Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 8: Rayat Bahra University (RBU) conducted Mock JEE-2014 Test besides two scholarship tests in its Campus wherein 1,835 students across Chandigarh, Mohali, Kurali, Morinda, Kharar, Panchkula and Punjab participated.
Aiming at testing skills ahead of JEE 2014, the mock test was organized free of cost with a bounty of prizes to embolden the students. Aspirants in engineering courses, only those with +2 non-medicals / medical with mathematics, participated in the examination.
Simultaneously, two Scholarship tests were also conducted for 10+2 Arts, Commerce, Medical, Vocational students and for matric students.
The first three winners of JEE mock test and two scholarship tests were awarded with cash prizes of Rs 11000, Rs 5100 and Rs 2100, respectively. Besides the cash prizes, first 10 position holders were awarded scholarships, trophies and certificates also.
Special arrangements like pick up and dropping facility for thousands of students from various locations in and around Mohali were provided for the test which started early in the day. Free lunch facility was arranged for all the participants.
Gurvinder Singh Bahra, Chairman, Rayat-Bahra group distributed the prizes to the winners and congratulated them for performing well in the competitions. He said that after the success of 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 mock tests, the institute again decided to hold a mock test-JEE to give aspirants an opportunity for self-evaluation and introspection.
He also announced scholarships worth Lakhs for the needy students and conveyed about the Group’s special concessions viz 100% concession for those students whose parents are not alive, 50% for fatherless, 50% for single girl child, 25% for disabled and physically challenged for duration of the course and more concessions for sports persons who always seek admission in RBGI Group.
Vice Chancellor, Dr SK Bansal, RBU, Campus said that the mock test has always proved boon for financially unsound students, who could not take coaching from private coaching centers. It was a golden opportunity for them to study the pattern of the actual exam.