At NITK Surathkal, Saturdays are holidays for all the students. In the first year, timings depend upon your section. It has about 23 hours of classes every week. 

These can be: 

• Between 8 AM to 3 PM - Monday and Thursday.
• Between 8 AM to 3 PM - Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. 

The schedule can be altered as per the student’s convenience with the help of the class representatives (CRs). In the second year onwards, the schedule depends on the branch in which you belong. For example, the mining branch has 20 hours per week, CSE and ECE have 25-28 hours per week, while the mechanical department has around 35 hours per week. There are extra classes at the end of the trimester.

At NITK Trichy the college time is usually 8:30 AM - 3:10 PM. Sometimes, it may extend to 4-5 PM. There is a lunch break from 12:10 – 1:30 PM.

At MNNIT Allahabad the classes are held from Monday to Friday. Saturday and Sunday are holidays. In the first year, all students study general subjects from 9 AM – 5 PM. The lectures are 30 hours a week. In the second and the third year for the core subjects, the classes are 8 AM – 6 PM, i.e., 40 hours a week. The CSE/IT batch has only 25-30 hours per week. In the last year, classes are rarely held in the institute. The lectures are approximately 12-15 hours a week.

To compare two colleges (especially MBA) the parameters that should be considered - Industry connect; Alumni base; Academic levels; Course Curriculum; and Placements.

With respect to these parameters, NITIE is a great place to be due to the following reasons:

• Being in Mumbai, it gives the opportunity to interact with the companies, their head offices, industries, MSMEs, startups, etc. A batch of students went to the Godrej plant for a visit recently.
• It has a very strong alumni connection of around 6000 across the country and across the globe.
• The faculty members are indulged in a lot of research work and they work as consultants for many of the companies and they often include students in their work as well to provide them practical knowledge of the industry.
• Coming to the placements, NITIE has a placement rate of 100%. The highest package offered at NITIE is 44 LPA and the average package offered is 20.85 LPA

There are many more reputed colleges but NITIE is one of the best colleges for industrial engineering.

You can apply to get into ISI Kolkata in two ways each year. Usually, right after the GATE exam, they post an advertisement in the paper for admissions. 

After this, you can do the following:

• First, take the written test provided by the college for admission and if you crack it, you will qualify for the interview process.
• Secondly, if you have given GATE, you will be called directly for the interview if you have scored well.

But, make sure that you do well in the interview. This is the final qualifier for obtaining admission.

No, unfortunately, ISI Kolkata does not provide undergraduate courses on computer science. However, the proposal for starting B.Tech in computer science has been put forward but has not landed to any conclusion yet, and is being said that in the coming future this proposal may be accepted. 

For now, the present scenario of the undergraduate course in ISI Kolkata would just be B.Stat and B.Math. They both contain extensive teaching in computer programming as well as statistics. 

B.Math is a combination of computer science and pure mathematics and statistics. Whereas B.Stat contains lesser topics of computer science in their syllabus than B.Math.

The selection list of every top IIM is mutually exclusive. If you get shortlisted by any of the IIM, you have a 100% chance of changing it, the percentile in CAT wouldn't matter. The conversion depends upon how you perform in an interview and the assessment of it.

Over the years, the waitlist movement has been constant but not many get a call from these institutes and choose to do different things in their lives, but they also do not choose any other institute over it. 

For IIM LKI, waitlist movement varies a lot due to the following reasons:

• The first might be the overlapping with ABC.
• The second could be the conversion of candidates to A or B but they might not have made it to the L/K/I.
• Third, only a few leave their seats to go for ABC in one attempt.

These factors sway each year and affect the WL movement. It is difficult for anyone to predict the waitlist for any of the IIMs.

Assuming you don’t have any preferences currently in joining any of the clubs at the college, let me help you out by being as lucid as possible. If you are primarily looking for fields like singing, dancing, or literature, clubs like Raaga, Nrityam, and Literati will be your default choices. Also, always keep in mind that the club management certificates you get in your senior years will always be useful in the future.

Now, here are some parameters you can consider before planning on joining any of the clubs at NIT Raipur:

• Learning/Passion: You should figure out what plan to gain from joining a particular club, how it will help you achieve your future goals. Additionally, do you feel good after joining the club? It should be able to help you gain confidence, build your abilities, hone them and also bring them out. If you are looking to be a journalist in the future, PMRC will be good for you. If you are looking at sports, you can go to Shaurya.

• Diversity: Make sure that the club you join is not biased towards a single department. This happened with the Innovation cell that includes mainly students from biomedical sciences who do not contribute at all to the point of the club. Some other clubs are dominated by CS/IT/EC/MME students which will not help your cause at all. Make sure that there is diversity in the club you join.

• Time Value: A few clubs like Technocracy, Samskruti, and E-Cell mainly focus on labor during fests. If you are a first-year student, they will exploit your eagerness to do things. While working during the fest is Technocracy and Samskruti’s job, E-cell was more about entrepreneurship. In other words, don’t work for a club till your interest are satisfied because some clubs will make you volunteer for them and won’t let you join till your second year.

In my opinion, some of the best clubs are NCC, NSS, PMRC, and Raaga. I-Cell, E-Cell, and Nrityam are not that great.

The preparation depends completely on you. Opting for coaching classes is not necessary to do well in your examination. I have friends who have cleared the exam without any coaching at all. 

You should rather choose to invest your time in the upcoming board exams. It will not only help establish a strong foundation but will help you ace your personal interview. You should also focus on every subject, especially mathematics.

The reason why you should concentrate more on mathematics is that a reasonable amount of the aptitude test contains questions on mathematical ability. It needs more practice because the pattern of the questions cannot be determined. You must become compatible with the subject so as to get to the PI round. 

Following your boards, you should start reading newspaper articles, to stay updated with current affairs. This will help you in the PI session. It will also enhance your English communication skills. You can fetch the sample papers of the same on the website of the institute.