IIT Delhi launches IIT-PAL portal to help students prepare for competitive exams

IIT-PAL (IIT-Professor Assisted Learning), an initiative of the Ministry of Education to provide free video lectures to students of Class 11 and 12, has been started. The aim is to make the students understand the science subjects (physics, chemistry, maths and biology) better and help self-studying students do well in competitive exams such as Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) and National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET). 

To boost this effort, IIT-PAL’s coordinating institute Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi has now launched an interactive IIT-PAL website (https://iitpal.iitd.ac.in/). The portal will act as a single platform where students across India can access video lectures that are telecast on the Ministry of Education’s Swayam Prabha channels, interact live with IIT professors and ask them questions.

“This website will be helpful to students especially from regions where they may not have access to specialist teachers in science subjects and coaching opportunities,” said Joby Joseph, IIT Delhi and national coordinator, IIT-PAL. The newly launched website lists the video lectures as per the NCERT syllabus of mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology in Classes 11 and 12, so that the interested students can progressively learn each of the subject topics given in the syllabus.  

Features of IIT-PAL website 

The website has the following features that are managed by a team of professors from various IITs in the country:  

• Registered students can submit their topic-wise doubts in English or Hindi. A team of professors at IIT-PAL will coordinate to find answers to these questions. Answers to selected questions will be posted on the website, which can be viewed by all registered students. 
• Registered students may also request for a live interaction on specific topics in English or Hindi. Once there are enough requests on specific topics, a schedule of these live interaction sessions will be announced on the website. According to the schedule, students can interact live with the teacher through an online video platform. 

The IIT PAL video lectures that are telecast on Swayam Prabha Channels can be accessed on Doordarshan DTH Channel 22 and are also available at https://swayamprabha.gov.in/. 

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