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A brand new lecture series from NPTEL by experts! Today's Topic - FILM SENSE

Dear Learners 

Join us for a brand new lecture series from NPTEL! 

Today's session: 

Topic : Film Sense 
Speaker : Mr. Badri Venkatesh 
Profession : Film Director 
Time : 6:00pm 
Link to watch : https://youtu.be/loBJPhlh4vA 

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Result and Certificates

Dear Students,

This announcement is specifically for those of you who had appeared for the examination and are waiting for the results.

The results will be published within 4 weeks time (April end). The students will receive the hard-copy of the certificates in the month of
May.

For any additional query, please feel free to get in touch with us.

Regards,
Mohua Dutta

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Reminder:Feedback for Postcolonial Literature

Dear student

We are glad that you have attended the NPTEL online certification course.

We hope you found the NPTEL Online course useful and have started using NPTEL extensively.

In this regard, we would like to have a feedback from you regarding our course and whether there are any improvements, you would like to suggest.
 
We are enclosing an online feedback form and would request you to spare some of your valuable time to input your observations. Your esteemed input will help us in serving you better.

The link to give your feedback is :
https://goo.gl/ATvmTs

We thank you for your valuable time and feedback.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team

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Hall ticket for March 26th NPTEL Online Certification exams is now available for download.

Dear Candidate:

If you have registered for the March 26th  NPTEL Online certification exam, your Admit Card/ Hall ticket is now available inside your application form:

1. Please visit the link: http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/

Login with your registered Google-enabled account email id (used to access the course on the portal and used for registering for the exam) and its password to access the link and click on March exams to download the hall ticket(s) for the March 26th exams, from the link.

2. You can also download it from the alternate link given below:

https://www3.digialm.com//EForms/configuredHtml/885/51559/login.html

Please try to access both the links to download your hall ticket, if you are not able to find your hall ticket in both the links., kindly write to us at nptel@iitm.ac.in.
 
Note: that you will be able to login here, only if you have a valid registration for exams on March 26th 2017.

Please download hall ticket, take a print out and along with a original ID card, carry it with you to the venue (The exam centre address is there in the hall ticket). Read all instructions given in the admit card/ hall ticket carefully and follow them.

Note1:- If you are writing 2 exams – Forenoon and Afternoon sessions, please ensure that you have downloaded 2 hall tickets which will be hosted inside the login.
 
In case of the any problems with the hall ticket kindly write to us nptel@iitm.ac.in

IMPORTANT:

1. Change of shift, course, exam center, exam city will not be encouraged.
2. You will not be allowed to write the exam if you are showing up in the exam center which is not allocated to you by mistake or by intention.
3. Entry beyond 09:30 AM in FN and 2:30 PM in AN will not be entertained.
4. Candidates will not be allowed to write the exam without Hall ticket and proper id proof.

NPTEL Team wishes you the very best for the certification exam.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL team

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Type of Exam- Online/ Offline

S. No.	Course Name	SME	Institute	Course _Id	Exam type
1	Introduction To Experiments In Flight	Prof. A.K.Ghosh	IIT Kanpur	noc17_ae02	Online
2	Introduction To Airplane Performance	Prof. A.K. Ghosh	IIT Kanpur	noc17_ae03	Online
3	Engineering Thermodynamics	Prof. Jayant K. Singh	IIT Kanpur	noc17_ae04	Online
4	Engineering Mechanics:Statics And Dynamics	Prof. Mahesh Panchagnula	IIT Madras	noc17_me01	Online
5	Housing Policy & Planning	Prof. Uttam Kumar Roy	IIT Roorkee	noc17_ce04	Online
6	Visual Semiotics For Visual Communication	Prof. Mainak Ghosh	IIT Kharagpur	noc17_ce06	Offline
7	Human Molecular Genetics	Prof. S. Ganesh	IIT Kanpur	noc17_bt01	Online
8	Functional Genomics	Prof. S. Ganesh	IIT Kanpur	noc17_bt02	Online
9	Introduction To Dynamical Models In Biology	Prof. Biplab Bose	IIT Guwahati	noc17_bt05	Online
10	Bioreactors	Prof. G.K. Suraishkumar	IIT Madras	noc17_bt06	Online
11	Introduction To Biostatistics	Prof. Shamik Sen	IIT Bombay	noc17_bt07	Offline
12	Medical Biomaterials	Prof. Mukesh Doble	IIT Madras	noc17_bt08	Online
13	Atomic And Molecular Absorption Spectrometry For Pollution Monitoring	Prof. J R Mudakavi	IIT Bangalore	noc17_ch04	Offline
14	Waste To Energy Conversion	Prof. P. Mondal	IIT Roorkee	noc17_ch05	Online
15	Chemistry I: Introduction To Quantum Chemistry And Molecular Spectroscopy	Prof. Mangal Sunder	IIT Madras	noc17_cy05	Online
16	Life Cycle Assessment	Prof. Brajesh Kumar Dubey	IIT Kharagpur	noc17_ce10	Online
17	Introduction To Modern Application Development	Prof. Gaurav Raina & G. Tanmai	IIT Madras	noc17_cs06	Online
18	Wireless Ad Hoc And Sensor Networks	Prof. Sudip Misra	IIT Kharagpur	noc17_cs07	Online
19	Information Security-3	Prof. Kamakoti Veezhinathan	IIT Madras	noc17_cs08	Online
20	Design And Analysis Of Algorithms	Prof. Madhavan Mukund	CMI	noc17_cs09	Online
21	Programming, Data Structures And Algorithms Using Python	Prof. Madhavan Mukund	CMI	noc17_cs10	Online
22	Introduction To Haskell Programming	Prof. S.P.Suresh	CMI	noc17_cs11	Online
23	Ai:Constraint Satisfaction	Prof. Deepak Khemani	IIT Madras	noc17_cs12	Online
24	Earth Sciences For Civil Engineering - Part 2	Prof. Javed N. Malik	IIT Kanpur	noc17_ce13	Online
25	Foundations Of Wavelets And Multirate Digital Signal Processing	Prof. V.M.Gadre	IIT Bombay	noc17_ee05	Online
26	Principles Of Communication Systems - Part 1	Prof. Aditya Jagannatham	IIT Kanpur	noc17_ee06	Online
27	An Introduction To Coding Theory	Prof. Adrish Banerjee	IIT Kanpur	noc17_ee07	Online
28	Probability And Random Variables/ Processes For Wireless Communications	Prof. Aditya K. Jagannatham	IIT Kanpur	noc17_ee08	Online
29	Analog Circuits	Prof. Jayanta Mukherjee	IIT Bombay	noc17_ee10	Online
30	Millimeter Wave Technology	Prof. Mrinal Kanti Mandal	IIT Kharagpur	noc17_ec04	Online
31	Outcome Based Pedagogic Principles For Effective Teaching	Prof. Shyamal Kumar Das Mandal & Prof. Tamali Bhattacharyya	IIT Kharagpur	noc17_ge03	Online
32	Basic Calculus For Engineers, Scientists And Economists	Prof. Joydeep Dutta	IIT Kanpur	noc17_hs04	Online
33	Depreciation, Alternate Investment And Profitability Analysis	Prof. Bikash Mohanty	IIT Roorkee	noc17_hs06	Online
34	Infrastructure Economics	Prof. Nalin Bharti	IIT Patna	noc17_hs08	Online
35	Language And Mind	Prof. Rajesh Kumar	IIT Madras	noc17_hs09	Online
36	Literary Theory And Literary Criticism	Prof. Aysha Iqbal	IIT Madras	noc17_hs10	Online
37	Postcolonial Literature	Prof. Sayan Chattopadhyay	IIT Kanpur	noc17_hs12	Online
38	Emotional Intelligence	Prof. Rabindra Kumar Pradhan	IIT Kharagpur	noc17_hs13	Online
39	Health Research Fundamentals	Dr. Sanjay Mehendale  Dr. Manoj V Murhekar  Dr. R Ramakrishnan  Dr. Tarun Bhatnagar  Dr. Prabhdeep Kaur  Dr. P. Manickam  Dr. P GaneshKumar	NIE	noc17_hs14	Online
40	Project Management	Prof. Raghunandan Sengupta	IIT Kanpur	noc17_mg01	Online
41	Consumer Behaviour	Prof. Srabanti Mukherjee	IIT Kharagpur	noc17_mg05	Online
42	Foundation Course In Managerial Economics	Prof. Barnali Nag	IIT Kharagpur	noc17_mg06	Online
43	Knowledge Management	Prof. K B L Srivastava	IIT Kharagpur	noc17_mg07	Offline
44	Services Marketing: A Practical Approach	Prof. Biplab Datta	IIT Kharagpur	noc17_mg09	Online
45	Introduction to Operations Research	Prof. G.Srinivasan	IIT Madras	noc17_mg10	Online
46	Strategy: An Introduction To Game Theory	Prof. Aditya K. Jagannatham & Prof. Vimal Kumar	IIT Kanpur	noc17_mg11	Online
47	Fundamentals Of Material Processing - Part 2	Prof. Shashank Shekhar & Prof. Anshu Gaur	IIT Kanpur	noc17_mm02	Online
48	Modeling Transport Phenomena Of Microparticles	Prof. S Bhattacharyya & Prof. Gp Raja Sekhar	IIT Kharagpur	noc17_ma07	Offline
49	Linear Regression Analysis And Forecasting	Prof. Shalabh	IIT Kanpur	noc17_ma08	Online
50	Heat Transfer And Combustion In Multiphase Systems	Prof. Saptarshi Basu	IIT Bangalore	noc17_me07	Offline
51	Introduction To Mechanical Vibration	Prof. Anil Kumar	IIT Roorkee	noc17_me08	Online
52	Joining Technologies for metals	Prof. Dheerendra Kumar Dwivedi	IIT Roorkee	noc17_me09	Online
53	Modelling And Simulation Of Dynamic Systems	Prof. Pushparaj Mani Pathak	IIT Roorkee	noc17_me10	Online
54	Principles Of Casting Technology	Prof. Pradeep Kumar Jha	IIT Roorkee	noc17_me11	Online
55	Steam And Gas Power Systems	Prof. Ravi Kumar	IIT Roorkee	noc17_me12	Online
56	Basics Of Noise And Its Measurements	Prof. Nachiketa Tiwari	IIT Kanpur	noc17_me15	Online
57	Non Traditional Abrasive Machining Processes- Ultrasonic, Abrasive Jet And Abrasive Water Jet Machining	Prof. Asimava Roy Choudhury	IIT Kharagpur	noc17_me17	Online
58	Surface Engineering Of Nanomaterials	Prof. Kaushik Pal	IIT Roorkee	noc17_mm05	Online
59	Analysis And Modeling Of Welding	Prof. Gandham Phanikumar	IIT Madras	noc17_mm06	Online
60	Fundamentals Of Electronic Materials And Devices	Prof. Parasuraman Swaminathan	IIT Madras	noc17_mm07	Online
61	Matlab Programming For Numerical Computation	Prof. Niket Kaisare	IIT Madras	noc17_ge02	Online
62	Introduction To Research	Prof. Prathap Haridoss	IIT Madras	noc17_ge01	Online
63	Fiber Optics	Prof. Vipul Rastogi	IIT Roorkee	noc17_ph01	Online
64	Computational Science And Engineering Using Python	Prof. Mahendra Verma	IIT Kanpur	noc17_ph02	Online

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Answers/ Solutions to Assignment 4

Dear Participants,

The answers/ solutions to Assignment 4 have been uploaded on the website. Hopefully all of you have scored very well on the assignment.

In case of any clarifications, please feel free to get in touch with me.

Regards,
Mohua Dutta

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Assignment 4 due tomorrow

Dear All,

This is just to remind everyone that Assignment 4 is due tomorrow i.e. 21st February, and the deadline is 23.59 hours. The website will not accept any submissions after this. The answers will be released day after, ie 22nd February.

To reiterate, submission of all the assignments are required to be able to sit for the final exam and carry 25% of the total weightage. For any further clarifications, please feel free to get in touch with us.

Regards,
Mohua Dutta

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Answers/ Solutions to Assignment 3

Dear Participants,

The answers/ solutions to Assignment 3 have been uploaded on the website. Hopefully all of you have scored very well on the assignment.

In case of any clarifications, please feel free to get in touch with me.

Regards,
Mohua Dutta

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Last 1 week for Exam Registartion - Hurry up!!!

Dear student

The certification exam will be conducted at designated centres in the city chosen by you. You have to register for the exam by filling up the form, paying the exam fee and appear in person to get the certificate.

Register for the exam today at: http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/

Exam registration form closes on 22 February 2017 at 10:00am.

For other details about exam registration, please check our previous announcement.

Type of exam: Online

Online:

You will have to appear at the allotted exam centre and produce your Hall ticket and Government Identification Card(Example: Driving License,Passport, PAN card, Voter ID, Aadhaar-ID with your Name, date of birth, photograph and signature) for verification and take the exam in person. You can find the exam allotted exam center details in the hall ticket.

The questions will be on the computer and the answers will have to be entered on the computer; type of questions may include multiple choice questions, fill in the blanks, essay type answers, etc

The hall ticket will be available for download tentatively around 15th March 2017.


FINAL CERTIFICATE:

The final score = 25% assignment score + 75% final certification exam score.

The final score will determine if you will/will not receive a certificate.

1. Final score < 40%: NO certificate
2. Final score between 40% -59%: Certificate of type "Successfully completing the course"
3. Final score between 60% -89%: Certificate with tag "Elite" printed at the top
4. Final score of 90% and above: Certificate with "Elite" tag and the gold medal printed on it.

The sample format is attached here for your reference:


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Photos of Toppers in every course are published on the website http://nptel.ac.in/noc along with the name of the college/organization you belong to.

Click here to take a look at a sample page: http://nptel.ac.in/noc/individual_course.php?id=noc16-ce12

Best of luck for the exams.

- NPTEL team

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Postcolonial Literature - Assignment 4 Released

Dear Participants,

Assignment-4 for the course "Postcolonial Literature" has been released on the portal.

The last date to submit the assignment is 21/02/2017, 11:59 pm.

Happy Learning!

Thanks and Regards,
NPTEL Team

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Assignment 3 due today

Dear All,

This is just to remind everyone that Assignment 3 is due today i.e. 14th February, and the deadline is 23.59 hours. The website will not accept any submissions after this. The answers will be released tomorrow, ie 15th February.

To reiterate, submission of all the assignments are required to be able to sit for the final exam and carry 25% of the total weightage. For any further clarifications, please feel free to get in touch with us.

Regards,
Mohua Dutta

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Postcolonial Literature - Week 4 Videos Available

Dear Participants,

Week 4 lectures for the course "Postcolonial Literature" have been released on the portal.

Happy Learning!

Thanks and Regards,
NPTEL Team

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Postcolonial Literature - Assignment 3 Released

Dear Participants,

Assignment-3 for the course "Postcolonial Literature" has been released on the portal. 

The last date to submit the assignment is 14/02/2017, 11:59 pm.

Happy Learning!

Thanks & Regards,

NPTEL Team

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Answers/ Solutions to Assignments 1 & 2

Dear Participants,

Please follow the below mentioned links to check the answers/ solutions to Assignments 1 & 2 :

Solution to Assignment 1: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxC7SUipKs8cS0FEQUhBNGFsWEU 

Solution to Assignment 2: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxC7SUipKs8cSUlOWkNXM1R3Szg

Hopefully all of you have scored very well on both the assignments. In case of any clarifications, please feel free to get in touch with me.

Regards,
Mohua Dutta

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Assignment 1 & 2 due tomorrow

Dear All,

This is just to remind everyone that both Assignments 1 & 2 are due tomorrow i.e. 7th February, and the deadline is 23.59 hours. The website will not accept any submissions after this. The answers will be released on 8th February. 

To reiterate, submission of all the assignments are required to be able to sit for the final exam and carry 25% of the total weightage.

For any further clarifications, please feel free to get in touch with us.

Regards,
Mohua Dutta

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Postcolonial Literature - Week 3 Videos Available

Dear Participants,

Week 3 lectures for the course "Postcolonial Literature" have been released on the portal. The assignments will be released on 8th February and will be due on 14th February.

Happy Learning!

Thanks and Regards,
NPTEL Team

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Examination pattern for final exams

Dear All,

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Reminder 1: REGISTER TODAY - CERTIFICATION EXAM FORM IS NOW OPEN!

Dear Student:

Here is the much-awaited announcement on registering for the March 2017 certification exam. The registration for the certification exam is only open to students who have enrolled in the course.

Registration is open from 2nd FEBRUARY 2017 (Thursday) until 22nd FEBRUARY 2017 10:00 AM (Wednesday). 

The certification exam registration URL is: http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/

(If you want to register for the exam for this course, login here using the same email id used to enroll to the course)

Dates of exam: 26^th March 2017(Sunday) [Forenoon-Shift 1/Afternoon Shift 2] (You can choose any one shift according to your convenience for writing the exam). You can register for a maximum of 2 course exams (same day of exam – 2 sessions. Same exam city will be allocated for both the sessions) through this form.

Exam Session time: Shift 1 - 9.00AM -12.00PM ; Shift 2 - 2.00PM - 5.00PM
Examination Cities: The exam is to be conducted in several cities across India whose list is available on the registration form.

Click here to access the list of exam cities: http://nptel.ac.in/LocalChapter/Assets/spoc_refdocs/March%202017%20Exam%20cities.pdf

 Registration fees: Rs 1000/-
(Students belonging to the SC/ST category can avail a 50% fee waiver - please select Yes for the SC/ST option and upload the correct Community certificate)

Mode of payment:  Online payment - debit card/credit card/net banking.

HALL TICKET:

The hall ticket will be available for download tentatively between 12 -16th March 2017. We will confirm the same through an announcement once it is published.

Final score on certificate: 25% of assignment score + 75% of certification exam score.
Award of certificate:  Hard and soft copy of Certificate will be awarded only to those candidates who register for the exam, attend the certificate examination and whose Final score > 40%

The final score, assignment score and exam score will be printed on the certificate. The certificate will also have a link to the NPTEL website (http://nptel.ac.in/noc), where on logging in, your scores and e-certificate will be available for verification  (Appropriate announcements will be made). Please do regularly submit assignments to get a good final score.

IMPORTANT NOTES

1) FOR CANDIDATES WHO WOULD LIKE TO WRITE MORE THAN 1 COURSE EXAM:- Once the registration form is submitted after payment, no changes like adding or removing the chosen course, exam shift, city is possible. So, if you are choosing to write 2 course exams, please choose suitably and make the payment for both courses at the same time. It is not possible to pay later for the second course. Once the payment is made, the registration form will be non-editable.

2) FOR CANDIDATES WHO HAVE GOT SCHOLARSHIP VIA YOUR LOCAL CHAPTER: -  
Students who have got scholarship via NPTEL local chapter can opt to pay individually using the above form. While doing so, the reduced fee will automatically apply.

3) FOR CANDIDATES WHO ARE PAYING VIA THE LOCAL CHAPTER OF YOUR COLLEGE:- 
There are 2 modes of operation:

Option 1

1. You will pay fees to your SPOC.

2. Your SPOC will pay the fees to NPTEL on your behalf and also will provide us all details including photo, signature.

3. We will populate all the fields in the exam form.

4. Your responsibility will be to come to the exam form and verify that the details in the exam form are correct.

Option 2

1. In the exam form, you will fill all the details and also upload photo, signature.

2. Ensure that you had selected your college name correctly from the drop-down list in the form.

3. Payment of exam fees - click on the tab - 'PAY VIA SPOC'.

The SPOC has to now confirm to NPTEL that he/she will pay fees on your behalf.

If the SPOC says NO, you will be intimated via email.

Then it becomes your responsibility to come back to the exam form and make the payment.

If you do not pay the exam fees within the prescribed time, you will not be able to write the exam.

After submitting the form, in case you wish to change the name, date of birth, address, photo and signature Please login to http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/edit_details.php and make the changes till February 22, 2017.

The following data initially submitted cannot be changed –email id, course selected, shift, exam city, SC/ST. For changes in this email us at nptel@iitm.ac.in giving your Application number, email id and name. No changes will be entertained in these details after February 22 2017.

Thanks & Regards,

NPTEL TEAM

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Postcolonial Literature - Assignment 2 Released

Dear Participants,

The Assignment-2 for the course "Postcolonial Literature" has been released on the portal.

The last date to submit the assignment is 07/02/2017, 11:59 pm.

Happy Learning!

Thanks & Regards,

NPTEL Team

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Link to Download the videos from NPTEL Website

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Postcolonial Literature - Week 2 Videos Available

Dear Participants,

The week-2 video lectures for the course "Postcolonial Literature" have been released in the portal.

Happy Learning!


Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team

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Postcolonial Literature - Assignment-1 Released

Dear Participants,

The Assignment-1 for the course "Postcolonial Literature" has been released in the portal. The last date to submit

the assignment is 07/02/2017, 11:59 pm.

Happy Learning!

Thanks & Regards,

NPTEL Team

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Postcolonial Literature - Week 1 Videos Available

Dear Participants,

The week-1 video lectures for the course "Postcolonial Literature" have been released in the portal.

Happy Learning!

Thanks & Regards,

NPTEL Team

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Welcome to NPTEL Online Certification Course - Postcolonial Literature