I was just poking around my webstat interface, and I found this script that tells me the search engines people have used to reach my blog directly, and the keywords they used. I was quite surprised to note that nearly 30% of the traffic I get is because people land up on my blog while searching for variants of the keyword: "BITSAT 2006 cutoff". Its surprising because my blog contains absolutely no information about BITSAT cut offs or anything. Then I remembered my post about my experience of giving the BITSAT-06 in Noida (Remember the post: Marooned with a computer in Noida?). Quite funny, the search engines of today still have a long way to go before achieving decent relevance-rating. Oh and the Webstat interface also confirmed one thing: Google is the No. 1 search engine, since people have used only Google to reach to my site.
Now, I'll be a little smart. Since it is driving traffic to this blog, I'll actually put up the real cut-offs for BITS and some info. ;-)
The First-Iteration cut-off mark for 2006 is 317. The people above 280 are in the first-iteration waiting list. So this year the cut-offs appear to have gone higher. I have heard that last year's first-iteration cut-off mark was 290 or something. The next three iterations went at 260, 250 and 245.
The last seat at BITS Pilani last year went at 252 (MSc. Bio) and in BITS Goa at 245 (MSc. Bio), and Computer Science at Pilani went at 351. Engineering finished in Pilani at 301 (Civil) and in Goa at 289 (Chem).
