To give 40 per cent weightage for Board exam score
The National Institutes of Technology (NITs) on Wednesday adopted the new Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) system for admission to undergraduate engineering programmes from 2013. It has decided to give 40 per cent weightage to board results and 60 per cent weightage to the main exam for preparing the merit list.
However, the JEE was adopted with a small change as the students seeking admission to these institutes would not have to appear for the advance test as had been proposed earlier.
The 40 per cent weightage to the Class XII board results will be given after the process of normalisation of state boards’ marks which would be looked at by a committee comprising NIT directors. The committee will look into validation of the formulae already proposed for normalisation of marks with the respective board results.
The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) had last week approved a formula for admission to undergraduate engineering programmes in centrally funded institutions which advocated the preparation of merit lists on the basis of the performance of the 20 percentile of successful board-exam candidates in the proposed advance test.
The government’s proposal of a common entrance test for the IITs and other centrally funded institutes was rejected by IIT Kanpur and IIT Delhi, both of whose senates had announced separate entrance tests for their institutes.
Under the new system, for admission to all the centrally funded institutes like the NITs there would be 40 percentage weightage for performance in Class XII (after normalisation of marks), 30 per cent weightage for the main test and 30 per cent in the advanced test. However, for admission to IITs, the final merit list will include scores of the advanced test and the aspirant will have to be among the top 20 percentile in the State Board.
Maharashtra, Gujarat and Haryana have already announced their decision to adopt the government’s proposal for their State-run engineering colleges. States and private engineering colleges can also adopt the common entrance test but will have to give minimum 40 per cent weightage to Board results. Several deemed-to-be-universities have expressed their willingness to adopt the common national test.
Keywords: NIT, JEE, NIT entrance test
There is lot of copying in board exams, not at all centres but inrural areas. Including
boardmarks is not desirable. Mediocre or mischievous students will find place in meritorious
colleges
There has been lot of fuss and emotion behind the entrance pattern for IITs/NITs/IIITs. It is understandable that people are generally reluctant to 'change' upfront and it will ease out eventually. with the current system adopted by NIT council, I have a feeling that as the board marks are also included, it will encourage economically backward students and students without much coaching to try and get admitted to the top institutes of India. Regarding the proposed system of 40% board weightage, I have observed that most of my NIT friends were in the top 5 of their school in the board exams, and that made them almost in the top 5-10 percentile of the board. When the scores are put forward out of 100, the difference of 10 percentile will only cause a difference in 4 marks in NIT admission. Any student who is conceptually brilliant can easily offset this 4 mark difference in the entrance exam and yet get placed in a top NIT. I wish prospective students of 2013 all the very best !
Most of students score in board's exam by memorizing. Entrance test enable students to apply what they read. As reasoning is important entrance test should be given full weightage. There are chances that in boards practical exams, bias may occur.
what about droppers ?
It seems so unfair, let Entrance exam have a minimum criteria for form
filling. I have so many students those who have scored 90% in XII but
thr entrance exam(AIEEE) marks are in Lacs, and mixing things will have
a negative effect.
Sir,
Can we have a comprehensive guideline for all students of 2013 &
onwards regarding IIT, NIT ets. as the article does not paint a simple
picture..Confusing for all..
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