Helping for free??? Are you guys NUTS ?

No we are not psychos planning to help till the time we go bankrupt and the run to the hills :) goIIT is a community to provide a platform to students and the expert community to come together to achieve their dreams...the Engineering Entrance and Board Exams. We survive using voluntary help from people and revenue from advertisements.

 Who are these experts?

goIIT experts are people from various walks of life, all with the common passion for science, IITJEE, AIEEE & Board problems. Their profiles range from college professors, iit alumni, coaching teachers, current iit students, technocrats. They have been hand-picked from the network of iit delhi and powai alumni and growing organically.

 How can i ask questions to an Expert ?

To post a question to an Expert at goIIT, all you need to do is :

• Put on the famous song from Beetles "help...i need soembody...help...." in the tape-recorder :)
• Create a user account on goIIT.
• On joining you get nickels to ask (see next question). Use these nickels to ask an expert.

 What is a goIIT nickel ?

Money....called Rupee in india, Dollar in U.S.A, Euro in Europe...and nickel in goIIT!. A nickel is a goIIT currency, which is used to ask questions to an expert. Just a simple set of economic rules:
	On joining you get 6 nickels to ask an expert. You spend 2 nickels for asking a single question to an expert. If your nickels exhaust, you can earn more nickels by referring friends (see link on top of the site) On referring one friendand making him join goIIT, you get 6 nickels. You can contribute interesting and useful articles to the goiit community shelf.

 How many nickels does it cost to ask a question ?

To ask a question, you have to spend 2 nickels

 How can I earn more nickels to ask experts?

- To earn more nickels, you have to refer friends. You can refer any number of friends. For each friend that joins, you get 6 nickels to ask further.

- Another way of earning cool nickels and user salutes is to drop academic/non-academic articles on Community Shelf

 How many questions can I ask in one topic to the expert ?

When you create a new topic for asking the experts, you can ask only one question. The question could be a query from your jee syllabus, our school board exams, your exam planning, on iits, aieee's, cbse, icse, state boards or even a question from a standard book (typed for the community in the forums). However, you can ask only one question at a time. If more than one question is asked, the moderator disregards the query, or requests the experts to answer just the first question of the list (deciding on a case by case basis).

 How many questions can I ask to the experts in a day ?

You can ask maximum 3 questions in a day to the expert team. You can ask any number of questions in the discussion community. This is to give a fair chance to everyone to ask their queries to the experts.

 How long does it take for an expert query to be answered?

We usually request the experts to answer the query within 24 to 36 hours . However, there are times (usually weekends), when the experts are unavailable .Further, there are times when the experts might take longer to collect data or verify problems. In those cases, the queries take longer.

 How is the discuss with community different from ask an expert ?

You can discuss problems with the community or post it to experts. In "Discuss with Community, the problem is posted for students to discuss within the gang. Here the experts do not need to answer. They only answer if they have time or enthusiasm. On the contrary, "Ask an Expert" queries are targeted directly to the experts.

 How can I become a goIIT expert ?

If you have a passion to solve complex queries, and guide students towards a common goal, or just be the master player in the world of jee - one of the the most difficult admission test on planet, you are fit for this job. All you need to do is:

Create an account

Drop us a message by clicking this link, by just mentioning your profile and the field of interest.

Start answering problems on the site as a member.

The expert panel will review you for a few days, and then the coordinator will contact you through email.

 What are the benefits of becoming a goIIT expert ?

You cant help people and get away with it cheap..huh? :) well goIIT is ensures that you reap the fruits of your work. So the top experts get some monitory benefit as a token of appreciation from the team. However the amount and decision of who and how the benefits are shared, are strictly at the discretion of goIIT (and the water/electricity bill at the goIIT office)

Are the experts answers completely accurate?

Usually the experts, with the kind of profiles they have, should be correct in whatever they say. However, as they say "shit happens"...and we are no different! So at times they might make mistakes, which are rectified as soon as they are identified.

 How to type questions with formulae?

To type a question with formula, you can use the editor. the editor has a symbol button, which when clicked, opens up a panel to create symbols and superscripts(xxxx^yyyy) and subscripts(xxxx_yyyy). To add a symbol. just click on it. To create a super/sub script, select the text to be made super/sub and click on the x^y or x_y button).
*Note: Currently the editor has some small issues which at times makes it difficult to type. However..ahmmm...the problem will be fixed in the nearessst future.

 Can I draw/upload images ?

Yes Ofcourse!. To upload a diagram of an image while writing a post, just click on the attach files button. once you submit your post, the image will be uploaded too.

  What are the altitude, salutes and boinks that i see on posts and users?

Knock Knock!! Who is it?...DON...

Are you the Don of the world of complex problems? This is the point tally that decides who's the Big Boss. Your ranking is decided by the number of good and the bads you offer to the world, and their feedback to the same. For every post you write, the users can rate them as:

	a boink (bad job dude!! What were you thinking! no sirr...i dont approve of this answer!)
	a thumbsup (i agree with your answer. this problem is asked/solved correctly in my opiniun.)
	a salute (Olaaa!! You rock dude! Awesome answer.Right on the money.)

The three factors decide your Altitude - the meters of your current height, which is a simple calculation of:

altitude = [5 * ] + [2 * ] - [2 *] metres

 How to rate a user answer ? How to figure which is the best answer to a query?

To rate an answer, just login to the system, and click on one of the images on the bottom-right side of the answer. Once you confirm your vote, the post gets rated, and the rating starts reflecting in the users rating. So when you rate a user, please use it judiciously. For once, you get to give marks to people :)

Note: You cannot give boinks to people directly and need to message the admin/moderator for the same with reason. Afterall playing with someone's reputation is a very responsible task!

The best chosen answer would be the one with the maximum Alitutude and Salutes and minimum Boinks

 What is the utility of the salutes/boinks to a user ?

A users salutes, boinks and the ratings help you decide how trustworthy the user is. However, besides everything, this rating is just of the many things you can use to impress your friends ;) However, from time to time, goIIT will also keep giving some special promotions offers for the top rated users. Yet again, the discretion for the same would be in hands of goIIT alone.

 What is the Accept Answer button. Why should I use it?

Once a user has asked a question, and before an expert has replied to the question the user has the option to accept a specific answer which he thinks satisfies his query. However, the immediate benefit of Accept answer is that If an answer from a community member is accepted by the user who posted it, the nickels for the user are returned, i.e. he can ask another question to the experts for the same nickels. However, if a user accepts an answer after an expert has responded, the nickels are not returned (unless intervened by the moderation team).

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 What is an Accepted Answer ?

An Accepted answer is the answer which the person who has asked the question, has selected as the most satisfactory answer for his query.

 What is a Nudgebook? Why is it required ?

A goIIT nudgebook is a normal scrap book that you can use to message your friends in the community. The reason why it came into existence was the dire need of one-on-one brain wracking required between students. So you got something to talk to your pal about, or if you wish to buzz them for answering their queries, or even if you want to thank them for a great concept they shared on the forum - just nudge them!

 What is goIIT thermo-meter. What does it signify?

Your temperature is decided with the heat of activity you generate on goIIT. So more active you are on the portal, the hotter is your temperature. So its more of an activity meter.

 What is goIIT Community Shelf?

Community Shelf is a place where you will be able to upload your own contributions to the goIIT material. Contribution can be anything from a simple funda that you cracked last night, to a solution for a problem (which you think is good in some way), to an article you read somewhere and would like to share with everyone, or one of your own articles on subject of your choice.

For every contribution you make to the shelf, the moderation community will review the material and award you nickels for the same! The number of nickels awarded would depend on the clarity and the quality of the contribution. The more graphical (if reqd.), explainatory and useful the contribution is, the more the nickels & user ratings you can win.

 On What basis are nickels awarded on Community Shelf?

Nickels are awarded on the article across the range of 0 to 50 (or more!!) based on the following parameters listed in order of decreasing priority (most important first):
    I. usefulness/relevance (how useful the article is to the community)
    II. originality (is it original or taken from somewhere)
    III. clarity of article
    IV. tagging with right keywords (reusing existing keywords)
    V. presentation (whether diagrams have been drawn to explain etc)
Important thing to note here is that an academic article is given more preference and the nickels awarded range from 5 to 50+. For non-academic articles, nickels awarded are usually in the range of 1 to 5.