One of my friends attended IIIT Nagpur. I got to know a little bit about the institute through him. Established in 2016, IIIT Nagpur has a small campus of its own. It is situated far away from VNIT Nagpur. Classroom teaching is done on the campus only. 

Students only visit the NIT campus for lab works and practicals, that too mostly on weekends. So, if you choose IIIT Nagpur, you won’t be able to enjoy the facilities of NIT campus. 

Disadvantages of New IIITs:

Another thing that you should keep in mind is that there are many disadvantages of being in the first batch for any institute. 

• For most of the newly established IIITs, the placement average is around only 50%. Even if you get placement, the salary package will be somewhere around 3 LPA. 
• Even if you are getting the facilities of NIT, it’s not permanent. Pretty soon the IIIT campus will be sifted to a temporary campus which will lack proper infrastructure and resources.

So, do your research properly and choose the option that suits you best. 

Earlier Vasavi college of Engineering was not regarded as a university. Only the ones that are considered as a university could offer their own degrees. Vasavi was an OU-affiliated college and did offer an OU degree. 

Since the year 2015, it became an autonomous/self-independent college and has stopped offering OU degrees. Colleges such as AFAIK, CBIT developed as an autonomous college before Vasavi and offers an OU degree.

In order to get into NITIE, you should have to clear the GATE cut-off for that year. 

The GATE cutoff generally remains around 729-760 for the General category and 420 to 550 for the reserved categories. NITIE recently released their GATE cutoff for 2021, which is as follows.

After that, you must prepare and ace the group discussion and interview, because they carry huge weightage. So, even if you have a low gate score or have just managed to clear the cut-off. You can get admission if you perform well in GD and PI. Similarly, students with a high gate score but low performance in GD and PI can get rejected.

So, be well prepared for all of it because you can get through with a balanced performance.

During the interview session at NITIE Mumbai your previous academic records are seen by the interviewers. They will ask for the reason regarding your backlog. Whether it was a result of carelessness or there was some genuine reason. 

They will check your basics and the flow of answering the question and they will also test your logical progress and aptitude. With an eligible score in the qualifying exam and in your degree, you can get into any program. The backlog won’t affect much if you have maintained a good graph for your result.

If in your previous academic records there is no backlog mentioned then there is no problem at all in case it is mentioned and in your case 10 backlogs they can choose to overlook as well as ask you about it. But the most important thing is, to tell the truth and also if you have a sufficient score then it won’t be a problem at all.

It is a risky option to drop a year for IPMAT because the acceptance rate is extremely low i.e. 0.7%. It would be better to keep other options as a backup in place.

You can start studying for other entrances as well or get enrolled for a course if you want to save a year. You can also leave and go for IPM a year later if you get selected. 

But, if you think that you are very serious about IPM, and you will do whatever it takes to get on by preparing rigorously after taking a drop for a year, and if you have a strong belief that you will get into it, then consider taking a drop.