28 May 2012 10:28:00 IST
, Daily Pioneer
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IIT, NIT bigwigs to take key call on joint engg test
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The joint council of IITs and NITs will meet on Monday to take a final call on the issue of format and pattern of the joint engineering entrance test. Sources said that the IITs have opted to pitch for the IIT-JEE pattern to be retained for 2013.
The IIT council had met here on May 12, during which it is believed to have insisted that the proposed single entrance test may be used as the screening test for admissions to the undergraduate program.
Last week, the IIT faculty federation called on HRD Minister Kapil Sibal and is understood to have sought to resolve differences arising out of the Government’s move to hold a single entrance test for undergraduate technical courses. The meeting was also attended by some IIT directors, who are understood to have also discussed the details about the advanced test. IITs are insisting that only performance in the advanced test will be used to select and admit candidates to the undergraduate programs.
Most of the IIT senates and faculty federation are opposing admission to the undergraduate engineering programmes under the new format which will replace IIT-JEE and AIEEE. Under the proposed new format, a ranking list will be prepared based on Class XII results with 40 per cent weightage to normalised marks, 30 per cent to main test and 30 per cent to the advanced test.
Sources also said there is no clear majority view emerging on whether to use board marks as cut-off or as part of the initial screening process.
Ahead of the crucial meet the Super-30 founder Anand Kumar, well known for getting over 300 students from marginalised sections into the IITs, too has suggested making the test more “transparent” and conducting it twice a year.
In a letter to HRD Minister Kapil Sibal, Anand, said students from rural areas be given three chances. Citing CBSE class X results this year where students scored high grades, he said such high marks are never given in the state board exams and that can put lakhs of students from state boards at a disadvantage in weightage to class XII marks.
Vriti Edustore
