That was a year which saw the great institute realign its working in tandem with the new normal.

Worth mentioning one among IIT Guwahati achievements is the fact that institute worked really hard to overcome challenges posed by COVID-19.

Among the IIT Guwahati achievements, innovations to tackle COVID-19 indeed stood a highlight.

Self check kiosks, multiple diagnostic kits, low cost UVC LED systems were among the innovations churned out at IIT Guwahati.

Academic
Physical learning came to a grinding halt across educational institutions in India, IIT Guwahati was not an exception.

However, worth noting was the fact that institution took to virtual learning to ensure the process of regular teaching receives no disruption.

The learning did not stay restricted to regular academics alone, it also focused on addressing mental health issues which comprised conducting online counselling and yoga classes.

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Needless to say, this stood a remarkable one in the list of IIT Guwahati achievements.

During the pandemic, IIT Guwahati through E&ICT Academy has enabled the scientific community by organising online courses (both short term and long duration), free three month long online summer internships, interactive sessions and webinars.

IIT Guwahati achievements on the academic front are no less splendid.

The annual progress seminars, synopsis and viva-voce examinations of PhD students are also being conducted in an online mode to continuously monitor their progress and to ensure that these uncertainties do not delay their career growth.

Convocation
The next worthy tale in the long list of IIT Guwahati achievements was on convocation.

COVID-19 situation did leave little room for a grand physical convocation. However, that did not dampen the spirit at the institution.

IIT Guwahati conducted convocation on a virtual mode which was indeed impressive. This will be a worthy one among the IIT Guwahati achievements, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the convocation.

Prime Minister said pandemic has changed the way convocation is conducted. But still it is as special as it was before. I congratulate students for their bright future.

The future of the nation is in what youth think today. Your dreams will shape the reality of India in the future. This is time for you to be Future-Fit and Future-Ready, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Over 1803 students received degrees during the convocation.

It has been providing scientific and technical support.

Worthy point in IIT Guwahati achievements on the innovation front is that it involved itself completely for developing life saving equipment for Assam State and Guwahati Medical College and Hospital.

Since the initial days of COVID19 outbreak, IIT Guwahati has prepared hand sanitizers at its various departments and academic centres for public distribution.

Couple of remarkable IIT Guwahati achievements on research and innovation front are:

· Development of low-cost UVC LED system to disinfect areas amid COVID-19

· Development of affordable antiviral/antibacterial spray-based coating for Personal Protective Equipment to prevent spread of infection

· Development of 3D Printed Ear Guard for Comfortable Use of Face Masks by Healthcare Workers

· Data-driven assessment of COVID-19 situation in India by IIT Guwahati in collaboration with Duke-NUS

· Designing and development of low-cost ventilators

· Designing and development of low-cost intubation boxes

· Development of contactless mobile application for safe air travel

· Development of Low-cost heat-based Sanitizer Trunk

· Development of Injection Mould for mass manufacturing of Face Shield

· Development of Disinfectant Tunnel

· Collaboration with Hester Biosciences Limited to develop vaccine against COVID-19

· IIT Guwahati alumni develops and deploys drones for spraying disinfectant in public spaces to prevent Coronavirus.

The drones can also be equipped as Medical Delivery Drone and Thermal Imaging drones.

· IIT Guwahati joined hands with RR Animal Healthcare and supplied lakhs of ICMR approved VTM kits, RNA isolation kits to National Health Mission, Assam and across the country and have also developed RT-PCR kits very soon.

Rapid antigen kits have also been developed by the institute to help the cause of Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan, a first for any educational institute.

The impressive list of IIT Guwahati achievements did not end there when it comes to research and innovation.

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Researchers from IIT Guwahati and the Duke-NUS Medical School of Singapore, have used data science models to analyse and predict the total number of COVID19 infected people for different states in India.

They have considered the exponential, the logistic, and the Susceptible Infectious Susceptible (SIS) models, along with the model-free daily infection-rate (DIR) using open-source data.

Atleast a dozen companies have begun operation in the newly formed research park at IIT Guwahati resulting in multiple technology transfers, product development and MoU signing with these companies.

IIT Guwahati introduced for the first time a new programme, MS (Research) in E-mobility.

Due to the multidisciplinary nature of the curriculum, the programme is being jointly offered by the Departments of Electronics and Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from the upcoming academic year 2020-2021.

IIT Guwahati is also the first IIT to introduce a course on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 in the Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) curriculum from this academic year (2020-2021).

The course has been offered to all the second year B.Tech students as a compulsory course, to reorient the thinking of young and dynamic individuals towards the path of sustainable development.

Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the 17 SDGs, Dept of Humanities and Social Sciences, the nodal department for this course, has collaborated and pooled resources from eight other departments of the Institute to design and implement the course.

Faculty members from each of these departments will jointly conduct the course and will provide exposure to B.Tech students on the technological, economical, ecological and societal aspects of these 17 SDGs.

Computing
IIT Guwahati achievements in the field of computing also deserves a pat.

The institution collaborated with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) in Pune for establishing a supercomputing facility under National Supercomputing Mission.

Rankings
The goodwork at the insitution through out the year paid its result it took the esteem of the institution to an all time high only to get good ranks.

Highlight among IIT Guwahati achievements was when various rating systems gave this institute a good rank.

IIT Guwahati has been the only academic institution from India that occupied a place among the top 100 world universities – under 50 years of age – published by London based Times Higher Education (THE) in the year 2014 and continues to do this even today in various International Rankings.

That point among the IIT Guwahati achievements remains highly significant.

Along with older IITs and Delhi University, lIT Guwahati has also been ranked below 500 in the QS World ranking released recently and the only one to improve its ranking from the previous year.

IIT Guwahati achievements on the ranking front indeed remains impressive.

IIT Guwahati ranks 6th Overall, 5th in Chemistry, 9th in Physical Sciences, 18th in Earth and Environmental Science, 17th in Life Sciences and 350th Overall world rank as evaluated by Nature, the most reputed scientific research magazine.

What is special among the IIT Guwahati achievements is that the institute has one of the highest faculty to publication ratio of 4:5.

There is more to IIT Guwahati achievements on the ranking front.

IIT Guwahati achievements on the ranking front has yet another special point.

IIT Guwahati has been ranked 7th (Engineering and Overall) in the national institutional ranking (NIRF) framework conducted by MHRD in the year 2020.

The schedule to submit applications for JEE Advanced 2025 has been announced along with that of AAT 2025 registration,

Application process for AAT starts after result declaration of JEE Advanced. This year too, the trend is no different.

Who will conduct AAT 2025?

AAT 2025 will be conducted by IIT Kanpur and is expected to see a participation in impressive numbers. The same institution is conducting JEE Advanced 2025.

Details about the exam are available on the official website mentioned above. Students who pass AAT 2025 will be able to study BArch in IIT Roorkee, IIT Kharagpur and IIT (BHU) Varnasi.

Who can take up AAT 2025 registration?

Students who have passed JEE Advanced 2025 with required qualifying marks can take up AAT 2025 registration. Applying for JEE Advanced requires a pass in JEE Mains.

Candidates who have passed plus two with maths, physics and chemistry as subjects will be able to take up JEE Mains registration. The process to take up JEE Advanced AAT 2025 registration is online.

1. The URL has to be typed into the browser and the webpage has to be allowed to download.

2. Once the website is available, students should click the link for JEE Advanced AAT 2025 registration and enter JEE Advanced 2025 registration number, their date of birth, mobile number and email address.

3. Post providing the above details, applicants will be asked if they are interested in AAT. Students have to answer ‘Yes’ to take up JEE Advanced AAT 2025 registration.

4. Candidates have to provide the required information and choose the centers where they wish to write the exam and submit the form.

5. They will receive message indicating successful completion of JEE Advanced AAT 2025 registration.

The message has to be downloaded and a printout of it has to be taken and preserved for use in future. This could be of use during the admission process.

Website for JEE Advanced 2025/AAT 2025 Registration is Here

Exam pattern

Candidates who have completed JEE Advanced AAT 2025 registration must also know the exam pattern if they are to score good marks.

Those who have taken up AAT 2025 registration can take up the exam which will be held in offline mode, as a pen and paper mode test.

Candidates will have three hours time to answer all the questions. The medium of the test is English.

The sections in the question paper are – Imagination and aesthetic sensitivity, three dimensional perception, Geometrical drawing, Freehand drawing and Architectural Awareness.

Syllabus for AAT 2025

The next thing to do after completing AAT 2025 registration is focus on preparing for the test.

The subjects to be studied while preparing for AAT 2025 are mentioned below. Candidates can also refer the official website for more information on syllabus when the registration for the exam begins:

Geometrical Drawing

Exercises in geometrical drawing containing lines, angles, triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, circles, etc. Study of plan (top view), elevation (front or side views) of simple solid objects like prisms, cones, cylinders, cubes, splayed surface holders, etc.

Freehand Drawing

This would comprise of simple drawing depicting the total object in its right form and proportion, surface texture, relative location and details of its component parts in appropriate scale.

Common domestic or day-to-day life usable objects like furniture, equipment, etc., from memory.

Three dimension perception

Understanding and appreciation of three-dimensional forms with building elements, colour, volume and orientation. Visualization through structuring objects in memory.

Architectural Awareness

General interest and awareness of famous architectural creations – both national and international, places and personalities (architects, designers, etc.) in the related domain.

Imagination and Aesthetic Sensitivity

Composition exercise with given elements. Context mapping.

Creativity check through innovative uncommon test with familiar objects. Sense of colour grouping or application.

The medium of the test is English. The sections in the question paper are – Imagination and aesthetic sensitivity, three dimensional perception, Geometrical drawing, Freehand drawing and Architectural Awareness.

The admit cards obtained for JEE Advanced 2025 can also be used to gain entry into the test centers for AAT 2024.

Point to remember

Candidates can visit the official website of JEE Advanced exam for more information on JEE Advanced AAT 2025 registration and other related topics.

The students have to quickly take up the AAT 2025 registration as the time left would be very short.

Like JEE Advanced exam where the registration is open for a longer duration, that of AAT 2025 registration is open for only a short period.

The details about AAT 2025 registration provided above are for general understanding purpose of the students.

There could be some changes in the exam, students can visit the official website of the exam at regular intervals to receive updates.

More information could be provided as the time for AAT 2025 registration would commence, till that time, students can refer other sources also.

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