NPTEL in association with acm india and google has planned to conduct National Programming Aptitude Test (NPAT) on 13 August 2017. The students can sign up from July 9 2017 to august 13, 2017 up to 10.45 AM. After signing in the student can learn and practice programming in c,c++ and Java.The NPAT exam starts at 11.00 AM on August 13, 2017. The scores will be shared with potential employers who can use this pool to recruit. The link for registration is. https://npat.nptel.ac.in . This whole initiative is free of cost.