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Volume-5 Issue-9
CONTENTS
March, 2010 (Monthly Magazine)

INDEX PAGE
NEXT MONTHS ATTRACTIONS

Regulars ..........
(cid:139) Key Concepts & Problem Solving strategy for IIT-JEE.

(cid:139) Know IIT-JEE With 15 Best Questions of IIT-JEE
NEWS ARTICLE 4
(cid:139) Challenging Problems in Physics, Chemistry & Maths
• Top medical honchos mull medical courses
(cid:139) Much more IIT-JEE News.
in IITs
(cid:139) Mock Test IIT-JEE Paper 1 & Paper II with Solution • Promise of IITs, from Mamata
(cid:139) Mock Test AIEEE with Solution
(cid:139) Mock Test BIT SAT with Solution IITian ON THE PATH OF SUCCESS 7
Mr. R. Madhavan

KNOW IIT-JEE 10
Previous IIT-JEE Question

Study Time........

DYNAMIC PHYSICS 17

Success Tips for the Month 8 -Challenging Problems [Set# 11]
Students’ Forum

• The difference between a successful P hysics Fundamentals
person and others is not a lack of strength, Matter Waves, Photo-electric Effect

not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack Thermal Expansion, Thermodynamics

of will.

CATALYST CHEMISTRY 32
• Footprints on the sands of time are not

made by sitting down.
Key Concept
• To succeed, we must first believe that we Purification of Organic Compounds
can. Boron & Carbon Family
Understanding: Inorganic Chemistry
• The secret of joy in work is contained in
one word - excellence. To know how to
do something well is to enjoy it. D ICEY MATHS 41

• Six essential qualities that are the key to M athematical Challenges
success: Sincerity, personal integrity, S tudents’ Forum
humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity. Key Concept

Definite integrals & Area under curves
• Continuous efforts - not strength or
Probability
intelligence - is the key to unlocking our

potential. Test Time ..........
• We can do anything we want to do if we

stick to it long enough. XTRAEDGE TEST SERIES 51
Mock Test IIT-JEE Paper-1 & Paper-2
• The path to success is to take massive,
Mock Test AIEEE
determined action.
Mock Test BIT SAT

SOLUTIONS 90
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Top medical honchos mull Human Resource in Health
medical courses in IITs (NCHRH) - as the overarching
regulatory body and will address
New Delhi: If the proposal of the
the medical personnel crunch in
Health secretary K Sujatha Rao
India.
comes into action, then the
premier technology institutes of An official from the health ministry
the country- the Indian Institutes said that, "We would like to know
of Technology (IITs) would soon the experts views in order to
see doctors passing out from the understand the feasibility of the

premier institute. proposal, if starting medical
The railway minister said she was
courses in IITs will boost medical
Rao, in order to gain the in talks with the HRD ministry and
education in India. Once we
consensus of various top honchos a memorandum of understanding
have a consensus of all the
from top ministries, directors of could be signed in a matter of
experts we would send it to the
medical institutes and chairmen of days.
Human Resource Development
medical councils, who have been
(HRD) Ministry for further Railways to sign with IIT-
invited in a meeting by the health
consideration." Kharagpur for research
secretary today, will determine
whether allowing institutes like In about three years, some IITs Kolkata : Indian Railways will sign a
IITs to teach medicine will "help like Kharagpur and Hyderabad are Memorandum of Understanding
medical education or dilute its working upon to start medical (MoU) with the Indian Institute
quality." Those called to attend schools in about three years. of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-K)
include directors of All India According to the Ministry officials, to promote research and
Institute of Medical Sciences a Memorandum of Understanding development in the organisation,
(AIIMS), PGI (Chandigarh), Sanjay (MoU) has been signed between Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee
Gandhi Post Graduate Institute IIT Kharagpur and University of said here on Wednesday.
(Lucknow), JIPMER, NIMHANS, California, San Diego, to set up a "We are going to sign a MoU
National Institute of hospital, with the IIT-K on February
Communicable Diseases, National which will offer graduate, 13, 2010, to promote research
Institute of Paramedical Sciences postgraduate, and research and development activities for the
and principal of CMC Vellore. This programmes in medicine and railways," Banerjee said after
will be the first major meeting to bio-medical engineering. inaugurating a computerised
reservation counter in southern
discuss the issue.
IIT Hyderabad has been part of Kolkata. "We may float
Along with eminent doctors like expressing its interest to offer MD scholarships for IIT-K students to
Dr Ranjit Roychoudhury, Dr Devi degrees in three years. HRD carry out research activities," she
Shetty, Dr Anupam Sibal and minister Kapil Sibal in a recent said.
cardiologist Dr K Srinath Reddy, meeting with IIT directors, had The minister announced two new
chairman of the Medical Council asked them to expand their trains for West Bengal. "Two new
and the Nursing Council of India courses. trains would be flagged off on
will also attend the meeting. February 13. One from Jhargram-
Promise of IITs, from
The main pointers of the meeting Purulia and another Medinipur-
Mamata
would be to discuss major issues: Jhargram." She said the railways
if MBBS programme can be Mamata Banerjee today promised would also provide its land for
introduced at IITs, replacing the a deal with the Union human setting up 372 diagnostic centres,
existing Medical Dental, Nursing resource development ministry to 44 first-class hospitals and 88
and Pharma Councils of India to build “schools, colleges and IITs” second-class hospitals across the
create the National Council for on railway land. country.
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"We'll provide land and the Union Indian scientists and a highly visible contributed a lot to the study of
Health Ministry will develop the outpost with highly professional the universe.
medical infrastructure on those environment and large pool of Dr. Rao, enumerated nine great
lands. We have already signed a young talent. challenges in space as food
MoU with the Union Health
The Indo-German Centre on security, energy security,
Ministry to develop such health
Computer Centre has been set up environmental security, resource
projects," Banerjee said. IANS
jointly by Department of Science security, space security, space
& Technology (Govt. of India) and transportation, search for life,
Indo-German Computer Centre
Max Planck Society of Germany exploration of the universe and
inaugurated at IIT Delhi
under the over-all aegis of Indo- colonisation of Mars.
An Indo-German Max Planck German S&T Cooperation "The per capita food productivity
Centre on Computer Science programme for an initial duration of India which is currently about
(IMPECS) was inaugurated at the of 5 years at a total cost of 1.7 ton/ ha should be increased to
Indian Institute of Technology, approximately Rs.12 crores from about 4 tons/ha by 2050 to meet
Delhi (IIT-D) here on Wednesday Indian side by DST and the growing food requirements.
by Mr. Prithviraj Chavan, Minister approximately 2 million Euros by This can be done by initiating
of Science & Technology and Earth Max Planck Society from German a new green revolution that
Sciences along with H.E. Mr. Horst side. requires the application of space
Koehler, President of the Federal
The concept of setting-up the technology along with biological
Republic of Germany.
Indo-German Centre on Computer inputs," he observed.
IMPECS will be engaged in Science in India was discussed "Space technology can be used for
collaborative basic research in during the visit of German better meteorological forecasting
Computer Science between Indian Chancellor to India in October which would help mitigate the
and German scientists and serve 2007. consequences of disasters," he
as a bridge between computer
Dr. T. Ramasami, Secretary, added.
scientific communities from both
sides. The Centre will act as a Department of Science & Dr. Rao stressed the importance
center of excellence for faculty Technology, Prof Peter Gruss, of energy security for industrial
and students from both sides. President Max Planck Society, expansion, agriculture and
Germany and Prof Surendra infrastructure growth.
The research areas envisaged Prasad, Director, Indian Institute
under the Indo-German Computer of Technology, Delhi were the He explained with figures that per
Centre would be Algorithms and guest of honour during the capita energy usage of India is far
Complexity, Database and inauguration function. lower than other developed and
Information Retrieval; Graphics developing nations like U.S (15
and Vision and Networking. 'Spectacular years ahead times more), EU (7.5 times more)
in space' - former ISRO and China (2.3 times more).
It would also engage researchers
from institutes including Tata chief "Space technology can play a
Institute of Fundamental Research, significant role in coping with
New Delhi: "The last 50 years of
Mumbai; Indian Institute of India's energy deficit by the better
space have been fantastic while
Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K); Indian utilisation of energy resources as
the next 50 years will be
Institute of Technology, Bombay well as by learning the effects of
spectacular," remarked Prof. U R
(IIT-B) and Indian Institute of global warming, carbon dioxide
Rao, former chairman ISRO,
Technology, Madras (IIT-M) - from emission and so on," he added.
delivering his lecture on
the Indian side and Max Planck "Challenges in Space" in the 97th Three students bag
Institute for informatics (MP-INF), Indian Science Congress. The Manmohan Singh scholarship
Saarbruecken from the German space age began with the launch at Cambridge
side. of Sputnik-I, 52 years ago from New Delhi: Three students from
The Centre is expected to benefit the former Soviet Union. Bangalore, Kolkata and Mumbai
both countries. The major benefits Since then, plenty of satellites have are set to receive the 2010
for India would be further been launched. The Cosmic Manmohan Singh scholarship to
strengthening of the research base Background Radiation Explorer fund their undergraduate studies
in Computer Science that would (COBE) launched in 1989, at the University of Cambridge.
develop expertise of highest confirmed the prediction made by For 2010, the scholarship will be
caliber needed by academia and the Big Bang theory. given to Neal Duggal from Mallya
industry. The Wilkinson Microwave Aditi International School,
Germany would benefit through Anisotropy Probe and recently Bangalore, Jesika Haria from
improved collaboration with leading launched Herschel and Plank have Dhirubhai Ambani International
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School, Mumbai, and Rudrajit As a kid he dreamt of becoming an might be repeated on a larger
Banerjee from The Cambridge engineer. Somehow he always scale in subsequent years. The
School, Kolkata. thought an engineer's job would offline version of the exam in
Neal Duggal and Jesika Haria have be very fascinating. He heard other 19 papers shall be
received conditional offers of about the IIT when he was in the conducted all over the country on
places at St John's College and 7th standard. Since then IIT was Feb 14, 2010.
Emmanuel College, Cambridge, to his aim. After clearing his 10th Graduate Aptitude test in
study for degrees in Economics class, he religiously worked Engineering (GATE) is an all India
and Engineering respectively, while towards cracking the IIT-Joint examination administered and
Rudrajit Banerjee has received an Entrance Examination. A rank of conducted jointly by Indian
unconditional offer to study 38 at the IIT-JEE meant a smooth Institute of Science and seven
Natural Sciences at Christ's entry into IIT-Bombay. Srikanth, Indian Institutes of Technology
College, Cambridge, the university who hails from Hyderabad, was on behalf of the National
said in a statement on Tuesday. always a topper in school. Coordination Board - GATE,
Mathematics and physics were his
The Manmohan Singh Under- Department of Higher Education,
favourite subjects, but he dreaded
graduate Scholarship programme Ministry of Human Resource
biology and chemistry.
was established in 2009 in honour Development (MHRD). Admission
of India's Prime Minister who World class university to to postgraduate programmes
graduated from the Cambridge be set up by Reliance with MHRD and some
varsity with a first class in other government scholarship/
To promote education and
Economics in the late 1950s. Singh assistanceship in engineering
research in India, the Reliance
was also awarded an honorary colleges/institutes is open to those
Group plans to set up a ‘world-
doctorate by the university in 2006. who qualify through GATE. GATE
class’ university in India. The
qualified candidates with
The scholarship is awarded to university, modeled on the lines of
Bachelor's degree in Engineering /
students who have received an American universities such as The
Technology / Architecture or
offer of a place at the University of University of Pennsylvania will be
master's degree in any branch of
Cambridge. Two of the three set up either in Delhi or Mumbai.
Science / Mathematics / Statistics /
places offered by University of
“It will be international in scale Computer Applications are eligible
Cambridge are conditional on
and in best practices, but with an for admission to master's /
these students achieving specific
Indian soul. doctoral program in Engineering /
grades. The scholarship programme
Technology / Architecture as well
will provide full funding, covering IITs successfully conduc-
as for doctoral programs in
fees and maintenance for under- ted GATE online in two
relevant branches of Science with
graduate study at the Cambridge. subjects
MHRD or other government
IANS New Delhi: Indian Institutes of scholarship/assistantship.
Srikanth Jagabathula, Technology at Bombay, Delhi,
Placements in full swing at
President of India gold Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur,
Madras, Roorkee and the Indian IITs
medal winner.
Institute of Science Bangalore In just over a month, around 70%
Internet connectivity in rural areas
successfully conducted online of the students at IIT have been
at cheap rates? Well, this could be
Graduate Aptitude Test in placed. The final placements began
a reality if Srikanth's dream comes
Engineering (GATE) 2010 for two on Dec 1, 2009 and will continue
true.
out of 21 papers yesterday. till March 2010. However, because
Meet Srikanth Jagabathula, IIT's Examinations in two subjects, of the good response from IT
pride, the President of India gold namely Textile Engineering and companies, the IITs hope that the
medal winner for 2005-06 for Fiber Science (TF), and Mining placements might be wrapped
scoring the highest marks among Engineering (MN) were conducted early. However, last year due to
all batches at Indian Institute of using computers by these economic slowdown, the IITs
Technology-Bombay. After an institutes. About 1700 candidates were able to place only 75-80 per
enviable stint at the IIT, Srikanth is were registered for these cent of their student pool. Many
all set to fly to the United States examinations which were students had to opt for higher
to pursue his studies at the conducted simultaneously in eight studies or jobs in teaching.
prestigious Massachusetts Institute cities over two shifts. Barclays Bank made the highest
of Technology. After five years he
This experiment was conducted in offer of Rs 22 lakh at IIT-
plans to come back to Indian to
GATE 2010 this year for the first Kharagpur for placement at
start his own communications
time and depending upon the Singapore. IIT-Roorkee also
company.
experience, online examination achieved around.
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Success Story

This article contains story of a person who get succeed after graduation from different IIT's

Mr. R. Madhavan

Mech anical Engineering, IIT Madras

R. Madhavan IITians who preferred to be different, I started my career at the Oil and Natural Gas
rather than get into a corporate rat race. One of the most Corporation (ONGC). My father refused to give me any
interesting themes at this year's Pan-IIT event was the money to start farming. So I asked the officials to let me
session on rural transformation. IITians who have chosen work at the offshore sites, on the rigs. The advantage was
an offbeat career hogged the limelight at the event.
that I could work on rigs for 14 days and then take 14
The star at the event was R Madhavan, an alumnus of
days off. I chose to work on the rigs for nine years,
IIT-Madras. This is Madhavan's success story as a
uninterrupted.
farmer. . .
After 4 years, I saved enough money to buy six acres of
PASSION FOR AGRICULTURE
land. I bought land at Chengelpet near Chennai. I chose
I had a passion for agriculture even when I was young. I that land because the plot had access to road and water.
don't know how my love for agriculture started. I only Back in 1989, a man in a pair of trousers aroused curiosity
know that I have always been a nature lover. I used to
among the farming community. That was not the image of
have a garden even when I was a teenager. So, from a
a farmer!
home garden, a kitchen garden, I gradually became a
farmer! My mother used to be very happy with the I became a full fledged farmer in 1993. It was tough in the
vegetables I grew. beginning. Nobody taught me how to farm. There was no
guidance from the gram sevaks or the University of
My family was against my ambition of becoming an
Agriculture. I ran from pillar to post but couldn't find a
agriculturist. So, I had to find a livelihood for myself. I
single scientist who could help me. I burnt my fingers. My
wrote IIT-JEE and got selected to study at the Indian
first crop was paddy and I produced 2 tonnes from the six
Institute of Technology, Madras. I enjoyed studying
acres of land, it was pathetic. When I lost all my money,
mechanical engineering. My intention was to transform
my father said I was stupid. I told him, it didn't matter as I
what I study into what I love; mechanisation of
farming. I felt the drudgery in farming is much more was learning. It was trial and error for me for three years.
than in any other industry, and no one had looked Until 1997, I was only experimenting by mingling various
into it. systems.
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LEARNING FROM ISRAEL In those days, communication was slow. Today, I can get
guidance from Dr Lakshmanan on Skype or Google Talk,
In 1996, I visited Israel because I had heard that they are
or through e-mail. I send him the picture of my problem
the best in water technology. Take the case of corn: they
and ask his guidance. In those days, it took time to
harvest 7 tonnes per acre whereas we produce less than a
communicate. There was no Internet or connectivity.
tonne. They harvest up to 200 tonnes of tomatoes,
That was why it took me four years to learn farming.
whereas here it is 6 tonnes, in similar area of land. I
Today, I would not have taken more than six months or
stayed in one of the kibbutz, which is a co-operative farm
even less to learn the trick!
for 15 days. I understood what we do is quite primitive. It
was an eye opener for me. They treat each plant as an THE FARMING CYCLE
industry. A plant producing one kilo of capsicum is an
I started crop rotation after 1997. In August, I start with
industry that has 1 kilo output. I learnt from them that we
paddy and it is harvested in December. I plant vegetables
abuse water. Drip irrigation is not only for saving water
in December itself and get the crops in February. After
but it enhances your plant productivity. We commonly
that, it is oil seeds like sesame and groundnut, which are
practice flood irrigation where they just pump water. As
drought-resistant, till May. During May, I go on trips to
per the 2005 statistics, instead of 1 litre, we use 750 litres
learn more about the craft. I come back in June-July and
of water.
start preparations on the land to get ready for August. In
DR. LAKSHMANAN 1999, I bought another four acres. My target is a net
income of Rs 100,000 per annum per acre. I have achieved
I met Dr Lakshmanan, a California-based NRI, who has
up to Rs 50,000.
been farming for the last 35 years on 50-60,000 acres of
land. He taught me farming over the last one decade. I sell my produce on my own. I have a jeep and bring what
Whatever little I have learnt, it is thanks to him. I knew a I produce to my house and sell from there. People know
farm would give me much better returns in terms of that I sell at home. I don't go through any middle man. I
money as well as happiness. Working for money and take paddy to the mill, hull it and sell it on my own. In the
working for happiness are different. I work and get future, I have plans to have a mill too. These days, people
happiness. What more do you need? tell me in advance that they need rice from me. I have no
problem selling my produce.
NO GUIDANCE IN INDIA
I said at one platform that we have to change the ENGINEERING HELPS IN FARMING
curriculum of the agricultural universities. What they
More than any other education, engineering helps in
teach the students is not how to farm, but how to draw
farming because toiling in the soil is only 20 per cent of
loans from a bank! What they learn cannot be
the work. About 80 per cent of farming needs engineering
transformed to reality or to the villages. The problem in
skills. Science is a must for any farming. I have developed a
the villages is not mentioned in the university. There is a
number of simple, farmer-friendly tools for farming areas
wide gap and it is getting worse.
like seeding, weeding, etc. as we don't have any tools for
MAKING PROFITS small farmers. If I have 200 acres of land, I can go for food
processing, etc. My next project is to lease land from the
After burning my fingers for four years, from 1997
small farmers for agriculture. The village will prosper with
onwards, I started making profits. Even though it took me
food processing industries coming there. My yield will also
four years, I did not lose hope. I knew this was my path
be more with more land.
ven though I didn't have any guidance from anyone.

Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world.

If you do so, you are insulting yourself. – Alen Strike
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