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Overview of IISER Mohali

Name: Overview of IISER Mohali
Item: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research - [IISER]
Rating: 3.6
Author: ANKIT SARKAR

ANKIT SARKAR

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research - [IISER]( Enrolled 2023 )BS + MS, Biological SciencesJune 8, 2024

3.6 /5

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The campus environment is quite good. Seniors here are quite helpful.
We get good research environment and curiosity is encouraged by professors and peers.

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Dislikes

The mess food is not the best in comparison to the price charged.
The campus is located in a very hot and polluted region.

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Course Curriculum Overview :

The curriculum is set in a way to encourage for further research. It does prepare for real-world applications and future academic persuit. In general the courses are quite interactive but sometimes if feels like it's running faster than what an average student can grasp. Sometimes there are problems with exam since there are three exams in semester of four months and at the end it feels like we are only studying for the sake of exams

Class Size : 264Course Fees : INR 20402 per year

Internships Opportunities :

Internship is mainly offering during summer and winter for joining other labs and working with them. Students form other collegs can opt for these opportunities. The internship are not always paid internship. Different projects are offerd by different labs.

Loan/ Scholarship Provisions :

Tuition fees have increased quite a lot over the years. Previously under INSPIRE fellowship every student who took admission to the collere where given 5000 INR which in now only given to student who scored top 10% in the boards which doesn't feel right.

Campus Life :

The social life is quite good here since people here tenda to mind their own buisness. Seniors and peers most of the time are very helpful. Club are quite active in here. There are club for music, dance, drama, robotics, ad other academic orientated clubs. The academic clubs hosts seminer quite regularly and are great source of knowledge too. The library is quite good and is the biggest among IISERs and almost lal kinds of book and journals are available. The college fest here is called INSOMNIA and is quite beautiful. There are band band concerts, battle of bands, and other interesting competitions and feels very exciting.

Admission :

The admission process was available through3 channels when I took admission- KVPY, JEE Advance and SBC. I got my admission through SBC channel which consisnt of CBT of 4 subjects, physics maths chemistry and biology. Each subject consisting of 15 questions of 5 marka. The quality and standards of question are quite good compared to other exams like NEET and JEE Mains, and memorising sets of questions and answers doesn't help much. The exam does check for critical thinking skills in field of science. Cut off varies every year depending on number of sudent and what they scored but scoring above 150 should so do the work

Faculty :

The faculty here are quite good at there work, be it research or teaching. Interaction with the professors regarding any kind of problems are always welcomed. The teaching method varies from professor to professor but on average it's quite good. Professors do help in there free times or office hours during any problem and all kind of questions are entertained. They are quite friendly with the students.

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Soumendu Jana

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research - [IISER]( Enrolled 2023 )Bachelor of Science [BS] + Master of Science [MS] (Physical Science)June 8, 2024

3.9 /5

IISER Mohali : another home with love and science

Course Curriculum Overview:

The curriculum of IISER mohali is very different from any other college in India, it is designed to give students real life application with understanding of fundamental concepts of all the subjects. The most interesting part of the curriculum is inclusion of social science with traditional science subjects, so that students stay conscious about real life problems and society, and help to remove the problems. The labs cources are well designed with problems from ongoing research. The teachers use interactive boards to elaborate us topics with audio visual medium. There are 3 exams in a semester, two mid semster exam and one end semester exam. The student who might fail a course given chance to pass it in summer. The difficulty of exams depends on proffesor. But most of the exams in first two year are easy to moderate but from third onwards its moderate to difficult. The curriculum is designed to specifically who want to persue research in future and provides really great foundation.

faculty: 4.5/5

college: 4/5

course: 3.5/5

hostel: 3/5

campus life: 4.5/5

Daksh

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research - [IISER]( Enrolled 2023 )Bachelor of Science [BS] + Master of Science [MS] (Biological Sciences)May 29, 2024

4.1 /5

IISER Mohali Review through the lens of a student who finished his first year

Course Curriculum Overview:

The course structure has very good HSS courses, as well as all the other courses and very well balanced, some of them are hard but through consistent learning you can get an A pretty easily. With the new introduction of premajors, even the need to do 4 subjects for 2 years has been reduced and we can now opt for 2 subjects after 1st year. The frequency of exams is a bit hectic, since we have to appear for 2 midsems and 1 endsem in 4 months with additional quizzes and assignments in between.

faculty: 5/5

college: 4.5/5

course: 4/5

hostel: 2.5/5

campus life: 4.5/5

Omansh Malhotra

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research - [IISER]( Enrolled 2023 )Bachelor of Science [BS] + Master of Science [MS] (Physical Science)May 17, 2024

4.5 /5

LIFE AT IISER MOHALI

Course Curriculum Overview:

The course is for those who have passion towards science. The curriculum is very good and there is a major focus on interdisciplinary research with a lot of options for elective courses to prepare students for real world applications. Although the difficulty of exams depends on a particular instructor, the frequency is high as they occur every month in an ongoing semester

faculty: 5/5

college: 4.5/5

course: 4/5

campus life: 4.5/5

Brahamjot Singh

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research - [IISER]( Enrolled 2023 )Bachelor of Science [BS] + Master of Science [MS] (Physical Science)April 6, 2024

4.6 /5

Life at IISER

Placement Experience:

Majorly, the plans of many students after cometing this degree is to go for Ph.D in foreign colleges or .aybe corges in India only or maybe just in IISER only and placement opportunities are rather low

placement: 2.5/5

college: 5/5

course: 5/5

hostel: 5/5

internship: 5/5

campus life: 5/5

Biswa Ranjan Rout

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research - [IISER]( Enrolled 2023 )Bachelor of Science [BS] + Master of Science [MS] (Physical Science)February 17, 2024

3.5 /5

IISER Mohali : A potential candidate

Course Curriculum Overview:

I like the overall curriculum , the laboratory exposure from the first year itself provides a really good exposure , the schedule is good as well , it is not hectic and you get time to develope other skills apart from curriculum. You can get engaged with short and long time project while being in your bachelors degree itself . Though there are two mid semester and one end semester exams in each semester and the difficulty level varies from professor to professor thus we have relative grading.

college: 3.5/5

course: 3.5/5

hostel: 3.5/5

internship: 3/5

campus life: 4/5

Aditya Choudhary

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research - [IISER]( Enrolled 2020 )Bachelor of Science [BS] + Master of Science [MS] (Biological Sciences)November 7, 2023

3.9 /5

IISER - A NEW ERA OF RESEARCH

Course Curriculum Overview:

THIS IS A RESEARCH ORIENTED COURSE BS-MS, basically an integrated 5-year bsc msc plan but in a more structured and on a research basis. There is at least 1 professor on 30 students I think not sure. And all professors are well-qualified postdocs from good foreign universities. Term exams were divided into 2 midsems and one end sem and the level of paper is the same as what professors taught in class.

college: 3/5

course: 4/5

hostel: 4/5

internship: 5/5

campus life: 3.5/5

Vishal Negi

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research - [IISER]( Enrolled 2020 )Bachelor of Science [BS] + Master of Science [MS] (Biological Sciences)November 7, 2023

4.1 /5

IISER MOHALI- where science meets innovation

Course Curriculum Overview:

I chose this course because I was interested in research. The student-to-faculty ratio here is 30:1. They all are postdocs and all of them have done their postdocs from good foreign universities. Here mid sems are conducted every month in total 2 midsems and one endsem is conducted every semester, the exams are not too tough if you go to classes and understand things conceptually.

college: 4/5

course: 4/5

internship: 4/5

campus life: 4.5/5

Arka Dutta

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research - [IISER]( Enrolled 2018 )Bachelor of Science [BS] + Master of Science [MS] (Physical Science)September 28, 2023

4.0 /5

IISER Mohali, be ready to get introduced to academic roller coaster:)

Course Curriculum Overview:

This course mainly focuses on building foundations for basic science among students. As I always wanted to become a scientist I chose this institution. In my opinion, IISERs are way more research than other Indian Universities because of the following reasons 1. Course structure focuses a lot on building up essential skills for both experimental and theoretical sciences. 2. The extensive summer internship culture in IISERs helps the students to get introduced to research from their very first year. 3. The professors have connections with other scientists worldwide which can help students explore research in a lot of advanced laboratories and institutes. Talking about the course structure here1. Courses are usually pretty extensive as every course includes a lot of assignments, quizzes, two mid-sems and one end-sem. 2. As the core courses here for the first two years include all four subjects (PCMB) the core courses don't go that deep which makes the major courses pretty extensive.

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hostel: 4/5

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campus life: 4.5/5

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