My Profile: Fresher, 9/8/8 Academics, Graduation in Computer Application.

There were two panelists and one of them was from a tech background. My interview started with a question about my introduction. Since I was a BCA graduate, my follow up questions were mostly like: Why is python widely used in the companies? Why do companies prefer Python over JAVA and C++? What is a List and a Queue? Basically, if you are a fresher, you should be well versed with the syllabus of your graduation. Later, I belonged to Jalandhar, so the rest of my questions were: Give me one USP of Jalandhar? What is Jalandhar famous for? Few of the most prominent questions asked to me were: Why MBA after BCA? Why not MCA?

So, I suggest all the students should at least prepare their syllabus from the graduation, thoroughly research about their city, state and about their interests, and must be very clear with the goals for pursuing an MBA.

At IIM Sirmaur and for that matter, in most IIMs, a following sample structure of grading is followed: - 

Component	Marks
End Term	25
Mid Term	15
Group Projects	30
Assignments/Quizzes	20
Class Participation	10
Total	100

Please note that the marking scheme varies from faculty to faculty but the above mentioned components are the most used components used by the faculties to award marks to the students. Sometimes, when more than one faculty member teaches a course, the marking scheme splits into two or three and individual professors will have an individual marking scheme with the respect to the total marks bifurcated between the faculty members.

To be honest, it requires more effort by the student to fail a course than to pass a course. The reason being that a majority part of the grading system is mostly qualitative. This means that if a student completes his assignments, takes part in his group projects and actively participates in a lecture will never fail a subject. The term exams constitute very less and even if a student scores a 0 in his term exams, provided he is an active participant in the rest of the grading schemes, will still not receive even a D. The students suffer mostly because of the lack of enough attendance (which leads to a grade drop) and lack of listening and participation in a course.

IIM Sirmaur like most B-schools follow a relative grading. However, each student is required to score an overall 35 marks out of 100 at the end of the course. The grading system varies from faculty to faculty and is relative to the highest marks scored in the course. If a student is below 35 marks, he is considered a failure and awarded an F in the course. A student securing 2 Fs in a year is required to repeat the year. A student securing D, which is basically the lowest grade offered to a student based on the grading scheme, can have utmost 2 Ds in one year. A 3rd D will mean a repeat year. However, Ds are rarely awarded while Fs are common amongst the students.

All the exams are practical application based where almost every exam has a case-study and certain questions are asked on the respective case study. The student is required to read the case study in a period of 2.5 - 3 hours and simultaneously answer the questions asked on the case-study. The questions asked are mostly strategy and analysis based and the exams are usually open book. The students are required to use theoretical knowledge and use it to answer the questions within the stipulated time.

VIT offers BTech courses in around 20 specializations. Some of the popular specializations at VIT for BTech courses are AI, Cyber Security, ML, CSE, etc. The BTech fees is divided into 2 groups which is as follows.

Group A – BTech (Civil, Electrical & Electronics Engineering, and Fashion Technology)

Parameter	Fees
Tuition Fees (Per Annum)	INR 1,73,000
Caution Deposit (Refundable) (One time payment)	INR 3,000
Total Fees	INR 1,76,000

Group B- All Other BTech Specializations

Parameter	Fees
Tuition Fees (Per Annum)	INR 1,95,000
Caution Deposit (Refundable) (One time payment)	INR 3,000
Total Fees	INR 1,98,000

No, VIT Vellore does not offer BTech Admission directly. You must compulsorily appear for the VITEEE to seek VIT Vellore BTech Admissions. To be eligible for VIT Vellore BTech Admission, you must have completed your 10+2 from the Science stream with a minimum of 55% marks. You must have a rank below below one lakh to participate in the VITEEE counselling. You will be allotted a seat as per your rank. The tentative VITEEE Seat Matrix for some of the most popular BTech courses at VIT Vellore is given below.

Course	Seats
BTech CSE	1560
BTech (Electronics and Communication Engineering)	720
BTech (Mechanical Engineering)	720
BTech (Information Technology)	360
BTech Electronics Engineering	300
BTech CSE + Information Security	240
BTech Civil Engineering	60
BTech Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering	120
BTech Chemical Engineering	120
BTech CSE and Business Systems	180
BTech CSE + Data Science	180
BTech Civil Engineering	180
BTech Biotechnology	180

According to the previous year’s VIT Vellore cutoff category-wise, you can get a seat in VIT Vellore in the CSE branch as you have rank under 27,000. You fall under category 4 based on the previous year’s cutoff.

Campus	Program	Category 1	Category 2	Category 3	Category 4	Category 5
VIT Vellore	CSE	950	3500	19000	22000	25500
	CSE with specialisations	2800	9000	23000	27000	31000
VIT Chennai	CSE	8000	14000	25000	29000	34000
	CSE with specialisations	11500	20500	26000	32000	42000

VIT Vellore has one of the best placement records. With a rank of 11 in the NIRF 2023, graduates from VIT Vellore have been receiving several placement offers from top recruiting companies. In the last 2 years VIT Vellore students also backed up packages of more than INR 1 Crore. The average package usually ranges between INR 9 - 10 LPA. There are more than 900+ companies who visit and offer job opportunities to students at VIT Vellore. The placement stats for the previous year are given below. 

• Companies such as Amazon, Deloitte, TCS, microsoft visit the VIT Vellore during campus placements
• More than 9000 students backed placements during 2023
• There were approximately 904 companies at the VIT Vellore Placement 

VIT Vellore has not officially announced any date for the release of the VITEEE 2024 cutoff. You can check the expected VITEEE cutoff based on the last year’s data here. The closing rank is considered the cutoff. VIT Vellore assigns the percentile rank to candidates based on their rank. The following factors are considered while deciding the VITEEE cutoff:

• The total number of candidates who appeared in VITEEE exam
• Number of qualified candidates for VITEEE exam
• Highest marks obtained by the candidate in VITEEE exam
• Exam difficulty
• Seat intake

Particulars	Placements in 2023
Highest Package	INR 1.02 CPA
Average Package	INR 9.23 LPA
Number of Recruiters	900+
Top Recruiters	TCS, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Adobe, Amazon etc

Based on the previous year's cutoff and closing ranks, the cutoff rank for the CSE branch is 8,000 and the ECE branch is 16,000. VITEEE 2024 cutoffs will be published separately for each engineering branch. Candidates with a score of 118 or higher would most likely be put in the 1-250 range. Candidates with marks of less than 31 are predicted to secure a ranking of 20,000 or lower.