be handled, for example, this year there was a case where the answer papers of some students in Maharashtra were lost !! [http://www.sakaaltimes.com/2009/03/15105103/HSC-examination-No-trace-of-m.html]. There is strong belief that correction of GATE and JEE papers are better handled compared to the correction of many state boards.
to ANONYMOUS new girl on the block:
The IISc network's existence is only notional. It is just a bad research tool that won't even allow you modern day bandwidths for searching and reading scholarly journals. The mathematical software that you mention are often available with critical (such as parallel and mutithreading) components missing. Most of all, you won't find these software on the most powerful machines in the SERC. SERC is only a notional supercomputer centre.
It has very low throughput as opposed to teraflop specs that come with names of the machines it has. For instance,the IBM Blue Gene in SERC has the critical IBM I/O peripheral missing. Without this Blue Gene does not perform as specified. A locally made patched up I/O is in service but obviously one does neither get the throughput nor the promised teraflops.
Moreover, none of the machines are suitable for development of new parallel computing applications since the MPI and threads are badly configured due to absence of proprietary technical information/components that could never be acquired either due to myopic foresight of big-wig "experts" or due to paucity of funds.
to ANONYMOUS new girl on the block:
IISc also does not have software like Windows and Office. You have real offices with windows but usage of MS office and windows in IISc is unheard of. I am sure that no one has heard of antivirus software in IISc
Dear LR,
Please do not believe the last anon comment. We do have MS Word, Office etc. We have a site licence for Norton Antivirus, Mathematica and Matlab. I use all the above softwares.
Thanks
Giridhar
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