IIT Delhi(Computer Applications)

Joint Computer Applications program(JCA) is an interdisciplinary M.Tech program run by Mathematics, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Departments at IIT Delhi. As I have already talked about IIT Delhi in a previous post, I will directly jump to course and interview details.

Selection Criterion

IIT Delhi shortlisted students based on GATE score and shortlisted candidates were called for interview conducted at the institute. The cut off GATE score for M.Tech JCA was 800 which was around rank 245 according to my guess as my rank/score were 241/802 and one of my friend's were 247/798. I considered myself very lucky to be just above the cut off score. In the selection process, both GATE score as well as the interview performance are given weightage.

Category		Minimum GATE norm score CS/IT GATE only	Minimum aggregate percentage or CGPA in qualifying degree
Full time with Assistantship	General	800	60% or 6.75/10
	OBC	720	60% or 6.75/10
	SC/ST/PH	550	55% or 6.25/10
Part-time/ Industry Sponsored	General		75% or 8.5/10
	OBC		74% or 8.3/10
	SC/ST/PH		70% or 7.5/10

  

The interview date for JCA was 19th May. The date was clashing with IIT Bombay's Research Assistantship program's written and interview rounds, so we had a tough choice to make. I went for JCA program.

About Course

JCA is an interdisciplinary course which is governed by 3 departments, Mathematics, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Apart from CS and IT students, ECE, Maths and many more students are also eligible for this course. The program admits 20 students per year from these disciplines. JCA is a very flexible course as a student can choose subjects from any of the three departments. A student from computer science background can take all the elective subjects from  computer science department and would have to do only two maths courses discrete maths and numerical optimization. To read more about the course visit these links:
https://sites.google.com/site/jcaiitd/about-jca
http://mtech-admission-iits.blogspot.in/2011/01/jca-computer-applications-at-iit-delhi.html
http://gaurav89.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/jca-at-iit-delhi/

Jca Course Content 

Interview Round
Like IIT Kgp, the JCA program at IIT Delhi also had only interview round and no written test. The interview consisted mostly mathematics questions.They asked me to introduce myself, why I wanted to join M.Tech. There were questions about matrices, eigen values, definition of eigen values, uses of eigen values, mathematical logic questions, they asked me to make truth tables, gave expressions and asked whether it is tautology, address of a[i][j] element of a 2d array and some more array questions.

My interview didn't go well because I couldn't answer many of the mathematics questions.

Admission Result
The result of the interview was released about a 2-3 weeks after the interview. I got selected for admission in the institute and will join from 21st July, unless waiting list of MCS course clears.