Getting admission in the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) will get tougher from 2013 with the government and the IITs deciding a new formula for admissions to these tech schools. As per the formula devised by the IIT council, which met on Wednesday, the top 20 percentile students from every state boards will get into these engineering institutes.
This selection process will start from April next year when all engineering aspirants of the country would take the JEE main exam followed by an Advanced exam. Only the top 1.5 lakh candidates in JEE MAIN will be qualified to appear in the JEE Advanced exam.
?Admissions to IITs will be based on category wise All India Rank in JEE advanced subject to condition that such candidates are in the top 20 percentile of successful candidates of their boards in applicable categories,? said an official statement from the IIT council. HRD minister Kapil Sibal who was supposed to chair the meeting, did not turn up.
As per the new system, students who score 78% in class 12 board exams will be able to make it to the technology institutes as compared to the 60% cut off now.
?This is the result of an exercise we did with three state boards. The last child in the 20 percentile should have scored atleast 78% in his board exam,? said a HRD ministry official.
The common entrance test (CET) will also hold true for the NITs and IITs. On the other hand, the deemed universities will have to give a minimum 40% weightage to the class 12 boards marks and the rest would be CET scores.
?The 40-30-30 formula remains and we have been able to expand the spread from current 50,000 students to 1.5 lakh from which we will draw all the engineering aspirants including IITs, IITs and NITs. There will also be common counselling for these students,? explained another ministry official.
IIT Kanpur and Delhi, who opposed the CET have agreed with the new formula.
?There will be a public display of the rankings and all the recommendations of the IIT Joint Admission Board have been respected by the council,? said S G Dhande, director, IIT Kanpur.
