About This Guide: This document explains the purpose of various WhatsApp groups that are part of the Margdarshak 25-26 Community. Though group names are intuitive, please go through the detailed description of each group to understand its purpose.
Important: Please enroll yourself in all the relevant groups and post your messages in the appropriate groups only.
This WhatsApp group is mandatory and you are automatically enrolled in this group. Only the Margdarshak Admin Team will have the ability to post the relevant content in this group.
This group is to cover discussions on the topic of design and architecture schools.
It includes programs like B.Des, B.Arch.
It includes institutions like NID.
There could be some overlap in the way some institutions use JEE mains, we will apply judgement in using the appropriate group.
This group is specifically dedicated to Karnataka CET and COMED K, since we have a large number of parents in this group who are based in Karnataka.
COMED K is available to people outside Karnataka as well. So those parents who are interested in COMED K also need to join this group.
This group is for discussion about admission to IIT/ NIT/ IIIT/ BITS.
This group is also about JEE Main and JEE Advanced, BITSAT and the entrance exams for some of the IIIT (e.g. Hyderabad)
This group is for discussion about admission to all engineering colleges, other than those that are clearly called out in the two other engineering groups.
This includes VIT, MIT, Amrita, Sastra, Shiv Nadar, MHCET, TNEA
This includes their entrance exams, counselling/ admission process.
We are aware that there are some institutions (notably PESU) which use the JEE Main score. So in such cases, keep the discussion about the JEE Main exams in the other group, and anything related to how PESU or other colleges use it in this group.
This also includes things like Tamil Nadu counselling where there are no entrance exams.
This group is meant for discussion about engineering options, comparisons, and understanding the variations in various branches.
This group also will cover topics where people want to discuss comparing/ choosing between engineering, science and maths...
Important: This GROUP is NOT meant to discuss any exams, or processes for joining colleges, applying, form filling.
This group is meant for discussions on admission to medical schools, including Dental AYUSH.
This group is meant for discussions about options in science and mathematics. It includes institutions like IISc, IISER, CMI, ISI, NISER and others which provide opportunities in science and mathematics.
There could be discussions which could span between engineering and this group (e.g Biomed, Biotech, CS & Mathematics). We will use judgement to decide where to handle those discussions.
This group is meant to handle questions that only fellow parents are in a good position to help you with.
Things like websites are up or down, login not working, payment challenges, how to print…
It's also the group when parents want to find out where the office is for something, who's going to be in this centre, traffic to the hall etc.
Important: Please DO NOT bring such topics into the other groups.