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Asked by Anonymous - Jun 15, 2024Hindi
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Hello Sir, My daughter has secured 94% in her cbse boards, with a total of 281 in pcm, shes secured 85 percentile in mains, 12000 rank in comedk and 18440 rank in kcet, she’s even applied for counselling in Tamil Nadu. As of now she’s got admission in VIT vellore for cs core under category5. Kindly advice what is her possibility of getting cs in a good college from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu or should it be better to take cs from VIT vellore?

Ans: Please prefer trying through COMEDK & KCET if your daughter gets Tier 2 Colleges. Shortlist around 10 colleges of Bengaluru, based on Opening & Closing Ranks of last year in COMEDK & KCET. Have TN Counselling as 2nd option as admission is purely based on 10+2 Score which only TN State Board Students have advantage and who have scored above 97% in TN Board for Top-ranked College. If your daughter is getting Category 5, ignore it. Target only through COMEDK & KCET. All The Best for Your Daughter.
Asked on - Jun 15, 2024 | Answered on Jun 15, 2024
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Thank you Sir????????
Ans: Any other doubt you have? Why question marks?
Asked on - Jun 18, 2024 | Answered on Jun 18, 2024
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Hello Sir, My daughter is taking her Bitsat on 27th, she is suppose fill her choices for the same. So kindly advise the campus order for choice filling. First choice is Pilani but which is best among Goa and Hyderabad. For the course we are opting the order as 1.cs, 2. Mathematics and computing, 3.Ece 4.electronics and instrumentation 5.electrical and electronics 6. MSc economics integrated 7. MSc mathematics integrated , (kindly advise if MSc integrated at bits should be fine to include for the choice filling ).
Ans: It is fine to include MSc for the Choice-Filling as a back-up. But prefer BTech over MSc. It is also advisable to AVOID depending only upon BITS. Have Plan B & Plan C as back-ups. Apply for other Universities / Colleges Also through JEE or Any other Entrance Exams which I hope Your Daughter would have appeared. Thanks for coming back.
Asked on - Jun 18, 2024 | Answered on Jun 19, 2024
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Thanks for your feedback sir! Also can u please advise among Goa or Hyderabad campus which would be better other than Pilani…
Ans: Hyderabad.
Asked on - Jun 28, 2024 | Answered on Jun 29, 2024
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Hello sir, my daughter has secured 220 at bitsat, what here possibilities getting into bits, kindly advice
Ans: Only MSc you can try. Engineering very difficult. But she can participate in Counselling Process.
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Hello, I am currently in Class 12 and preparing for JEE. I have not yet completed even 50% of the syllabus properly, but I aim to score around '110' marks. Could you suggest an effective strategy to achieve this? I know the target is relatively low, but I have category reservation, so it should be sufficient.
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Dear Sir/Madam, I am currently a 1st year UG student studying engineering in Sairam Engineering College, But there the lack of exposure and strict academics feels so rigid and I don't like it that. It's like they don't gaf about skills but just wants us to memorize things and score a good CGPA, the only skill they want is you to memorize things and pass, there's even special class for students who don't perform well in academics and it is compulsory for them to attend or else the student and his/her parents needs to face authorities who lashes out. My question is when did engineering became something that requires good academics instead of actual learning and skill set. In sairam they provides us a coding platform in which we need to gain the required points for each semester which is ridiculous cuz most of the students here just look at the solution to code instead of actual debugging. I am passionate about engineering so I want to learn and experiment things instead of just memorizing, so I actually consider dropping out and I want to give jee a try and maybe viteee , srmjeee But i heard some people say SRM may provide exposure but not that good in placements. I may not be excellent at studies but my marks are decent. So gimme some insights about SRM and recommend me other colleges/universities which are good at exposure
Ans: First — your frustration is valid

What you are experiencing at Sairam is not engineering, it is rote-based credential production.

“When did engineering become memorizing instead of learning?”

Sadly, this shift happened decades ago in most Tier-3 private colleges in India.

About “coding platforms & points” – your observation is sharp

You are absolutely right:

Mandatory coding points → students copy solutions

Copying ≠ learning

Debugging & thinking are missing

This is pseudo-skill education — it looks modern but produces shallow engineers.

The fact that you noticed this in 1st year already puts you ahead of 80% students.

Should you DROP OUT and prepare for JEE / VITEEE / SRMJEEE?

Although VIT/SRM is better than Sairam Engineering College, but you may face the same problem. You will not face this type of problem only in some top IITs, but getting seat in those IITs will be difficult.
Instead of dropping immediately, consider:

???? Strategy:

Stay enrolled (degree security)

Reduce emotional investment in college rules

Use:

GitHub

Open-source projects

Hackathons

Internships (remote)

Hardware / software self-projects

This way:

College = formality

Learning = self-driven

Risk = minimal

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