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Performance wars between the bike makers have always been at the helm of motorcycling since the dawn of motorcycles.

Recently Motorcycle News(MCN) held the “Sportsbike of The Year” test and listed the top 5 fastest bike in the world. However government has imposed some restriction on bike producer on its top speed

1 DUCATI  DESMOSEDICI Race Replica

1^st Place Goes to Ducati Desmosedici RR posted a top speed of 305.92 km/h –the fastest ever recorded by a production motorcycle.

Desmosedici RR is the road going version of Ducati’s GP9 MotoGP race bike. Desmosedici RR  features full carbon- fiber body work and available in two paint scheme.

2 APRILIA RSV4 FACTORY

Aprilia RSV4 took 2^nd Place recording a speed of 304.93 km/h it has a small frontal area which helps it to record such speed.

3 MV AGUSTA F4 R 312

3^rd place went to MV Agusta  with its F4 R 312 recording a top speed of 302.90 km/h.

4 SUZUKI GSXR1300 HAYABUSA

Suzuki GSXR 1300 Hayabusa comes at 4^th place with a top speed of 300.74 km/h.

5 KAWASAKI ZZR1400

The top 5 list was completed by Kawasaki ZZR 1400 with a top speed of 300.48 km/h.

Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal has come up with a innovative idea to reform school education system and is planning to scrap the Class 10 board examination.

Sibal is of the opinion that examination-based system causes trauma to both the parents and the students. He also felt that the time had come to restructure the system and make it less strssful for the students.

Sibal said that since the student continued in the same school even after Class 10, board exams were not required.

The Union HRD Ministry will consult and take into confidence the state education boards before taking a final decision.

Sibal also said it this ministry will do its best to implement the Yash Pal Committee report within 100 days.

                                                                Quantity vs Quality

I think most of us are well aware of the fact that quantity always inversely proportional to quality. Now you are thinking why I m writhing this actually I just to express my view about the continuously increasing number of seat in IIT’s. And opening of new IIT’s. 

   If we look into 4year earlier JEE exam i.e. JEE-2005 then there are around 3500 seats in 7 IIT’s and JEE merit will be till AIR 5000 and if you look into JEE-2009 there are around 7000 seats in 15 IIT’s and JEE has given merit up to AIR 10035 for admission to 15 IIT’s IT-BHU and ISM-Dhanbad, and JEE has also given extended merit list of around EML 43000 student. Those student listed in extended merit list will be eligible for admission to IISER, IIST’s, and some other college (complete list can be found at JEE-2009).

The increasing No. of seats in IIT’s reservation for 27% OBC category will increase the No. of seats up to 54% of the seats available in 2007. So it obvious that quality of education in IIT’s is decreasing. Everyone know that by just opening new IIT’s can’t give the IIT quality education it will just reduce the IIT brand value.

I am sure most of you all know that the JEE results were declared on 25-May-2009.

Recently the IITs have been declaring results in 2 categories the Main list of AIR's & an Extended Merit List to be used by some allied institutes like the IISER's, IIST, Shipping Institute...etc..  As per the prevailing definitions a student even in the EML is a "JEE Qualified" student...

Until last year the number of students placed in the EML used to be slightly more than the total seats put together in these allied institutes say aroud 1500 or so. Hence the number of EML students was abt 2000+.  There were no ranks given for the EML category...

On 25 May this time JEE website had the main AIR to be shown for the entered JEE registration number of a student and is he/she is placed in EML then it showed only EML as his/her result.

In Pune a significantly higher number of EML's were observed till 26-May-2009. This made me & Mr. M. Prakash (an eminent educationist & a fundoooo maths teacher) wonder how come Pune suddenly is having abt 200+(abt 10% of the total share) EML students this year. Yesterday we tried to research on this and we saw a new link on the official JEE website which gives the EML rank also & it says that the EML list this time is 6 times as long as the common merit list (10035 this time). A student of M. Prakash Academy bagged 26 rank in EML while the last one is some 43000+...In my opinion an EML of such a low rank is perhaps of no use. It just gives the students, parents, community a false impression that this student is a "JEE Qualified" student... This could be a further boon to the coaching industry.

Some questions we have in our minds are:-

Why this EML rank link was not existing (at least prominently) on the first day of the JEE results?

Will a student whose rank is EML40000+ benefit anything from this rank?

It surely benefits the commercial coaching classes in the country as everyone has big numbers of selections to advertise for them ( I smell something fishy here ??!!!)

This email is just to sound my personal views & to create awareness of somethings happening with the IIT/JEE system but are not very publicly talked/discussed.

Please circulate this further if you agree to even a little extent...

Hundreds of thousands of students aspiring to get into the prestigious Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) will now be answering the Common Admission Test (CAT) online from this year onwards.

The CAT, scores in which decide admission to the IIMs located in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kolkata, Indore, Kozhikode, Lucknow and Shillong, will now be a Computer Based Test (CBT), a statement issued by IIM-Bangalore said on Monday.

The CAT scores not only determine admission into the IIMs, but also to several other reputed management institutes. According to the statement, the test will be conducted in a window of about 10 days at the end of the year.

The institutes claim that the computer based CAT will be candidate-friendly, flexible in the selection of test date, ease registration process, provide better physical environment and test experience, and enhanced security in terms of biometric identification of candidates and video monitoring.

Coaching centres worried
But experts from training and coaching centres are worried about how this may affect the students' preparation.

"The content of the exam is not likely to be much different. Still, the fact that it will be on the computer will affect the preparation of students," Shiva Kumar of Career Launcher told IANS.

According to Kumar, students will have to prepare differently. "It is imperative that they put in more effort to take the test and practice papers online to make themselves comfortable with the CBT format."

Too many candidates
While about 95,000 candidates took the CAT in 2003, the number rose to about 250,000 in 2008, indicating a whopping 163 per cent rise.

According to the IIMs, this has resulted in severe strain on the administrative system of the institutes to conduct the CAT in its existing format.

"This year the number of MBA aspirants taking the test is likely to soar further, given that it's recession time," Kumar said.

IIMs have been conducting CAT in paper-and-pencil format for the last 33 years. Ninety percent of those who appear for the CAT are estimated to be proficient in working on computers.

"But they mostly use it for e-mailing or browsing the internet. Taking the test is a different thing altogether. Reading the comprehension portions or questions on screen and working out solutions will be entirely new to many," Kumar explained.

The coaching centers are also troubled that the format of questions is still unclear.

"Questions could appear one by one or all at once - this is unclear still," said an official of the Aakash Institutes.

"I am okay with this. My only concern is that with the CBT where will students do the paperwork? What about the extra sheets required for calculations?" asked Rahul Khanna, a banker, who will take the CAT this year.

Students will have to wait for clarifications as details about the computerised CAT will be available along with the CAT advertisement that will be released later this summer, the IIM-Bangalore statement said.