All you need to know to crack the NEW GRE

  
GRE stands for Graduate Record Examination and is administered by Education Testing Service (ETS). It is a multiple-choice entrance test that graduate schools in English speaking countries

Students who are taking new GRE now on have an advantage of friendly design for the computer-based test. The test features advanced technology that allows students to freely move forward and backward, edit or change answers and skip questions, all within a section, and use an on-screen calculator. These features were not as a part of the earlier test. There are new types of questions in the Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning sections, many featuring real-life scenarios that reflect the kind of thinking of an individual.

ETS can send your GRE scores to a maximum of four universities chosen by you. The costs of sending these scores are in-built in the fees that you pay for appearing in the test.
Inside the new GRE 2011

In old GRE format, Analytical writing section was always first in the test, followed by Verbal, Quantitative and Research section. But in New Revised GRE either of the sections could be first. If there is a Research section mostly it always appears at the end of the test. The computer-based test takes about 3 hours and 45 minutes.

Test format for computer-based test:

Section	No. of Questions	Time Allotted
Analytical Writing (1 section with 2 separately timed tasks)	One "Analyze an Issue" task and One "Analyze an Argument" task.	30 minutes per task (30mins + 30mins = 60 mins)
Verbal Reasoning (2 sections)	Approximately 20 questions per section.	30 minutes per section (30mins + 30mins = 60mins)
Quantitative Reasoning (2 sections)	Approximately 20 questions per section.	35 minutes per section (35mins + 35mins = 70 mins)
Unscored	Vary from test to test	Vary from test to test
Research	Vary from test to test	Vary from test to test

There's a 10-minute break following the third section and a 1-minute break between the other test sections.

GRE Scoring pattern
With the new GRE, the most important change is the in the scoring system. Current day GRE has 10-point increments and new pattern will have to 1-point increments. According to ETS – the purpose for compressing the reporting metric is simple: to produce scores that don’t exaggerate small performance differences between examinees.

The new GRE pattern score scale for the GRE revised General Test:

• New GRE Verbal: 130–170 score scale, in 1-point increments (current GRE pattern 200–800 in 10-point increments).
• New GRE Quantitative: 130–170 score scale, in 1-point increments (current GRE Pattern 200–800 in 10-point increments).
• Analytical Writing will continue to be reported on the same 0–6 score scale, in half-point increments.

Tips to crack the new GRE

• Be aware of the type of questions that will appear in the GRE Test and how long each section is and the time limits. This will help you pace yourself through the test.
• Devote just the right amount of time to each question. Maximising marks in a given period of time should be the aim. Do not rush. The questions at the beginning affect score more than those towards the end.
• It is essential that you remain calm and relax before going to the test. A person who is relaxed usually does much better than a person who is tense during an exam. Get enough sleep before the day.
• Getting to the test centre on time is vital. In fact you should try and get to the test center 15-30 minutes before time. Taking a test drive to your test center exactly a week before might be a good idea. This will give you a rough idea of the traffic conditions at the time and day of your GRE.
• Students are not allowed to bring any sheets of paper to the GRE test centre but are provided scratch paper by the center. Make effective use of this to make quick notes or for solving math questions.
• Keep your cool all the time, even when you don't know the answer. Once students panic, even answer to the easiest questions can be wrongly attempted.

How to register for GRE

 The GRE exam registrations can be done in the following ways:

1. Online Registration | 2. Phone Registration | 3.Regular Postal mail

All the best for your GRE prep. 

The new GRE 2011 - Video Overview

NASA’s latest game makes you a network admin… in SPACE!

NASA has released a new browser-based game made to let you build a computer network that spans the globe and then orbits it with satellites in low earth orbit.

NetworKing, developed at the Ames Research Center’s Information Technology Office, lets players take on a role not unlike the one played by the real-world office

Once in space, it’s possible to achieve multiple levels of progress. Players begin with a Near Earth Network, which includes geosynchronous satellites like those used in the Global Positioning System (GPS). Later on, a Deep Space Network supports interplanetary communication. At the highest levels, missions culminate in actual NASA projects including the International Space Station and the Hubble Space Telescope.

The game uses 3D graphics, but is playable in a browser thanks to the popular Unity graphics engine plugin. A browser-based game also means that it is cross-platform, meaning it’s playable on your OS and browser of choice as long as Unity is supported. Players can get started playing the game right now.

NASA’s previous game release, Moonbase Alpha, was an MMO set on the moon. It was perhaps best known for a text-to-speech feature in its in-game chat channel that soon became something of a playground for trolls as the video below demonstrates:

IITK Nano Satellite JUGNU

IITK to launch India's first nano satellite, Jugnu: IITK is working together with ISRO(Indian Space Research Organization) to launch its first nano satellite, Jugnu,by the end of september. On 6th of March president of India handed over the Engineering Model to ISRO for testing to ISRO.The satellite will be launched into a polar orbit of 700 - 800 km altitude from Sriharikota by ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). Jugnu is 1 foot long, 10 cm wide and will weigh less than 3 kg. It is equipped with near IR(Infra Red) camera and will transmit images to a base station at the IITK campus. It will also broadcast a beacon signal that HAM operators all over the globe will be able to pick up. The stipulated life time of the satellite is around 12 months. The high-resolution pictures and the data obtained from the satellite will be used for various applications such as drought monitoring, wasteland management, urban planning and flood-risk management. The nano satellite is being developed by a team of 50 students led by Shantanu Agarwal . A ground station is being built at IIT Kanpur for monitoring its activities and for data communication.

For website on Jugnu click here. 

A Tribute to JAGJIT SINGH

The Ghazal King Jagjit Singh is no more…..

It is very sad to write  that great ghazal singer of India Jagjit Singh passed away this morning ! Philatelic Tributes to the great singer from all music lovers and whole philatelic community. Here I share some of his famous ghazals and songs which I like most …… Hoton se chu Lo Tum is his most popular song from film ‘Prem Geet’ . The song in velvety voice of Jagjit Singh  touched the heart of millions. Jagjit Singh’s voice will remain alive in the minds and hearts of music lovers all over the world. This Post is a  tribute to the legendary ghazal singer….Here are some of his unforgettable songs and ghazals….

The unforgettables of Jagjit Singh…..

Hoton se Chulo tum Live…

Hoton se Chulo  Tum ….In film Prem Geet

Popularly known as "The Ghazal King" he gained acclaim together with his wife, another renowned Indian ghazal singerChitra Singh, in the 1970s and 1980s, as the first ever successful duo act (husband-wife) in the history of recorded Indian music. Recipient of Padma Bhushan award, he has sung in several languages including Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and Nepali.
His popular ghazals include, Meri zindagi kisi aur ki, mere naam ka koi aur hai, Apni marzi se kahan apne safar ke hum hain, Wo jo hum mein tumme qaraar tha, Patta-patta boota-boota haal hamaara jaane hai, Hoshwalo ko khabar, etc.

Read More….

 

Jagjit Singh sang many ghazals of great urdu poet Mirza Ghalib.

 

Khumari Char kar Utar Gayi….. from Film Umar

Tum Itna Jo Muskar rahe ho ……. film - Arth

Baat Niklegi to fir door Talak Jayegi – Jagjit Singh’s most famous Ghazal

What is Windows 8????

Windows 8 is so conceptually and paradigmatically different from its predecessors that it’s actually quite hard to mentally grasp. Is it a desktop OS, tablet OS… or both? What about phones; it runs on ARM tablets, so what about ARM smartphones? Will it eventually replace Windows Phone 7? Windows 8 really is a re-imagining of what Windows is, and something of a rebirth for Microsoft, so you would be forgiven for not knowing the answers to these questions. There’s a slew of really cool features that have been drowned out by the introduction of Metro — security improvements, power consumption tweaks, cloud integration… and more!

Read on, and we’ll do our best to explain exactly what Windows 8 is, and more importantly what it isn’t.

• Windows 8 will not run equally well on ARM and x86
  Yes, Windows 8 will run on both ARM (Snapdragon, OMAP) and x86 (Intel, AMD) processors, but the experience will be very different. 
• The Windows 8 Metro, tile-based interface is designed specifically for low-power tablets, and touch-enabled computers
  Despite Microsoft’s reassurances that the new, tiled Start screen will feel at home on keyboard- and mouse-driven computers, the entire interface was designed from the ground up to be a tablet- and touch-first interface.
• Windows 8 will be the most secure Microsoft OS ever
  In Windows 8, Windows Defender — the anti-spyware service that is installed by default on all Windows 7 machines — is being bumped up to a full anti-virus/anti-malware suite, and in fact it looks almost identical to Microsoft Security Essentials.
  The move away from BIOS towards UEFI — Unified Extensible Firmware Interface — means that Windows 8 also provides anti-malware protection at boot time: if you try to boot while an infected USB memory stick is plugged in, Windows 8 will warn you and refuse to load.
• Windows 8 will boot in just a few secondsThe combination of UEFI and some other slipstreaming to the boot process means that Windows 8 will cold boot in just a few seconds. This is fairly inconsequential, though, as Microsoft wants you tohibernate Windows 8 rather than shut it down; especially if you’re on a tablet where instant-on is a necessity.
• Windows 8 will have built-in “Factory” Reset and Refresh
  In an another delightful twist, Windows 8 will have two features that will amaze and delight everyone: Reset and Refresh. Reset restores Windows 8 to its base, just-like-new state. Refresh is similar, but it preserves all of your documents.
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• Windows 8 (or at least the Server version) will feature Windows To Go, a bootable “live CD”
  In Windows 8, you’ll be able to plug in a blank USB stick and simply push a few buttons to turn it into a bootable Windows 8 installation.
  
  
• Windows 8 Metro will be powered by Internet Explorer 10
  The Metro interface is powered by the Trident rendering engine and Chakra JavaScript engine from Internet Explorer 10. The runtime stack has also been rejigged so that full, “native” apps can be written in HTML and JavaScript. 
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• Windows 8 will feature the Windows Store, which is just like the iOS or Mac App Store
  Metro apps are all secured by a sandbox with severely restricted functionality — and that makes them perfectly suited to a safe-for-all-the-family, moderated-by-Microsoft Windows Store.

Computer Science Data Structures Ebook - Notes- PDF Download

Notes provided are for SEM III and SEM V students of Btech....

To download click on the link.

 Data Structures (SEM - V) MECH. Rajesh Bothras.pdf‎

 Data Structure & Files (SEM - III) CMPN Vidyalankar.pdf

Electricity Generation From Human Breathing – University of Wisconsin

Developers have always been in search of alternative ways for the generation of electricity. Some of them have been the use of piezoelectric crystals that generate electricity from body movements, biological fuel cells which have the ability to produce electricity from blood sugar level of a person, and wireless transmission of power from outside the body. A new method has now been developed to produce electricity from a person’s breathing rate.

This device is manufactured by the University of Wisconsin, and it relies on piezoelectric effect, but contrary to relying on body movements to produce mechanical stress, this device makes use of speed of air flow that is a reason of a person’s respiration rate to cause vibration of the plastic micro belt engineering inside the device. This belt is made up to polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF).

India launches cheapest TABLET

India launched what it dubbed the world's cheapest tablet computer Wednesday, to be sold to students at the subsidized price of $35 and later in shops for about $60.

Most of India's 1.2 billion people are poor and products such as Apple Inc's iPad are beyond the reach even of many in the fast-growing middle class.

Below are the main features of Aakash:

• It runs on Android 2.2 (Froyo)
• 366MHz Connexant CPU with Graphics accelerator and HD Video processor
• 7-inch resistive touchscreen with 800×480 resolution
• It has got 2 USB ports, has 256MB of RAM and 32GB internal memory, expandable via microSD
• It has 2100mAh battery which can reportedly last for 2-3 hours
• It comes with a 12-month replacement warranty
• It comes with a standard 3.5mm headphone jack.
• For connectivity to internet, it has got a 802.11 a/b/g WiFi chip and a GPRS modem
• It supports formats like DOC, DOCX, PDF and PPTX etc.
• Supported audio formats: MP3, AAC, AC3, WAV, WMA
• Supported video formats: MPEG2, MPEG4, AVI, FLV
• It weighs 350 grams
• Price – $35 (Rs 1800) with govt. subsidies; $60 (Rs 2900) commercially in stores

With Steve Jobs' passing, we have lost one of the greatest technological innovators of our time.

Jobs wasn't just a savvy businessman, he was a visionary who made it his mission to humanize personal computing, rewriting the rules of user experience design, hardware design and software design. His actions reverberated across industry lines: He shook up the music business, dragged the wireless carriers into the boxing ring, changed the way software and hardware are sold and forever altered the language of computer interfaces. Along the way, he built Apple up into one of the most valuable corporations in the world.

Quite a run. He will be missed.

   

Apple I, 1976

Apple II, 1977

Macintosh, 1984

Apple IIc, 1984

Pixar, 1986

iMac, 1998

iPod, 2001

Government jobs for ECE students

        

This post about government jobs for ece electronics and communication engineering students. ECE is evergreen trade and ECE student can apply for both core and private sectors. there are many Govt jobs for ECE student. these are List of govt jobs for electronics and communication degree holders.               

1. ISRO- Indian Space Research Organization                                      

2. BSNL- Bharat Sanchar Nigam limited

3. Jobs in Railway- IES Indian Engine Ring Services

4. BHEL- Bharat Heavy Electronics Limited

5. SAIL- Steel Authority of India Limited

6. GAIL- Gas Limited

7. NTPC- National Thermal Power Corporation

8. ECIL- Electronics Corporation Of India Limited

9. BARC- Bhabha Atomic Research Center

10. UPSC- Union Public Service Commission

11. Indian Navy

12. Bank Exams

13. HAL- Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

14. AAI- Airport Authority Of India

15. DRDO- Defense Research and Development Organization

Convert Your Firefox Web Browser into a Keylogger

The keylogger will work on the basis of a script that disables the Firefox browser to ask the user to save his password whenever he logins to a website. Thereby, allowing the Firefox to store his username and password combination automatically without prompting the user. Just follow these steps to convert your firefox into a keylogger :

1. First and foremost, download the script from here.

2. If you are a Windows user, then navigate to C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/Components

and if you are using MAC, then navigate to Applications -> Right Click Firefox -> Show Package Contents -> Contents/MacOS/Components

3. In the downloaded rar file, you will find a script named as nsLoginManagerPrompter.js, simply extract and then copy and paste the file in the folder that is applicable to you.

4. Your Firefox keylogger is now ready and whenever anyone enters his username and password on any site, his details would be saved automatically which can be easily retrieved using Fire Password viewer.

Automatically wish your friends their Birthday on Facebook

A good news for all Google Chrome users, there is an extension available which automatically wishes birthdays to your friends.

HappyBirthday Extension of Google Chrome helps you to send wishes automatically. A good thing that I liked about this extension is that, it keeps a record of birthday list of last 15 days. So in case, on a particular day, if you aren’t able to connect through internet, you can send late wishes to your friend too.

HappyBirthday has few inbuilt list of wishes, which are randomly wished to your friends. But you can edit, modify and add new wishes too. To do this, right click on the extension –> Options.

I hope you all will enjoy it..!!