IITM Student Community (iitmdatascience.com) vs IITM BS Students' Corner

Short answer: iitmdatascience.com calls itself "IITM Student Community". It is a private, paid coaching website: its qualifier coaching plans cost ₹400 and ₹599 through YouTube channel memberships, and it lists graded assignment solution videos. It is not an official IIT Madras community. IITM BS Students' Corner is free and needs no login.

IITM Student Community vs IITM BS Students' Corner at a glance

Is IITM Student Community the official IITM BS community?

No. iitmdatascience.com is a private website that sells coaching. IIT Madras runs the programme at study.iitm.ac.in, and students discuss their courses on the programme's own Discourse forum.

IITM qualifier coaching: paid or free?

Its qualifier coaching page offers three-hour daily classes, notes and doubt sessions, with a "100% refund if not selected" promise that needs 95% attendance. When we checked, the page still said the classes run "till 24th February 24".

You don't need to pay to prepare for the qualifier. The four weeks of course content, the official lectures and these free guides cover the same syllabus:

Do You Need Coaching for the IITM BS Qualifier? Qualifier Syllabus: Week-by-Week Topics A 4-Week Study Plan for the IITM BS Data Science Qualifier

Graded assignment solutions

iitmdatascience.com lists graded assignment solution videos for Maths 1 (assignments 1 to 12), Computational Thinking, Statistics 1 and English 1.

We don't publish graded assignment answers. Your qualifier hall ticket depends on your own graded assignment scores in weeks 1 to 3, and the qualifier exam tests the same concepts, so understanding them pays off on exam day.

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Re-exam coaching and rank booster videos

Its re-exam coaching is priced by the subjects you choose, and its "rank booster" videos are YouTube playlists of qualifier questions. If you are taking the qualifier again, start here:

Failed or Missed the IITM BS Qualifier Exam? The Second Attempt

WhatsApp groups

The site says it gives private WhatsApp or Telegram group links to enrolled, paying members.

Which should you use?

• Use iitmdatascience.com only if you want paid live coaching and are happy to pay through YouTube memberships.
• Use IITM BS Students' Corner for free notes, official lectures by week and clear guides to the qualifier, fees and exams.