Editorial

Compared to the past three years, this year's Chemistry paper is very easy and as the students remarked, many can score high marks. This paper is also concept based as in physics. What we find is a change in the philosophy of IIT's. This change is for growth. Our congratulations to IIT’s for belling the cat.

The change in the pattern of chemistry paper is only in line with the CBSE medical paper where it is always the concepts that are emphasized.

The number of institutions that offer medicine and technology have enormously increased of late. While medicine remains the choice for many bright students. A number of students have chosen other opportunities although they had cleared medical exams.

Food technology and biomedical research are some of the branches which are ideally suited for getting placements in big institutions. While competition is more for the routine jobs, people who have chosen off-beat courses have also done well.

Agriculture, architecture, growing vines and flowers have become hot market winners.

A knowledge of chemistry is particularly suited for manufacturing units of polymers which have grown beyond imagination, whether it is for dress materials or even replacement of iron pipes and wooden doors. Polymer studies are equally popular outside; particularly the study of dielectrics overlaps physics and chemistry.

While instrumental analysis holds sway in most of the laboratories, the good old analytical chemistry methods have come to stay. Whatever may be your choice, rest assured that our best wishes are always with you.