NTU Engineering Entrance Exam 2008
Filed Under (Arun Roy Classes, Education, Pix Sells, The Answer is 42) by Ankur on 19 April, 2008
Nanyang Technological University Entrance Exam 2008 was held on 16-17 April. Most Delhi folk had their centre right here, at the Sanskrit Vidyapeeth; but I had mine in Bangalore. Right after a not-so-good JEE, I left for Bangalore on 15th. Stayed with my cousin, who works there for Oracle. Traffic is as bad as ever, pollution levels not far behind.
The exams were held at National Public School, situated in B’lore’s National Games Village compound. Around 350 students gave the exam in B’lore - it was quite a Hogwartsian scene, with all 350 students sitting in this HUGE grand hall. It can be quite scary actually, being surrounded by all these kids wearing humongous tikas. Our invigilators - three of them - were from Singapore too (unlike in Delhi). Math and English exams were held on 16th April. Math was pretty good, sort of lengthy (some people said), but fairly easy. English as usual was mostly essay and essay-related stuff. Among the topics given for writing the essay were ‘Will Internet-based education ever replace formal face-to-face teaching’. Of course, I chose this one. There was a particular bit in the paper which had me burst into one of my bunny-like laughter fits, but I rather not talk about it publicly.
Day 2 was Physics, which saw a slight change in the pattern. Instead of a mix of subjective and objective questions, all the questions in our paper were objective. The catch was that we had to SHOW how we derived the answer too (otherwise, forget the marks). Physics was quite easy, got almost every question (except one, I think).
I feel that the English paper is going to be the differentiator here. Most of the students who gave the NTU exam (350 in B’lore, around 500 in Delhi) are mostly students who study (’mostly’, because people like me were giving too, who don’t) - so there really won’t BE that much much of a difference in overall score because of math and physics. English, with 85 marks out of 100 allotted to essay (40 marks) / essay-interpretation questions (45 marks), is going to be the paper where people *actually* gain / lose ground. I think my essay veered a bit on the technical aspects of the topic, so I’m praying (to Almighty Bob) that I don’t end up losing marks because of that.
One good thing (IMHO) about NTU’s entrance exam is that you’re not expected to give the chemistry paper, unless you choose a field like chemical engineering among your course choices. Really, that’s the way it should be.
Got some photos I took on the trip. Most of them are pretty miscellaneous / messianic, but you can browse through the album here.
Hey,
Hope you get thru NTU!
btw, did you go to the IIT Open House they had on 19th April? The whole Comp. Sc. dept were giving presentations and sample stuff related to Open Source, linux n much more. If you weren’t there, you might not have missed much cuz in the quest fr open source, #1 GQ, #2 None. So thats that
@Agrim: Thanks!
Yes, I’d heard about that open house, but I had the VIT exam, so I couldn’t go. 
Maybe some other time…
You went there?
I guess you must have been there…
yeah i did. twas fun, not for all. our skool took the kids from classes 10, 11, 12. Most of them got bored :O . Guess they didn’t visit the LUG - Linux users Group workshop they were having every hour.
@Agrim: Oh, sad for them. And yes, saw your blog.
Would love to see some interesting posts on the school quiz circuit in the future.
Wow! Great! I going for NTU Entrance Exam tis coming 2nd and 3rd May too. Anyway, all the best for your exam. Hopefully I manage to score well in the exam. OK, hope that we can meet in NTU. ^^
hey,found ur blog when i was searching for the ntu results.By the way do you have any idea so as to ahne the results will be out?
@Trinity: No idea, but their site says that it would be sometime in June.
oh…thank you
what a loser you are
i mean seriously…
hey did u get into ntu?what abt the sia-nol sdcholarship….is it worth it?with the 6 yr bond and stuff
@Needle: I certainly think SIA-NOL is worth it. You get assured placement in a good company. True, you might not be able to take the highest offer - but think about it. With an NTU degree and a few years of experience (plus the fact that you need to maintain a high GPA to keep the SIANOL scholarship), it means that at the end of those years your ‘market value’ - and how much of an important position you get, will increase a lot.
No I didn’t get through, because of my class 10th English marks. They, apparently, are using the entrance test previous results when tabulating the final rankings for the interview phase.
real sorry to hear that.so where u planning on going?any idea what they consider for the nanyang scholarship?coz i have my scholarship interview on da 7th
@Needle: See er, I wanted to do either aero or CS. In India, aero is only there in IITs (among reputed institutes, that is) - and CS has pretty high cutoffs. I could probably get CS through AIEEE, but not really very interested in that. So I was thinking of dropping a year, and then giving SAT and SAT 2, plus sitting for JEE next year.
Best of luck for the interview!
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hey how much did u get in eng in 10th cause even i got very low marks in ng but have scored well in sc n maths so are there ny chances of me getting shortlisted 4 the exam………….btw what is the difficulty level of the entrance exam is it CBSE based or some higher level
@212: Difficulty level of physics and math papers in NTU Entrance Exam is similar to that of the CBSE paper. More specifically, physics paper is MCQ, but you need to show the working too on how you arrived at your answer. In math, there might be a few topics like calculus which might require a little out-of-the-box thinking. I got 79 in English in 10th, which is way way lower than what most of the people I know who gave the NTU exam had.