As the State gets ready to send a huge contingent to the IITs this year, the new developments over admission procedures in the IITs for next year have sent jitters among the aspirants.
The changes in the IIT admission test from next year, approved by the Joint Councils of IITs, NITs and IIITs on Monday, will ensure that 50 per cent weightage is given to the Intermediate examination. This has come as a jolt to the aspirants who have already completed their first year and are into second year.
The worrying factor is that the IIT and NIT spirants in the State hardly focus on the Intermediate course as its marks were irrelevant for admissions all these years. The corporate colleges don't focus on Intermediate course for their IIT and NIT aspirants, unlike the EAMCET where 25 per cent weightage of Intermediate marks is considered. The sudden changes have certainly annoyed the aspirants, who now have to really work hard to fill that gap in the second year.
“We have to change our academic plans now,” admitted a senior IIT trainer at a corporate college. The corporate colleges are tuned to certain mode of training all these years and now it has to change drastically.
“It might impact the results next year as one year has already gone,” said the senior teacher. However, students who finished their Intermediate this year and wish to improve their scores can appear again for the examinations next year.
Another crucial factor is the evaluation mode of Intermediate. The recent Physics episode is obviously playing on the minds of aspirants since even a few marks difference would alter the ranks drastically. But teachers say the normalisation procedure adopted for weightage in such exams will ensure level playing field.
As per the changed procedure the joint entrance examination for admission to the undergraduate programmes in engineering would be conducted in two parts - JEE-Main and JEE-Advanced. For the IITs 50 per cent weightage is given for Intermediate and 50 per cent for the JEE-Main exam. However, for NITs and other centrally funded institutions, the weightage will be 40 per cent for Intermediate and 30 per cent each for JEE- Main and JEE-Advanced.
For entry into IITs, all aspirants have to appear for the main test and the advanced test. The top 50,000 students in the main test will have their advance papers evaluated for IIT merit positions.
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I agree that students shouldn't just focus on cracking JEE and that
the coaching centres are lowering the standard of students making it
into the IITs. But, this may not be the right way to change these
things. The 2013 batch will be the most affected since they only have
a 11 month window to adopt to the new system, prepare for the JEE and
work hard to score in Class XII exams. It would have been much better
if the changes were implemented from 2014. Besides, the standards of
Class XII syllabus, teaching and examination is very low. The students
who write long and descriptive answers (even if the answer is
irrelevant) score good. The intelligent score well too but
normalization procedure would mean that even 1 mark difference in
these exams will set back the ranks by a thousand. This way the
brightest students might not make it into the IITs. I request the
Government to listen to the uproar of the teachers, students and
parents and to reconsider their decisions.
Why is Kapil Sibal imposing the decision on us??? I think we live in a
democracy and not in a monarchy. He is just diluting the INDIAN
EDUCATION. First by introducing CCE and now the IIT nuisance.
I am an iitian myself and we ignore intermediate scores because
they will not help us in any way in our JEE preparation. Our
intermediate syllabus is one of the most outdated and useless
syllabi in India when compared to CBSE or ICSE. We learn all those
concepts in our 10th standard itself. The difficult part is in the
"presentation of answers" and "rote learning" which help in scoring.
Why all these experiments are being made on us only.. First the CCE process and now this change of IIT pattern.. Its too much..
How govt. proposes to have parity between different boards regarding 12th class marks?
It is somewhat unclear why the aspirants in the first place would ignore the intermediate syllabus and focus only on IIT scores. That goes very well against the system. And they 12th standard syllabus is to be taught in 1 year. So what they're effectively complaining is that they can't finish it in the prescribed time. And a simple observation here - the rule applies equally to all students across India. It must be agreed that it calls for a change of plans but to outright say it will impact aspirants is going a bit too far. The corporate IIT trainers complaining about this is understandable. They'll no longer be able to charge high premiums for JEE training or force students to put the JEE ahead of other interests.
The normalisation formula seems to give unfair advantage to the small and boards providing poor quality education, where competition is less. Using the formula same percentage of students will be selected from each board irrespective of quality. Please do some example calculations and see.
The patteren should be chaged from 2014. So that the students know about the 10+2 weighterge well before taking admission to 10+1. There are lakhs of students who are now in 10+2 and have taken admission in the simple school. What is their fault? All these students are totally confused along with my child. Also some of them may be deeply depressed and may take wrong step. So I request Mr. Kapil Sibbel to do this from 2014 onwards so that at this stage , students should take admission in 10+1 school keeping in mind the new pattern... and there will be no any problem to the student who are in 10+2 now.
how many marks should come in intermediate courses for 50% weightage
Really a worrying changes for the students............!!!!!!!!
The proposed system of IIT JEE & other engg. entrance exams need to be thought deeply by Govt of India before it is implemented. The weakening of school teaching system over the years has created a mushroom growth of coaching institutes & even IIT trained brilliant grads (usually known by their AIR)are in this row and I must confess, it has become an annual 1800 INR Crore approx business in India. Probably in spite of the best efforts by GoI, no check has been created so far on coaching institutes. The young energetic mind's hunger for even basic knowledge in maths & science goes unattended for want of good & able teachers in present system. Clubbing of IIT JEE with proposed 12th board may bring dissatifaction amongst candidates as different boards & State Intermediate councils have their own limitations and proficiency of school's standard is not hidden to the Govt. I suspect JEE may not be able to publish the result timely. Let us re-think critically in broader national interest..
Thanks to HRD. This I was advocating for quite sometime that the students who joins IIT after cracking it but not by studying class XII do not come to the standard of IIT. They keep looking for shortcuts even in passing 1st yrs or 2nd year's exams. The problem of retaining best IITian is still there.
This is a revolutionary step in the admission of the Elite Institutions. The Corporate Colleges mint money and manufacture IIT/NIT students depriving of the really intelligent students of our country. The students also will give respect to the Board examination and study the subjects seriously. Now there will be an oppurtunity for Rural/poor students who cannot afford to get a seat into Corporate Colleges. We should be wary of these colleges who may try to get some stay from any of the courts.
A child takes 10 months to come out this world after long battle in mother's womb ? An IIT aspirant takes 2 years hard labour to click in one of the toughest examination in the world.Since one year has gone, does the Ministry of HRD trying to deliver premature babies in half of the time as required ? Think and act!
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