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The IIT admission muddle this year has forced the government to rethink the admission policy for future.
According to sources in the HRD ministry, the Centre has proposed changes to the top-20-percentile eligibility criterion for admission to the IITs next year. This was discussed at the meeting called by HRD minister MM Pallam Raju last week to review the IIT and NIT admissions this time.
Officials present at the meeting confirmed that top-20-percentile criterion for IITs could carry a rider from next year that a candidate who has cleared JEE-Advance will be eligible for admission if he/she is in the top 20 percentile of the Class XII board examination or has secured at least 80% in the Boards exams, which ever is lower.
“This, however, is not a final decision and is subject to the approval of Joint Admission Board and the IIT Council,” said Professor HC Gupta, organising chairman of JEE -Advance this year. The JAB is scheduled to meet on August 25 and the IIT Council on September 3.
This rethink has come in wake of a recent admission controversy where 79 aspirants were denied admission to the IITs after getting initial offer as they did not meet the top-20-percentile cut-off marks of their respective schools boards. Many of such aggrieved students were from Andhra Pradesh, who had cleared the entrance test but missed the 92% cut-off marks of Andhra Boards exams by just one or two per cent.
“We don’t want to penalise a student who is so good that he has managed a good rank in the JEE Advance and even got above 80% in Board exams but hasn’t met the 20 percentile cut-off which is in the 90s,” said Gupta explaining the rationale of proposing the rider to the 20 percentile eligibility rule. He, however, ruled out any concession for the 79 students who were denied admission this year.
According to ministry sources, the government could also revisit the normalisation formula meant for admission to the NITs but subject to the ruling of the Supreme Court where a matter regarding the formula is still pending.
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Eligibility norms for IITs may be relaxed
While the overall pattern of the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) for
admission to IITs may remain the same next year, the government
could consider relaxing the eligibility criteria.
But any relaxation can happen only if it is approved by the Joint Admission Board (JAB), a body for deciding admission to IITs, which meets on August 25. The directors of different IITs will review the percentile system for admission this year, which will finally be ratified at the IIT council meeting scheduled for September 3.
The government had made the IIT entrance exam a two-phased one this year – JEE (main) and JEE (advanced). The eligibility criterion was changed from 60% in the board exams to being in the top 20 percentile of his/her board. Only the top 1.5 lakh students of JEE (main) were allowed to appear for JEE (advanced) exam — which was the gateway for selection to IITs.
The top 20 percentile cut offs has varied largely across different boards with some like Andhra board and Tamil Nadu boards having high cut offs of 91.85% and 90.9%, respectively.
Considering the problems that had surfaced with the percentile system this year, a suggestion has been made that all boards whose 20 percentile cut offs are higher than 80 percent should have a common cut off of 80%. The proposal may be disapproved as it doesn’t take into account different categories like SC/ST and OBC. The JAB may also consider increasing the number of students for JEE(advanced) from 1.5 lakh to 2 lakh.
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http://www.dnaindia.com/india/1876936/report-iit-admission-muddle-forces-govt-to-rethink-on-percentile-criterionBut any relaxation can happen only if it is approved by the Joint Admission Board (JAB), a body for deciding admission to IITs, which meets on August 25. The directors of different IITs will review the percentile system for admission this year, which will finally be ratified at the IIT council meeting scheduled for September 3.
The government had made the IIT entrance exam a two-phased one this year – JEE (main) and JEE (advanced). The eligibility criterion was changed from 60% in the board exams to being in the top 20 percentile of his/her board. Only the top 1.5 lakh students of JEE (main) were allowed to appear for JEE (advanced) exam — which was the gateway for selection to IITs.
The top 20 percentile cut offs has varied largely across different boards with some like Andhra board and Tamil Nadu boards having high cut offs of 91.85% and 90.9%, respectively.
Considering the problems that had surfaced with the percentile system this year, a suggestion has been made that all boards whose 20 percentile cut offs are higher than 80 percent should have a common cut off of 80%. The proposal may be disapproved as it doesn’t take into account different categories like SC/ST and OBC. The JAB may also consider increasing the number of students for JEE(advanced) from 1.5 lakh to 2 lakh.
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Government likely to dilute IIT-JEE norms
The change is likely to effectively
dilute criterion for appearing in IIT-JEE (Advanced)
New Delhi: The government has decided to
rework the admission norms for the Indian Institutes of
Technology (IITs), acknowledging flaws in the process,
although the change is likely to effectively dilute the
criterion for appearing in the IIT-Joint Entrance Examination
(Advanced).
The current eligibility norm is that a student be
in the top 20th percentile of students in terms of performance
in the school-leaving (or so-called board) examination and
this will likely be tweaked, two government officials with
direct knowledge of the development said, asking not to be
identified.
The 20th percentile criterion has attracted
several legal challenges.
The officials said that the government is
proposing an alternative criterion of minimum 75% marks in the
school-leaving examination.
The change will benefit students from Andhra
Pradesh, Kerala and those affiliated to the Central Board of
Secondary Education (CBSE) because these boards are believed
to be generous with their marking.
According to one of the two officials, the human
resource development ministry reviewed the system on 14 August
in the presence of officials from the IITs and CBSE. It has
now asked the IITs to take up the matter in the Joint
Admission Board, the apex admissions body of the IITs.
The 75% suggestion isn’t iron-clad, said the
second official, adding that the Joint Admission Board can
decide the cut-off will be 80%.
Interestingly, before the government came up with
its changes in 2012, the cut-off was 60%.
“Percentile is a black box. Students need to know
what’s the minimum mark they need to score, while preparing
for the board exam. A 75% or 80% score will do away with the
existing confusion,” said Pramod
Maheswari, managing director of test prep
company Career
Point Ltd.
“If they return to the minimum percentage score,
it would be a correct move from the students’ point of view,”
he said.
The officials said that while low scoring school
boards such as those of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh can continue
to adhere to the top 20th percentile, others can adopt either
75% or 80% marks. For example, this year, students scoring 91%
from Andhra Pradesh were not eligible for IIT-JEE (Advanced)
as they did not fall within the top 20th percentile.
Last year, the government announced a two-tier
common engineering admission test for entry into all central
government-funded engineering schools. The first part, called
JEE-Main, is for selecting students to all the central
government-funded engineering schools except IITs. The
JEE-Main ranking gives 40% weightage to the school-leaving
examination and 60% to the entrance examination.
The top 150,000 rank holders of JEE-Main are
eligible to write JEE-Advanced, the second part of the
two-tier common exam. JEE Advanced is the gateway to 15 IITs
and Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, but for getting a final
IIT ranking these 150,000 students need to be in the top 20th
percentile of their respective school boards.
After the results for the JEE-Main and Advanced
were announced in May and June this year, many students found
that though they qualified the JEE-Advanced, they were not
within the top 20th percentile and hence not eligible to
compete for a seat.
Consequently, students in Delhi, Andhra Pradesh,
Gujarat and Kerala challenged the results in several high
courts as well as the Supreme Court. Though the apex court did
not stop the admission process, it said that the final
admission would be subject to its verdict. The cases are
pending before the court.
CBSE chairman Vineet
Joshi said he would not comment on the
controversy as the matter is sub judice, but added that any
process could be improved. “After you have conducted an
entrance, you at times feel that there is scope for
improvement,” he said.
The second government official said that all
stakeholders involved agree that school-leaving examinations
need to get their due. “The underlining argument is that
school boards must get enough weight in the IIT selection
procedure. You have to be good at all levels than just
tailor-made for an entrance,” this official said.
In the 14 August review meeting, all stakeholders
also decided to stick to the current multiple choice format of
IIT-JEE, introduced in 2005-06.
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IIT admission muddle forces govt to rethink on percentile criterion
Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013, 8:04 IST | Place: New Delhi | Agency: DNAThe IIT admission muddle this year has forced the government to rethink the admission policy for future.
According to sources in the HRD ministry, the Centre has proposed changes to the top-20-percentile eligibility criterion for admission to the IITs next year. This was discussed at the meeting called by HRD minister MM Pallam Raju last week to review the IIT and NIT admissions this time.
Officials present at the meeting confirmed that top-20-percentile criterion for IITs could carry a rider from next year that a candidate who has cleared JEE-Advance will be eligible for admission if he/she is in the top 20 percentile of the Class XII board examination or has secured at least 80% in the Boards exams, which ever is lower.
“This, however, is not a final decision and is subject to the approval of Joint Admission Board and the IIT Council,” said Professor HC Gupta, organising chairman of JEE -Advance this year. The JAB is scheduled to meet on August 25 and the IIT Council on September 3.
This rethink has come in wake of a recent admission controversy where 79 aspirants were denied admission to the IITs after getting initial offer as they did not meet the top-20-percentile cut-off marks of their respective schools boards. Many of such aggrieved students were from Andhra Pradesh, who had cleared the entrance test but missed the 92% cut-off marks of Andhra Boards exams by just one or two per cent.
“We don’t want to penalise a student who is so good that he has managed a good rank in the JEE Advance and even got above 80% in Board exams but hasn’t met the 20 percentile cut-off which is in the 90s,” said Gupta explaining the rationale of proposing the rider to the 20 percentile eligibility rule. He, however, ruled out any concession for the 79 students who were denied admission this year.
According to ministry sources, the government could also revisit the normalisation formula meant for admission to the NITs but subject to the ruling of the Supreme Court where a matter regarding the formula is still pending.
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IITs mull easing of admission norms |
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New Delhi, Aug. 19: The
Indian Institutes of Technology are planning to relax
norms for admission to BTech courses from next year in a
move that could kick-start another round of reforms
after dozens who cracked the final test failed to make
it.
At least 79 students, who
cleared the JEE Advanced, the second of the two-tier
exam candidates have to pass to enter the elite tech
schools, were denied admission as they didn’t figure
among the top 20 percentile holders in their respective
boards.
Sources said the IITs were
planning to ease the eligibility criteria from top 20
percentile to top 20 percentile or 80 per cent marks in
the Class XII board exam, whichever is lower.
The Joint Admission Board
(JAB), a body of IIT directors, will meet here on Sunday
to discuss the proposal as some directors and academics
feel the existing criterion is too tough. If approved by
the JAB, the proposal will be sent to the IIT Council
for a final decision. The council is scheduled to meet
on September 3.
The 79 students, who had
gone through counselling this year, were denied seats on
the ground that their Class XII score was less than the
top 20 percentile cut-off for their respective
boards.Their boards had earlier declared they were among
the top 20 percentile holders. But the IITs said the
state boards had followed a wrong formula.
The CBSE and 28 state boards
had considered the total number of candidates who
appeared for the Class XII exam to work out the cut-off.
They divided the number of examinees below a candidate
by the total number of candidates and then multiplied
the result by 100 to calculate the percentile.
But the IITs followed a
different procedure. They considered the number of
students passing the board exam as the sample size.
Hence the cut-off for the top 20 percentile worked out
by the IITs was higher than that of the cut-off
calculated by each board. The 79 students, who had
cracked the JEE Advanced, have since moved court.
“Besides the confusion over
the percentile formula, many academics feel the present
eligibility cut-off of top 20 percentile is too high.
Even students securing above 90 per cent marks in
certain boards do not figure in the top 20 percentile.
The JAB will consider a proposal to relax the norms,” a
senior IIT functionary told The Telegraph.
From this year, the
admission process in IITs and the National Institutes of
Technology has gone through several changes. A two-tier
entrance exam — Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main
and JEE Advanced — have been introduced in place of the
AIEEE and the IIT-JEE, respectively.
All aspiring engineers had
to clear the JEE Main. Only the top 1.5 lakh candidates
from the JEE Main were allowed to sit for the JEE
Advanced for entering the IITs.
The IITs also introduced the
percentile criterion. The earlier eligibility criterion
was 60 per cent board marks for general and OBC students
and 55 per cent for Dalit and tribal candidates.
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