AeSI AMAeSI Results and some questions

As soon as I saw Himalya post announcing the AESI results, I downloaded the pdf of results. Seeing the numbers, the statistician in me was not able to resist playing with that data.

So with few tinkering and re grouping, I  tried answering these following questions i had in mind looking at the data.

1. What is the highest no Pass in any subject in section A and B?
2. What are the top 3 top scoring subjects in Section A ?
3. What are the top 3 top scoring subjects in Section B ?
4. What are the top 3 low scoring subject in Section A ?
5. What are the top 3 low scoring subject in Section B ?
6. Avionic 1 or 2 which one is more scoring?
7. Propulsion 1 or Propulsion 2 which one scores more ?
8. Which elective subject is most and least scoring?
9. What are the top scores of each subject?
10. Which subject gets most borderline score in section A/Section B ?
11. Which subjects are easy and scoring?

Before you look at the data, some usage explanation.

• Max Mark is maximum marks score in that subject
• 75% got this means that 75% of the students who appeared in that paper scored more than this.
• % of 50 represents the percentage of students of total appeared who got just 50, the minimum score to pass.
• No of pass is the number of students who cleared the subject.

Top scoring subjects in Section A	max marks	75 % got this	% of 50	no of pass
STRENGTH OF MATERIALS	91	65.3	20.31%	128
ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS	87	63.0	23.47%	98
ENGINEERING DRAWING AND DESIGN	79	61.0	25.17%	143
APPLIED MATHEMATICS – I	97	61.0	31.82%	110

Applied Math 1 and Strength of Material got the top marks

For me top scoring means not the top marks but the subject that 75% of students got high marks.

 

Low scoring Subjects in Section A	max marks	75 % got this	% of 50	no of pass
MICROPROCESSOR AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING	56	53	53.42%	73
INTRODUCTION TO AERONAUTICS	76	56	38.04%	92
FLUID MECHANICS	81	57.5	35.71%	70
WORKSHOP TECHNOLOGY	72	59	24.48%	143

MICROPROCESSOR AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING  got the lowest score and more than 53% of students who appeared got just 50.

 

Most Popular Elective subject	Number
GAS DYNAMICS	124
PRINCIPLES OF HELICOPTER ENGINEERING	3
CAD - CAM	3
AIR NAVIGATION	1
COMPOSITE MATERIALS	1

 

Most scoring Elective	max marks	75 % got this	% of 50	no of pass
CAD - CAM	84	83	0.00%	3
PRINCIPLES OF HELICOPTER ENGINEERING	71	64.5	0.00%	3
GAS DYNAMICS	90	64	15.32%	124

Gas dynamics maybe the most popular elective, but CAD-CAM is the highest scorer. Minimum score is close to 80.

 

Top scoring subjects in Section B	max marks	75 % got this	% of 50	no of pass
APPLIED MATHEMATICS – II	94	79	4.90%	143
AIRCRAFT INSTRUMENTS	79	69	3.45%	29
AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES – II	86	67	8.91%	101
AERODYNAMICS	81	66.5	8.39%	143
AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES – I	84	65	9.90%	101

APPLIED MATHEMATICS – II is the top scorers in section B.  Top marks close to 80. And i am happy to see that the core subjects of Aeronautics feature in the top scorers

 

Low scoring Subjects in Section B	max marks	75 % got this	% of 50	no of pass
PROPULSION – I	65	50	87.50%	40
AIRCRAFT MATERIALS	53	52.25	25.00%	4
AVIONICS – II	66	56	16.67%	24
PROPULSION – II	68	57	14.58%	48
AIRWORTHINESS AND AIR REGULATIONS	59	58.5	0.00%	2

Propulsion 1 is the lowest scorer. 87% of those who appeared got 50.
Sad to see Propulsion, my stream in the top 5 low scorers.

 

Most Popular Subjects of Section B	Number of pass
AERODYNAMICS	143
APPLIED MATHEMATICS – II	143
MANAGEMENT OF SYSTEMS	140
AIRCRAFT DESIGN	123
AIRPLANE PERFORMANCE, STABILITY & CONTROL	117
AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES – I	101
AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES – II	101

 

Well as you can see i haven't answered all question, that's  listed above. Well that your task, if you are inquisitive, here’s the data.

 

subjects	quartile25	quartile75	count50	mean	count	countmax	max	section	Percent%50
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING	50.00	60.00	106	55.61	308	1	84.00	secA	34.42%
WORKSHOP TECHNOLOGY	51.00	59.00	35	55.81	143	1	72.00	secA	24.48%
FLUID MECHANICS	50.00	57.50	25	54.94	70	1	81.00	secA	35.71%
MICROPROCESSOR AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING	50.00	53.00	39	51.51	73	3	56.00	secA	53.42%
ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS	51.00	63.00	23	58.28	98	1	87.00	secA	23.47%
ENGINEERING DRAWING AND DESIGN	51.50	61.00	36	57.71	143	1	79.00	secA	25.17%
BASIC ELECTRONICS	51.00	59.00	41	56.47	143	1	90.00	secA	28.67%
APPLIED MATHEMATICS – I	50.00	61.00	35	56.80	110	1	97.00	secA	31.82%
INTRODUCTION TO AERONAUTICS	50.00	56.00	35	54.11	92	1	76.00	secA	38.04%
STRENGTH OF MATERIALS	52.00	65.25	26	59.88	128	1	91.00	secA	20.31%
APPLIED MATHEMATICS – II	63.50	79.00	7	71.18	143	1	94.00	secB	4.90%
AERODYNAMICS	55.00	66.50	12	61.19	143	2	81.00	secB	8.39%
AIRPLANE PERFORMANCE, STABILITY & CONTROL	51.00	60.00	29	55.57	117	1	72.00	secB	24.79%
AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES – I	54.00	65.00	10	60.51	101	1	84.00	secB	9.90%
AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES – II	55.00	67.00	9	62.09	101	1	86.00	secB	8.91%
PROPULSION – I	50.00	50.00	35	50.98	40	1	65.00	secB	87.50%
PROPULSION – II	52.00	57.00	7	54.98	48	1	68.00	secB	14.58%
MANAGEMENT OF SYSTEMS	53.00	65.00	19	59.41	140	1	78.00	secB	13.57%
AVIONICS – I	54.00	61.00	2	58.17	29	2	72.00	secB	6.90%
AVIONICS – II	51.75	56.00	4	54.67	24	1	66.00	secB	16.67%
AIRCRAFT INSTRUMENTS	58.00	69.00	1	63.86	29	1	79.00	secB	3.45%
AIRCRAFT MATERIALS	51.50	52.25	1	51.75	4	1	53.00	secB	25.00%
AIRCRAFT PRODUTION	64.00	64.00	0	64.00	1	1	64.00	secB	0.00%
CONTROL THEORY AND PRACTICE	50.00	65.00	4	57.33	9	2	68.00	secB	44.44%
AIRCRAFT GENERAL SYSTEMS	58.00	64.00	2	61.22	18	1	82.00	secB	11.11%
AIRCRAFT DESIGN	53.00	65.00	1	60.31	123	1	83.00	secB	0.81%
AIRWORTHINESS AND AIR REGULATIONS	57.50	58.50	0	58.00	2	1	59.00	secB	0.00%
MAINTENANCE OF AIRFRAME AND SYSTEMS	54.00	61.00	0	57.80	5	1	65.00	secB	0.00%
MAINTENANCE OF POWERPLANT AND SYSTEMS	0.00	0.00	0	0.00	1	1	0.00	secB	0.00%
MAINTENANCE OF RADIO AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS	51.50	61.75	3	57.64	22	1	70.00	secB	13.64%
PRODUCTION PLANNING AND CONTROL	59.00	61.00	0	60.00	2	1	62.00	secB	0.00%
PRINCIPLES OF HELICOPTER ENGINEERING	57.00	64.50	0	61.67	3	1	71.00	Elective	0.00%
GAS DYNAMICS	53.00	64.00	19	59.23	124	1	90.00	Elective	15.32%
CAD - CAM	79.00	83.00	0	80.67	3	1	84.00	Elective	0.00%
AIR NAVIGATION	0.00	0.00	0	0.00	1	1	0.00	Elective	0.00%
COMPOSITE MATERIALS	0.00	0.00	0	0.00	1	1	0.00	Elective	0.00%

Four super simple tricks to help you in your interview.

I shouldn't call them tricks, they are just techniques that anyone can apply to get the maximum out of the interview.

Talk in statements. When asked to talk about yourself and other personal questions, best way to answer is talk in statement. State the facts without any reason or pluff attached to it. think bullet points and state them as that.

For technical questions. Think satellite. Give a general answer first and then go to the specific. For the technical question, get to the basics and built your answer from there. Interviewer will appreciate the thought process even if your answers slightly off mark.

Be good. Be good at one subject that the requirements expect you to be. By good I mean really know that subject. you should be so comfortable with that subject so that you can easily converse in that subject for at least 30 mins non stop. If you cannot, you are not good at that subject.

Be interesting. This is the toughest bit but its has the maximum impact. If you have a passion for something and you have created or done something that you can demonstrate convincingly, you will be interesting.

The good thing of being or thought of interesting is, you don't need to be interesting in only a specific domain or subject. It can be anything under the earth and if you can prove it independently, you can get that interstingness factor.

The first two can be acquired in a short time and effort, but three and four takes time and consistent effort. There is no shortcut. So get started today. Earlier you begin, the better.

Booming indian aerospace - tips so you don't miss the bus part-2

In this series i am talking about five tips that aesi graduates should do to be part of the aerospace boom that is happening in India. The global aerospace industry is looking at india and china as the engines of growth. So here's the second tip so that you don't left behind. This is the second tip for aesi graduates. Read the first tip here.


Second thing that an aesi graduate should realize is that your strength is your course and the study you did, so be the best in it. By being the best i mean that all the basic questions and topics of flights, propulsion, and aerodynamics should be at your fingertips. While in aesi, don't leave the principle of flights book. Have it as your constant companion. It covers most of the questions that you will face in interviews. So have your basics ready. This is what gururaj also said once.

Being proud of your degree is good but lacking of basis is serious disadvantage. So be strong in them. For a fresher and also for seasoned aesi graduates, the most common interview question will be on his or her favorite subject, so make one subject your favorite. By making i mean, delve into it and have the basics of that subjects in your finger tips,. As a propulsion engineer, mine favorite subject is thermodynamics and i have to be prepared to answer all the basic questions that can come up from this subject.

Don't make a big mistake in this. Capitalize on your strengths How to do this?

3 step plan that i can suggest and i personally use to stay updated in my basics of the subject mentioned above.

Use 30 minutes daily to read an aerospace topic, Read only the basics, like thermodynamics, basic aerodynamics, mach number and all that. Since you will be reading basic so 30 minus is sufficient. ASM folks can read asm subject basics.

Share your knowledge, answer questions in ouraesi and aesi groups. Put some different perspective of the topic you read and discuss of share an interesting or otherwise insight on the things you studied. Use the groups. They are all fellow aesi folks and they will appreciate and learn from it and in turn you will strengthen the topic in your mind.

Play around with an idea and toss it in different direction, apply in the things you see and do during the day. This will fix the data in your mind and your mind will be more receptive the next time you hear a term regarding the topics you read. For example, my most recent topic was torque. So whenever i am seeing things i am relating this topic.

Well this are the steps that one can use to keep his basics strong and keep them from rusting. Use your imagination. Its very powerful tool and if you can use it fairly its can take you higher than any thing you can think.


So to sum up, being prepared is the another thing that an AeSI graduate or student should be doing to catch the aerospace boom! The previous step instilled self confidence and this will show that the confidence is based on solid foundation. So keep your foundation strong!

Please give in your suggestions that i might have missed out in the comments.

Analysis of result june 2005

Someone very eloquently put it " Its cold, its calculating. There is
no grey. Its all black or white". She was talking about maths and
statistics. Well that 's the very thing that's attractive about them.
They give answers. Here are the answers, that i got from the analysis
of the results this time, which as you maybe aware i am in the habit
of doing it for the past semesters.

This analysis is my 6th one, and having the data's for the past years
have given a unique perspective to this analysis, as i have compared
them all together as you will see from the graphs.

For the benefit of all those like me who are more akin to figures and
graphs, i have added like last year the magic of excel graphs. Eye
pleasing and informative at the same time. So without much adieu
lets begin.

Section A

a. In section A, as always principal of flights has the lowest passing
percentage. With 7.36% passing that is 7.36 people passing out of 100
hundred who appeared for the exam.

b. Best performance for the last four semesters is of ED, Which has
46.37% pass out this time.

c. Fluids is the subject with most number of student appearing this
time in any subject of section a.

d. The subjects of Thermo, Maths-II, Solids and fluids had more than
1100 student appearing in each! This probably stems from the backlog
that gets created as the students fail in this subjects in previous
semester.

e. 18.125 out of 100 people who had appeared in any subject of section
A has cleared the subjects. This number is fairly constant for the
last semesters as seen from the trend line of

sec a.

f. Of all the semesters, June 2003 has the lowest pass out percentage
in Section A, highest being December 2002 semester.

g. If you look closely at the data, you will see that this is the
first time that any
subjects pass out in Section A has crossed more than 45% and subject
who broke the record is ED.

Section B

a. In propulsion stream, biggest shocker is VMD result which
previously always hovered along 80% pass out line, but this time it
had Nil passing percentage, with no one passing out of 35 who
appeared.

b. Propulsion two is the top scorer of this semester in propulsion
stream with 84.62% passing percentage. This subjects passing
percentage fairly remained close to this 80% line only dip was in June
2004, when it went below 40%!!

c. Math-III is the second best in prop stream, with close to 60+%
passing percentage and many above 70+ marks!!

d. In propulsion I, the passing percentage has declined from 55+% in
December 2002 to 48% this semester.

e. In all propulsion core subjects, propulsion III is always the one
with lowest pass outs and this perhaps explains the maximum number of
students that appeared for it this time in propulsion stream.

f. Structure one is the highest scorer in aerodynamics stream of
section B, with an all time high of 86.21% pass outs and the marks i
heard were generous, as one of my acquaintance got 93, highest ever
mark i have heard of

g. Vibration also made a good showing with 71.87% passing percentage.
This is highest for vibration in last 6 semesters.

h. Aerodynamics one was a shocker this time, as only 3 out of 52 who
appeared passed. Looking at the data, you Will learn that aeroone has
the distinction of being the subject with highest ever pass outs of
AeSI, which was in dec 2003, got 90.47% passed in this subject.

i. With an average of 56.87%, aerodynamics stream for the first time
has overtaken the passing percentage of propulsion stream, which for
this semester stands at its lowest 43.36%!!

j. Compared to all the passing percentages for last 6 semesters,
propulsion streams results this time were lowest.

Well, if this facts enlightens you, i am sure the graphs that follows
will add more to your understandings, so take a look.

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Someone asked me "why do you do it?" well i do it because it give
answers, nay stupid answer. I do it because i love doing it. Please
don't forget to send your "hate mails" i love receiving them, they
decorate my email!!! :)

enjoy
sukhbinder

ps: The graphics takes sometime to load if your connection is slow, be patient.

Don't escape it... A tip from Chennai Express

Pritesh wrote an email in OURAeSI and I think readers of this blog would benefit from reading it, so here is it unedited. 

Best way to escape from your problem is to face them.-Shah rukh khan in CHENNAI EXPRESS.

Yes ,its indeed true...

I had seen many students in AeSI who drop the subject once they failed in it and excuse they make is ,YAAR BAAR BAAR EK HI EK CHIJ PADHAKE PAK GAYA HU (i am bored by reading same and same things) but the fact is that they are escaping from that subject .

In my case whenever i had anysubject back i took it as a challenge and prepare in such a way that however hard the exam paper may come, i should not get less than 50 .at this time you have all ready basic concept of the subject .you just have to make it strong and on that u can easily can make the strong building so u can score in that subject .

In case suppose you had dropped that subject than u have to clear it at the end of ur section A or B .By the time you allready had forgotten your concepts so u need to study them again and grasp it.

My many of friends had written single paper for almost 4 to 8 times and they are now doing well and pursuing their masters from NITs/IITs.

You too can do it but don't escape from papers and face them.

NOTE: dar sabko lagata hai lekin dar ke aage jit hai...

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Now it's your turn. What do you think? Do you agree or disagree, post your comment.

Don't forget to thanks Pritesh!!

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Section B Aero Mechanical June 2010 results analysis

Is propulsion 1 is more difficult than propulsion 2? Which is the most difficult subject in Aero Mechanical stream? Which is the most mark getting subject in aero mechanical stream? which is better in terms of mark, aircraft structure one or two?

All this reveal in the two plots from the analysis of June 2010 results, So dig in..

The BoxPlot

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• Except P1 and P2, all subjects had highest marks in excess of 80!!
• AS2 with 91 got the highest marks of aeromechanical  stream.
• In P1, more than 50 % of the students got less than 52 marks as suggested by the median of P1.
• AERO has a median (the yellow triangle) of 64. It means more than 50% of the students has got more than 64 marks!!

 

The Stacked Column Chart

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• P1 is tougher than P2. No one got more than 70 in this subject. More than 90% of the students just got less than 60 marks in it.
• Aero has the highest number of students who got between 60 to 70 marks followed by APSC..
• Among AS1 and AS2 , AS2 is definitely gave more good marks, with some four students getting above 80 and one getting above 90.
• AM2,AERO,APSC,AS2,MS and AD are the subjects which has produced marks in above 80.
• Aero is the subject in which maximum people got marks between 70 to 80.
• P1 remains the lowest scoring subject in this stream followed by P2.
• Numbers in the box indicates the count of students in that band of marks.

 

All this reading and analysis will be waste if you are not taking any action.

Section B highlights of December 2009 AeSI results

Section B still has two categories Modified syllabus and unmodified syllabus, so first i will do a provide similar graphs as i did for section A subjects.

Count is the number of students that 

Aerodynamic design and testing and Advance strength of Materials (ASM) has the highest count. This highest pass outs are in this two subjects.

Average is the average of the marks that each of the subjects gathered. It gives and indication of how easy and difficult it is to score in a subject of section B

Average in Section B old syllabus is lower than section A. Maintenance of avionics has the highest marks while avionics 1 had just 50 as its highest.

Among aerodynamics, aerodynamics-2 is higher than aerodynamics 1. In propulsion, propulsion 3 leads while propulsion 1 is the lowest.

Average marks in propulsion subjects are less than 55%, much lower that core aerodynamics subjects.

 

Maximum marks obtained in each subject

 

Mathematics 3 tops with 93 marks. Those are good marks. thermodynamics topped for section A, ASM and aerodynamics 1 are close second.

In propulsion subjects 1 2 and 3 , highest marks is not even crossing 68 that was the lowest highest mark in any subject in section A new syllabus!!

 

Median

 

This one is new and not present in section a results but is important. Here’s how?

Median is the middle. In maintenance of avionics instruments, 50% of the people who pass got 81 or above marks.. See this statistics to know what marks you need to get to be well above 50% of the passing students.

As you can see many people just passed, as last few subjects in the above graph showing 50! The poor performance of propulsion is evident in this.

 

Standard deviation.

This one is new and not present in section a results but is important. Here’s how?

The higher the standard deviation, the higher the fluctuation. If we compare Sachin’s and Shewag’s younger days career for same period of time, we will notice that Sachin has low deviation while Shewag has high standard deviation. What this mean,  low standard deviation means its consistent. So sachin was much more consistent than Shewag!

Similarly here the subjects having low standard deviation means that the subjects consistent  average marks for those who passed the subject.

A zero deviation means the subject is consistent and most of the people got average marks.

Highly fluctuating subjects were... Mathematics 3, ASM, Aerodynamics 1 and VMD!! They produced results from that varied from 50 to the highest marks.

 

Well that's it for today. Hope you will find value in this number and will gain some additional insight on the numbers and will plan your studies with it.

 

Do let me know what do you think of this numbers and graphs.

Cheers. Section B un modified syllabus will be the next instalment.

 

Anyone have PDF of last semester’s results, i would love to compare the results.

Send Resumes For Planned Placement Drive

Hi All

As a social responsibility towards employment, AeSI Bangalore Branch in association with Society of Indian Aerospace Technologies and Industries (SIATI) , Aeromag Asia &  AeSI - Alumni Association is planning to organize a placement drive at CIT campus for Aerospace / Aviation sciences & Allied engineering branch students from AeSI Associate Membership Examination as well as from other AICTE approved institutions.

Inline with the AeSIAA's mission to promote welfare of AeSI students and graduates, AeSI Alumni Association invites resumes from all recent graduates of AeSI for short listing for this drive,

Please send your resumes to secretary.aesiaa@gmail.com with the following as the subject line.

Subject: [Stream][Overall Percentage][Year of Passing][Mobile no]

For example:

Subject: [Avionics][73%][2013][97123456]

Please send resume in doc Format.

Date : To Be Announced

Venue : Cambridge Institute of Technology , K.R. PURAM, BANGALORE,KARNATAKA 560036

Please Note: 

1. Any email without the correct subject and Resume will not be part of the drive.
   
2. Last date for sending the resume is 22nd March 2014 (Saturday)

Tips to send Job Application via email.

Market Leaders use BrassRing to accept Job Applications, however there are so many entry level companies which accept the Job Application through an email.

The common queries about this application process are :
- What should I write in an email, while sending Job Application ?
- What is the best way to send Job Application ?
- How to develop recruiter's interest in the profile ?
- What exactly does a company expect from a candidate ?
& the list goes on .... Isn't it ?

The first step is to spend time in understanding the company's profile through website. Make a note of it's current projects.

1- Subject of the email :
It helps recruiters & the system to filter profiles according to the job hence selecting relevant subject matters a lot.
> Mention the job code in the subject (if any)
> If you don't know the job code so use subject like "Job Application" etc.. 

2- Greetings & Salutation :
Always remember that First impression is the last impression. 
If you're interested so you can greet the recruiter as well. Example "Greetings of the day !"
Begin your email with "Dear Mr./Mrs. Last Name" and if you don't know the last name so you can use "Dear Recruitment Manager"
> Salutation is always used with the last name. 

3- Introduction :
Begin by stating what job you are applying for. Explain where you heard about the job, particularly if you heard about it from a contact associated with the company.
Briefly mention how your skills and experience match the company and/or position; this will give the employer a preview of the rest of your letter.
Example : 
If the company deals in Unmanned Air Vehicle & you've made a project on it during your academics so mention it. 
If it deals in Antenna & Navigation and you've scored good marks in the Section-B paper of Radio so mention it.
(Mentioning the skills of CFD while applying for a job of "Pilot" or "Avionics Technician" will never help you.)
> It's very necessary to mention Job specific skills & experience. 
   
4- Closing :
Restate how your skills make you a strong fit for the company and/or position. State that you would like to interview and/or discuss employment opportunities.
Example : 
Looking forward for your positive response and to shake hands with the future projects. 
Looking forward for your positive response and to be a part of team-My AeSI asap. 
Looking forward for your positive response and a long term career with Himalya Group.

Key Points to remember :

1. An email Job Application should be no more than one page long.
2. Use a professional font such as Times New Roman, Arial, or Calibri. The font size should be between 10 and 12 points.
3. It should be properly organized, formatted and spaced so it's readable and makes the best impression on the recruitment manager.
4. Attach a nicely crafted resume. (Resume differs from company to company. Always remember that mentioning relevant skills, experience, projects and achievements matter a lot)
5. Include your contact information at the end of the Job Application.

Cheers !

Advantages of Studying in Library!!

I remember when I was in standard II, my mom used to sit near me with her knitting, as I pretended to study. Then finding me day-dreaming and smiling at my imaginary adventures that I took while holding the book in my hand, she remarked. "Beta one hours of concentrated study is more than 6 hours of toil". Ignorant I was at that time, I came out of my reverie and mumbled the words on the book and within minutes was back with my plays in the imaginary world, plotting planning things I will do next on the playground. But Now as I began to write this I remember those words of mom and that is what a library gives you. A concentrated hour of study. So here are the advantages I got, saw as I spend my time in library last semester.


1. Its a silence zone. So no disturbance and everyone in and around the place knows that and keeps there conversations to minimum and low. So The greatest advantage of library is the silence that you may not get in your room. Sometime the room mates are talking, sometimes the CD player is on, sometime just conversations about movies or the opposite sex ( ;-) who can resist topics like that!) But in a library its silence Though not pin-drop silence as Mr. Modok, my chemistry lab assistant always wanted in his lab! But silent enough to hear the buzz of the overhead fan!

2. Second advantage is the studying atmosphere that you get there. Either they are empty or if filled everybody else will be studying and so you are always in the atmosphere of studies and this increases your concentration and even if you start getting distracted , a look at the next guy deeply immersed in the book in front of him gets you on track. And since minimum conversation is allowed there's none to comment on your "arre pata hai aaj wo dehi thi sarak par!!!" So you end up killing that damsel in your thoughts and come back to the book at hand.


3. In your room we stay half naked. [and in case of my roommate he is 90% naked and thank god he is not 100% :)] And when we sit to study, we give our legs and body the full freedom to loiter around while we struggle with the jet propulsion’s numerical or trying to grasp how a lathe works!!! So we always don't sit on proper chair and table and even if we start our studies there but eventually the pillow creeps under our head. So studying in library with its chair and table doesn't allow this and we have a concentrated and good postured study there.


4. What happens when you get some doubts in your room, You first check your notes, then maybe your book, and if all else fails you give a shout to your roommate [ though some lazy fellows like me use the last option first!! ;-)] And even then, if the problem is not solved you end up leaving that whole subject let alone the topic and maybe and most probably find yourself chatting with that friend of yours on that topic until you get out of it and get to other worldly things!! But in library, you have the vast reserves of books and if you don't find it in Anderson, get Caruthers, if not in Caruthers you can browse through Hutton etc. so The range of books increases your chances of clearing your doubts and even if someone is present to ask you being in library talk only the needful and it reduces the unnecessary talk that may start if it were not a library, so you have more effective study.

5. And being is library has one good advantage. If you feel bored or tired of one subject you can easily switch to the next subject. This is not always possible in rooms as once you get up, you loiter and converse more than that you will do in a library. Even if you get out of the library for a break It won't take as long as the break you might take at home. And in my experience, the rest period in library is 50%shorter and more effective than the room's.

Due to the presence of so many wide variety of books in the library, you may even relax with a non-subject book in which you have interest in. For myself I have relaxed myself so many times by reading model-building books in my library in between Andersons and Suttons!!!


So folks, library is not a rack of orderly kept books but much more and as mom would have said a single hour in library is worth 3 hours in room!! And what more, I know, my mom will be certainly happier reading this.

Interview tips from DRDO SET's actual interview

One the great thing about OURAeSI group, that aims to unite all the members of AeSI, is that the spirit of community is there and people share their experiences.

Back in 2003 tejas patel gave DRDO SET examination and passed it. After that he had his DRDO technical interview. Every one has that, what special about it?

After that he was generous enough to share his experience with us in the ouraesi club. Since the number of messages in yahoo groups gets buried under the layers of many messages, i am pasting it here with my remarks at the end so that they will from hence forth available via google search and can benefit more people.

Tejas patel wrote:

this is for the idea of the friends who r doing aesi.
my interview was on 1st of dec.
there were 13 guys who had came for the interview.
i dont know, but some of the people were saying that
they have called on the merit of written test--SET
2003.
the first 3(i.e.1st,2nd and 3rd of dec) days were for
general candidates followed by 2 days for obc's and
last one for obc and sc/st's.
for the kind information out of 13 present there 7
were from ganesh institute!(i.e.more than 50% to
say).namely in the order of calling,Tejas,Praveen
Bajpai,Puneet Gupta,Prashant Jha,Darshan Trivedi,Suraj
Chaurasia and Sinder.If any body of above persons
spelling if written wrong then its by mistake only.

My interview was more of a sort of introduction then
q&a.

during my interview there were 5 interviewers.2 were
IISc bangalore's professors.one was head
GTRE,bangalore.one was of DRDO lab in agra(i dont know
which).the chairman was from REC warangal.
the rest of the talk i will indicate who asked what.


the next some initial questions from chairman.

Chairman:first question was u have done ur aesi,where
u working while studying?
myself: no
C:then did u prepared ur self?
M:no.
C:then did u took guidance from somewhere?
M:i said yes.
C:where?
M:Ganesh Institute ,Chennai.
(for the next coming candidates he himself asked u r
also from ganesh institute?)
C:u havent done any practical.?
M:yes
C:where?
M:iit madras.
C:u r in first semester , u have 3 more semesters.out
of which 2 are practical.how will u join here?
M:i will request u to give me time to complete,or i
will take a break from m.tech and join here or i will
shift my project in drdo and complete the M.tech.
C:What if i dont give u time to complete the M.tech?
M:I will request u to give me time......
C:what shall i ask?
C:have u seen any wind tunnels?
M:yes.
C:where?
M:iit madras.
C:what type?
M:all the three subsonic,transonic and supersonic.
C:what is the test section range of supersonic
windtunnel in iit madras?
M:mach 2-2.5.(it depends,but to less complicate the
matters i gave this number)
C:wht is the area of the test section?
M:(i couldnt recall exactlyso i said )100mm*100mm.

then the professor from IISc took over.
Prof:which is ur favourite subject?
M:Gas dynamics
P:Ok.i ask u one question.
M:OK.
P:design a mach 3 supersonic cruise missile,with nose
l/d ratio of 1,middle lifting surface of l/d 10 and
tail lifting surface of l/d 5.
(I was quite confused to hear so high question )
M:is it blunt nose?
P:yes
(here i make a mistake)
M:this is missile why do u want to have lifting
surface?
ALL:that u decide u have to design.
(I showed something which was a missile but i dont
know whether it was what he was asking or something
different.but i suppose he wanted that only because he
didnt gave any comment)
P:show me the shock pattern.
(again i was confused what to do,what we have studied
is only bow shock and rest we dont know what happens
at back)
(Still drew something,he didnt commented so i
suppose..)
P:show me the location of CP?
M:give me the freestream pressure.
P:just tell me by ur idea where it will lie.
M:between mid and tail section.
P:why ?
M:because we are having shock (some explanation i gave
on paper by drawing ,and he was not satisfied)
P:OK,if i give u three CP's of nose,midsection and
tail section.can u find CP.
(I was thinking to tell him to say what we do in CMcg
way.that at cp the moment wont come.)
P:i dont want explanation.
M:yes
P:how?
(b4 i say something)
P:my last hint (zigma M/zigma L)
(b4 i start my word)
P:i dont want explanation.just tell me.
(b4 i start)
C:Ok leave it.

another prof of IISc.
P2:what is stress concentration factor?
(i had heard something like that but i couldnt recall
so i gave bluff)
M:max stress by average stress.
P2:draw an rectangular element,make a hole in
that,apply a tension load.
P2:where will be the max stress?
(b4 i can put my pencil on paper)
P2:on the edges of the circle?
M:yes.
P2:ok,u must have learned theory of elasticity.take an
element from that rectangular element.show me the
stress pattern.
(I showed something ,OK.I also know that it was wrong
but i was off by the missile question)
then came GTRE head:(he asked a simple question and i
made mistake)
G:take a rod and apply bending and torsion
simultaneous ly.what will be bending moment diagram?
G:will it be direct addition or direct subtraction?
M:its addition(that's my mistake)
G:direct?
M:no,some equivalent value.(i couldnt recall the
formula there which i would have dont atleast 100
times)

then came the agra heads turn
A:so u have seen the wind tunnel,what we do in wind
tunnel?
M:we test the model
A:how we will test,directly i can take a model and
test there?
M:no there should be dynamic similarity.(at that time
it could not recall kinematic similarity)
A:what will u equate?
M:reynolds no,and mach no in our cased.
A:and ..?
M:Froude no,but we dont give much preferrence to it.
A:that's what i wanted.
A:how will i test a LCA,if i have particular reynolds
no then how will u test it in wind tunnel?
M:we will match the reynolds no.
A:how?
M:suppose u have a one fifth model then vary other
parameters so that it remains same.
A:OK

then again it came with chairman.
C:u say u have worked on supersonic WT.
C:why dont we dont equate reynolds no there?

M:at high speed mach no i similarity is more important
than reynolds no similarity.
(this is probably the wrong answer)
C:ok if i want to increase the test section mach no
what should i do?
M:increase the area ratio.
C:will that be sufficient ?
M:other consideration will be the pressure,either
increase the total pressure or decrease the back
pressure.
C:ok what is area ratio?
M(I explained that)
C:what is throat area?
(i explained that also)
C:so can i increase the area in any way i like?
M :no
C:what if i put a cone?will it give me increase in
mach no?
M:no,it will have to be carefully designed
C:why?
M:otherwise that wont give isentropic flow.
C:have u heard about method of characteristics?
M:yes but i have not applied any where.
C:OK,thank u,u can go.


i know i had made lot of mistakes but this was my
first technical interview.so i am happy even if i dont
get it.i tried to perform well,but was baffled with
the first question.

any way the above is for others information so they
dont make mistakes.
tejas.

so this is the post of tejas, i have intentionally left the message intact to give you the flavor of the sitution there. First of all thanks to tejas for the candid and honest mail about the interview.

As mentioned in the earlier post, look from where most of the questions were triggered..

The fav subject is omni present and this is where the whole interview got its focus. See how different it would have been if the question tejas's answer was more related to a subject he knew a lot about. So the first lessons to learn is have your favorite subject ready. Let it be the subject that you know the most about and the subjects in which you are most confident.

Second thing that you might have noticed is that all other questions that are asked are from the replies that tejas was giving, so you see interviewee is the one who leads the interview. It is your words that triggers the questions, so keep them to the territories that is topics that you are confident about.

Since this is already a long post i'll discuss other points in some other post.

Waiting for aesi exam results read this inspiring email from Bishnujee

Are you waiting for the AeSI exams results. I think everyone who has given AeSIexams in June 2008 is waiting for them. A while back bishnujee mailed an inspiring email regarding this time. So i am re printing it here as it contains some solid advice that every AeSI students should keep in mind.

Many happy returns of the day. I know you guys must be waiting for your results anxiously at moment because AeSI results are around the corner. Just advise for you guys that if you pass the subject,get going with your next target and if you miss any subject,just forget that if you have appeared before in that subject and start as fresh.I know it too difficult to prepare again.Then AeSI Coursework is made like that and sometimes if you are unlucky you might get question on calculations from Rocket propulsion which you will struggle to locate in any book. I am aware of that. Hopefully this sort of error in question paper is supposed to be sorted out in future.

Also another thing I wish to inform you guys just when I advise you regarding studies or placement or how to go about doing with it in your career. Its only my personal experience and it upto you to follow it in your life or not. I advise based on my past experience since I did my AeSI ,after my X standard when I when I was still studying for XI,I appeared in Studentship Examination and got success with it in AeSI when I passed all 5 subjects at one go and still was in XI.So I didn't look back and went ahead with Section A where I had measure how much study was expected of me and I went ahead that time with passing Section A in June and December session together in 1 year and then Section B in 3 Semester. Thus due to shortage of time frame,I may had to put that extra bit effort to make up by studying prolonged hours which scared my best friends. Then things never come easy in life and we all have to do very hard work. Always do take pride in whatever you do in life. I have seen that those qualities make you competitive in life and its very important that you build up this quality in life because its foundation of success and how you do well in life in future.


AeSI or any institute is not good or bad,its the student who studies is good or bad and make marks in Aerospace community by his dedication.If you study honestly towards your goal,no one can stop you from achieving your aim. Just message to all AeSI students and Engineer that I am always there behind you in all your mission and goals. Always remember that on 10 Nov 2003 one AeSI Engineer was recipient of restigious British Cayley Award 2003 chosen by all British Aerospace Industries together from Her Majesty Queen at Buckingham Palace in London.That was the most memorable day in my life and its always once in life time achievement which every Aerospace Engineer dreams of.

Best wishes to all of you

Bishnujee Singh

Also Read : 3 steps to jump start your semester

Why I don't pass a subject in AeSI?

I don't know. But let's me share what I did when I didn't pass.

After blasting aesi for the result, I usually turned to my own short coming.

And to my surprise I always found that there were some things that I would have done better. I was never able to outrightly blame aesi for my failure. A shadow of doubt always remained that I had lacked somewhere. I missed something.

But the act of thinking back and trying to ascertain the reason of my failure surely helped me see the cracks in my own study system. I learnt from them and finally I did pass those subjects.

So all I can suggest you guys and gals is once the amaesi aesi results are in. Take stock on what you did right and what went wrong? Why you failed? What you did in your passing subject and what you didn't in the failed subject?

An hour of this can go a long way in improving your studies.

Share your views. They are always welcome.

Section A June 2010 AMAeSI Results Analysis

Unlike all other exam result analysis that i have done on this blog, this time I gave myself the challenge to use just two charts to analyze the June 2010 exam results.

[This is fairly a long post and if you are not an AeSI student, you can skip the post!']

My aim was to capture all the info and insight in just two charts!

I have selected a box plot and a stacked column chart to capture the information!!

The Box Plot

Click the diagram to see better.

Boxplot shows the spread of the marks and the stacked column chart shows the count of passing students!!

In the above diagram, it shows what is the mark spread of each subject in section A!!

As you can see strength of materials had the highest marks in all subjects followed closely by applied mathematics 1!!

The yellow triangle indicates the median of all marks students got.

If we lined up all the students who passed engineering thermodynamics in terms of the mark in ascending order and asked the one in the middle what is his marks, this is what 58 indicates for ET in the chart.

Median represents the middle of the marks!!

This plot reveals that SOM, AM1, EDD, ET, and FM are real high scoring subjects and one can aim to get 80+ marks in each of them.

And the subjects EE, WT, MSE, and IA are the low scoring subjects. They had medians below 53!! This means most of the students just barely passed!!

The length of the box represents the variations in the marks, the higher the box, the larger the spread of the marks in those subjects. As expected with high marks, ET and SOM had the highest spread of marks ranging between 50 to 65!!

It's interesting to note that the lowest maximum marks was above 65!!

The stacked column chart.

Click the diagram to see better.

This represents the frequency of marks obtained by students in each subject.

The blue colour indicates number of students who obtained marks between 50 and 60, orange represents the marks obtained between 60 and 70, orange represents the count of students who obtained marks between 70 to 80 and read represents number of students who obtained marks between 80 to 90.

As you can see, In EE, electrical engineering 90% of the students came under 60 and 10 % got between 60 t0 70!!

MSE was the subject which has close to 94% of students getting less than 60!!

SOM, FM were the two subjects in which 8 and 3 students respectively got more than 80%

SOM,ET,EDD,FM were the subjects that  some students got marks between 70 to 80.

Numbers on the bars represent the number of students falling under the band of the colour.

Sum the numbers in each band and you have the number of students passing the exam for that particular subjects.

As you can see, except for ET and then SOM, the blue band of students is highest.

You aim should be to get out of this band. You aim should be to get into the red band..

So what does this all mean!!

These plots give you hard facts, facts to arm you to set your own targets for these subjects. They give you the insight to let you decide on how to study for each subjects. These graphs reveal the trend that you can use to your advantage while studying.

Would love to hear what you think of this? Please send in your comments!!

In next Post, I will post similar charts for Section B, so stay tuned.

If you are not able to clear an AeSI subject read this!

Are you failing in one subject of AeSI again and again? Are you
feeling no matter how much you study, you can't clear AeSI?

If AeSI is being tough to you and if one subject is coming back to you
again and again, then I suggest read the following post.

http://calnewport.com/blog/2010/04/01/i-got-a-c-on-my-orgo-exam-what-should-i-do/

This post talks about how we need to change our study technique and
not the number of hours.

As the post suggest, I do feel that the real reason for not clearing
the exams is not the number of hour but it's our faulty study habits!

Read the above post and resolve to impliment some of the tips into
your life. You will surely reach your study goals!!

Section B avionics Stream June 2010 Analysis

Which stream is better in getting marks, avionics or aero mechanical? Does Avionics 1 gets you more marks than Avionics 2? Which is the best marks earning subject in this stream?

All these and more is revealed… so dig in.

The BoxPlot

 

• The first thing that strikes is none of the core avionics subjects had got into the 80% band.
• 79 in AGS being the maximum marks in core avionics subjects
• Median(the yellow triangle in the graph) for AV2 and AI is 60.5 and 64.5 respectively. This means more than 50% of the students got more than this marks in this subjects
• MRCS has the lowest median of 53, meaning 50 of student appearing in this subject got less than 53!

The Stacked Column Chart

 

 

• The first thing to notice is the numbers. Observe how low they are except in AM2, APSC and MS which is because these subjects are common with various other streams
• The low number indicate less people take this stream in section B
• Among the Avionics 1 and Avionics 2, AV2 seems to be doing good as it has got more students passing in the band between 60 to 70.
• AI also shows the similar trend of more people being in 60 to 70 marks band.
• AV2,AI and AGS are the only core avionics subjects where some students have got more than 70 marks.
• AI is the best scoring subject in core avionics subjects as close to 65% students got above 60 marks.

If more interested, study the graphs yourself and you will find more insight. Hope this helps you in your strategy to study for this semester!!

I am stuck in the same AeSI subject, what should i do?

Saw this email from an AeSI student.


"
afraid if i m to stuck in SecA due to that paper only. so i need ur urgent help regarding which books to follow that adheres to the question pattern so that i can at least pass the exam. its my 3rd year running..and i have no time. "

My first comment to him will be, go to a quite place, have some time and brainstorm what is it that he is getting wrong?

Keep AeSI out of the blame game and think hard on what can be your faults.

Just write out wherever comes to the mind. Don't judge. Keep thinking and pushing yourself for the reason on what is going wrong. Think back to all exams and find the causes.


Once you have number of causes, you will definitely begin seeing a pattern emerging. Now is the judging time. Find the main reasons that you see now.

Is is the lack of your understanding of the subject? Or is it your lack of expressing it in the exams. Or is it a combination of both?

You can fail in the exams only for two reasons, either you lack understanding of the subject or the understanding is not expressed well in the exam papers.


Find the reason and implement steps in your study routine to eliminate it.

Hope this helps. Blog readers, do you have any other ideas, feel free to share them here.

Some highlights on Section-A AeSI Results

Here’s a short snapshot of Section A Results. I love tinkering with numbers and the results at the of AeSI provides me ample opportunities to play n.

So, here’s some of the results graphs that i have come up.

 

Count is the total number of students who passed in a particular subject. As you see Workshop Technology was the subject which maximum AeSI students cleared followed by Strength of Materials. Since AeSI doesn’t publish the total number of students appearing its hard to see how many appeared in an exam.

 

Average Marks is the average of the marks of the total passed students. It show what's the average percentage in each subject of section A. Much more informative and informs you in which subjects you have to study hard and deep.

Engineering Thermodynamics is the highest and as always introduction to flight is the bottleneck.

 

Maximum Marks is the highest marks that each subjects has gathered. This metric is interesting as this gives you a goal to shoot for. This gives you a mark that you can visible aim at.. See someone in thermodynamics did got 96!! Interestingly all the highest marks are above 65!! Really a good sign.

 

How do you use this information is up to you? What i want to tell you is, keep the numbers in your mind and next time study hard and study with a concrete goal!!

Please pass this on to your friends, they might find it useful.

AeSI rule has changed

 

Hi  there, 

 

Well here's  a news from AeSI. I was not able to categorise the news on whether it is bad or good  due  to  lack of information. It  concerns the reappearing rule.  So here is the basic  text  of the mail sent to GIE by AeSI. Concerned  person note and the rest  of  us, lets  find out "Is it  good or bad news!!!"

 

 

The Governing Council has approved following update in the Rule No. 7 in the Rules for the Examination. This concerns options for students to improve scores in various subjects, comes in force with immediate effect, and now reads as follows:- "A student desirous of improving his/her score in any subject in which he/she has already secured a pass mark, may be given one extra chance to take the subject examination, and the higher of his/her two scores in the two attempts will be considered as his final score in that subject."
 

as  always

 

Secrets of AeSI.

What a topic. Someone will say are you mad? Are you crazy? Who knows about this?

It’s like answering what is love? And every person has his or her own opinion. Well true and I am not denying that but then also they write on that topic then why not write on this one.


Well without further delays lets get on.

AeSI secrets are not nuclear, nor are they atomic that you have to bring out a microscope to see them they are more common which sometimes we fail to notice.

First secret is believe that AeSI is not invincible. Remove any doubts you may have that you cannot clear AeSI that you may have. Many have cleared it and many more will. All you need is a focused, dedicated preparation and no-mistake uneventful exam and you are in the safe side of AeSI. First positive step you might take is to stay focused in your preparation and in exams stay concentrated.


More often than we care to think, it’s the exam fright; exam goof ups in the examination hall that cost us the ever-elusive 50% marks than our preparation.

So jot this point in your memory.

Second secret of AeSI is there is no tough subject, no easy subject. Every subject is as important as it can be. All that is required is preparation. "Yeah yeah what do you know?” you may say, but this is coming from a guy who gave flights 4 times before he finally cleared. It only experience in AeSI that I claim that for. All you need is right positive attitude and the right focused preparation. I have seen AeSI guys preparing for flights for the 5th time but they all have one thing in common they are all negative. They don't show confidence. Oh what will happen in flights, what will they ask? No one asks oh what have I left? But will ask what if he asks instruments. They hanker more on what they don't know than knowing and learning what they don't know.

Another common mistake is i didn’t have enough time in exam. Well exams are taken to see how resourceful and time punctual you are they are there to see other than your knowledge how do you manage a pressure situation.

Third secret of AeSI is that there is no such thing that ”This will come, this will not come!!!” I don’t know what and how the exam papers are set, but one thing I have and many of you must have noticed and learned from AeSI papers is that don’t predict the topic of question that may come and not come it never works in AeSI. Believe me. I have first hand experience as in case of P2 paper in my time when my paper was an exact 70% copy of the immediate previous semester’s question!!! And take the recent paper of VMD, when the paper setter completely ignored the governor, flywheel and went off-track thus shocking every VMD examinee.

So stay away from “this will come and that will come routine”, the further you are from this argument the better it will be for you and more pleasant will be your experience with AeSI!

And last of all, While in a 7 days site seeing visit at Rai Barrelli , we were introduced to an AMAeSI engineer who was some head in IGRUA. I don’t remember his name, but I do have clear picture in my head about the middle age boyish man, grinning at us, as we gathered around him. There with a smile he announced to us, “Complete this degree, and then sky is the limit!” I believed that guy that day and I still believe him and if you do believe him, so keep working hard!

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