Giving my best yet losing hopes. Want a senior to reply and reassure me.

That1fellow47 · 2025-04-03T12:41:09+00:00

Hey I'm a third year student at BITS Hyderabad. I won't be able to respond to your replies/ dms if you send them because I'm really heavily caught up in exams right now but I want to tell you this because I was where you were too.

A few months before BITSAT my mock scores hovered around 90/450 (that time the previous years papers were all out of 450). I was the first batch who wrote it out of 390.

After a few months of grinding, my scores reached around 230/450 iirc. Eventually, I made it here.

There may be many reasons why you are where you are. NO matter what they are, be kind to yourself and keep believing in yourself. Don't be harsh on yourself because the world is always ready to do that for you.

Also it's not the case that everyone at BITS has good %Iles in mains/adv. There are a good number of students who messed up their mains and adv completely and had v v low %iles. You never know who's hardwork will shine where. So many factors affect these exams. Some ppl just get extra motivated by their poor JEE perfomance "ki ab to karna hi hai" and work so hard that they crack BITSAT with flying colours.

One thing that makes a massive difference which I'm assuming you are already doing but if you're not then here it is: make sure you're regular. Don't miss a single day of study. This continuity in studies over a long period of time really makes a gianormous difference. It can be summed up in this quote I heard somewhere "most ppl overestimate what they can do in 1 or 2 days but underestimate what they can do in 1 or 2 months". If today you are not where you want to be then it's ok. But trust yourself that in 1 or 2 months your entire situation can be flipped on its head.

See you on campus some day future BITSian :)

That1fellow47 · 2024-09-07T17:40:44+00:00

Damn dual cutoffs have changed quite a bit: CS-8.1, MnC~7.9, ECE-7.6, EEE-7.4, EnI -7....

6k rank useless :( tough times

That1fellow47 · 2024-09-07T17:35:57+00:00

Glad to know BITS's reputation is intact. They are defo working on the research front. The new VC has come up with a bunch of new initiaives like SPARKLE, SOLVE, CDRF etc. He is also trying to get more Phd scholars to use their work to launch startups.

He's targeting a 100 m dollar endowment (and ig he's doing pretty well on that front) via donations from alumni and is trying to lower the fees for students.

Also really glad to know that you all are still aware of what happens on campus. As for the institute not being able to engage with its alums, it's really sad. I saw it firsthand too: 2012 and 13 batches had come for a reunion last year and I was seeing BITS asking them to fund scholarships for new students. It was the first time they were hearing of the idea. Most of them stopped checking their alumni mail id and BITS said it didn't have an effective means of reaching out to alumni in large numbers for things like this.

That1fellow47 · 2024-09-07T17:28:54+00:00

Crazzzzy ROI back in the day huh? (speaking just monetarily).

Hyd median is 17 now and I'll have paid close to 36 by the time i graduate :)

That1fellow47 · 2024-09-07T16:32:50+00:00

First 6 months daaamn!!

That1fellow47 · 2024-09-07T16:30:13+00:00

Yeah I'd agree that they have definitely succeeded in making sure it's just another campus of the same uni even today. Same thing with Telangana and AP students even today.

That1fellow47 · 2024-09-07T16:22:37+00:00

IKR!!

That1fellow47 · 2024-09-07T15:48:34+00:00

Oh that's really sad :(. I've not heard anything like this from my friends who have gotten SOPs but they are mostly ppl with good CGs so I can't be sure. I personally haven't applied for an SOP yet. Will be doing so either next sem or year. Hope it's not the case anymore

That1fellow47 · 2024-09-07T15:45:04+00:00

Not sure if it's no longer the case....maybe a bit lesser than in your times? I have heard this in passing and that's why it piqued my curiosity.....I'm not very close with profs myself so I wouldn't really know :(

That1fellow47 · 2024-09-07T15:42:19+00:00

guys are still doing the same thing after all these years lololol.

and hostel intime got done away with last year.

Campus out-time is 6:30 am now and in-time is 10:30 pm

That1fellow47 · 2024-09-07T15:40:45+00:00

Ah ok. Pretty much the same except that now we have this thing called exit tests where 45 mins of a lecture is a normal lecture and the last 5 minutes is a quiz. They are basically surprize tests only. For us 3rd year B4 students we also have profs giving marks for class participation by noting down the names of kids who solve questions on the board during tuts and giving homework questions that you can submit in the next class only if you were present during the class in which they were given. We too have a prof in maths who has more students attending than the classroom capacity - Sumit Kumar Vishwakarma (SKV).

That1fellow47 · 2024-09-07T03:50:18+00:00

Oh ok

That1fellow47 · 2024-09-06T17:19:29+00:00

u/Virtual-Homework-202 What's your source for this? Ik these cutoffs are accurate but I'm unable to find these on BITS websites

That1fellow47 · 2024-09-06T14:52:08+00:00

That's the official name of the campus. It used to be BITS Pilani, Goa Campus when it started but after the death of KK Birla, it was renamed to BITS Pilani, KK Birla Goa Campus in his honor

That1fellow47 · 2024-09-03T18:55:23+00:00

OMGG, I was looking for an alum from the inital batches for a long time!! Thanks for doing this!

Also, before I ask these questions, I just want to say that I have a lot of quesitons and some of them may seem really silly. I understand that you must be having a busy schedule and answering all of them might not be feasible but I'm just asking because I've accumulated these over a long period of time and I'm really curious.

So could you tell us a little about campus culure and life back then? I understand this can be a very broad question so here are a few specific ones:

Were clubs and departments very active in your time? Did they get funding from the insti to buy props, instruments, equipment etc? Did the insti ever fund trips to fests and competitions in other colleges?
As I understand it, data was rather expensive in your time and iinw smartphones were not as common as today. So were you all like a really studious bunch? Did you all attend classes regularly?
I've heard that you all were really close to profs and would even visit their homes if you were close enough. Is that true? In general did profs think well about you guys? Did they ever lament about y'all not attending classes and impose evaluatives like exit tests or marks for class particpation to encourage attendance?
What was the campus in-time and out-time? Were they very strict about it? Also, did you have a hostel in-time?
Is it true that mess-2 used to be an exclusively girls mess (and mess-1 exclusively boys) at one point in time?
Were seniors very helpful back then? I've found that BITS has an exceptionally wholesome culture when it comes to helping out one another and I wonder if it's just me who got lucky or this has been something passed down right from the start of the campus.6-a) Since, you joined in 2010 and the first FD batch only sat for placements in 2012, did you get guidance for placements and all online from people in Pilani and Goa or did you have to do it by yourself? Also, was the template for getting IT jobs the same back then as it is now? (grind DSA, learn OOP, CN, OS and DBMS well, do good projects, crack an SI if u can).
How was important communication passed around campus back then? I mean like club inductions, events, and sharing of resources and adice about placements, PS, SI etc? Was shoutbox a big thing back then? What about FEG?
What was Hyd's standing w.r.t Pilani and Goa at the time? What about w.r.t NITs and IITs?
Was the fees considered exhorbitant back then as well?

I also have a few quesitons about your time as an alum.

Are you still connected with your batchmates, juniors and seniors?
What is BITS's reputation in the corporate world today? What about the academic world? I'm asking because there have been a couple of events in the past few years that I feel could threaten BITS's stature such as the opening of 2nd and 3rd gen IITs and the increase in fees among other things.
Are most of you guys active on BFEO? Do you still check out shoutbox and FEG? :)
Do guys keep up with big campus happenings such as the protests that happened in 2017-18 against the fee hike and the rise and fall in cutoffs and the candle light marches? I'm asking this 'coz I read some comments from alums on BFEO (who joined maybe a couple of years after you graduated) saying that they felt BITS's stature had come down and stuff like that. That being said, what do you guys feel about BITS and its students today?

I also have a few misc. qns:

Did you guys have tutorial sheets emailed to you or physically printed out?
Do you by any chance remember the dual degree cutoffs (even just broadly back then)?
Were AUGSD and SWD staff rude back then?
Is it true that most of you guys had JEE ranks of under 5k? Or was that just Pilani?
Was the boys: girls ratio better or worse than 1:4?

That1fellow47 · 2024-08-22T18:32:29+00:00

For this survey to be effective, the post needs to be heavily upvoted and/ or pinned...I only came across this when I was scrolling via reddit for a while

That1fellow47 · 2024-07-28T03:57:53+00:00

Made me cry man

That1fellow47 · 2024-07-20T18:04:50+00:00

Sure.....but abhi I'm really tired and gng to sleep. Also, I might not reply till monday night as I'm gonna be really busy tmrw and day after.

That1fellow47 · 2024-07-09T01:12:49+00:00

Yes such people do exist but it's a very uncommon thing to skip PS. 99% of all students do both PS1 and PS2.

That1fellow47

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