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Jee Advanced Result 2020 and 2021 What is JEE Advanced? JEE Advanced  is the nation-wide entrance examination for the engineering admissions to the IITs (Indian Institute of Technology). It is conducted once every year with around 2 lakh candidates from all over the country (after qualifying JEE Mains). Students are allowed to attempt the exam in the year they pass the class 12 board exam, and the year after (with certain conditions). JEE Advanced 2020 Conducting a national exam in the middle of an international situation (the Covid-19 pandemic) was indeed difficult. It was postponed several times. 'Cancelling' and 'finding alternate ways to admit students' were some of the actively discussed topics.  Finally JEE Advanced was conducted on 27th September, 2020. After securing an All India Rank of 5634, I couldn't get any of the circuit branches (which I was looking for). I couldn't get into an IIT. However, I had taken a provisional admission for Computer Science...

AAP Mentor October 2021 - February 2022 What is AAP Mentorship? AAP stands for Academic Assistance Program. This program is a part of the BITS culture where the second year students volunteer to help the first year students academically. It includes clarifying doubts, providing solutions to numerical exercising, providing exam tips and sometimes conducting live sessions to reiterate important concept. My Inspiration Due to the 2020 pandemic, classes had started even before the admission where completed. I missed the orientation and a month or so of the classes. Being newly admitted, I knew no one and having it all online made it even harder to cover up my backlogs. It was difficult to know what the instructors expected of us in class. Engineering Graphics was a subject I found difficulty because some preparation was to be done before every class. I didn't know if the best way was to use the textbook, do the important exercises, watch the recorder lectures or something else.  As a f...

Postman conducts special sessions for BITS November 2021 What is postman? Postman is a tool used to easily fire API calls and manage workflows. It is beneficial to test the backend functionalities when the frontend is not ready. Postman helps to easily create and manage environments and the UX/UI makes it much even for more convenient for beginners. Postman's student program The classroom program helps s tudents to learn more about APIs and how to use the Postman features. There were three modules on the program. Fundamentals Get, Post, Delete, Patch What are Params? Building workflows Building an App Postman's program at BITS To promote API Literacy and API-First Principles amongst BITS students,  Postman , a BITS Alumnus startup turned Unicorn (and a Pioneer in API Industry), is offering an "API-based Programming Course" to all BITSians across all four campuses. The course shall be offered online and is free of cost! It shall give an oppor...