IIT Bombay to scrutinize new CET
Faculty members of IIT Bombay will meet today to discuss how to break the deadlock of IITs and the HRD Ministry over the new CET. The key solutions to be discussed are:
- Students can only get admission to IITs if they are in Top 10 to 20 percentile in their Class XII board exams.
- The HRD Ministry will conduct the CET to just screen top 50,000 or more candidates for IITs, without considering the board performance. Only these candidates will be eligible to appear for IIT JEE, conducted jointly by the IITs.
- IIT will own and conduct its JEE on a date after the Main exam. Final merit list will be drawn according to an individual’s performance in JEE, subject to the percentile cutoffs. The IITs would be responsible to decide the JEE format. Read more
Joint Admission Board of the IITs may be roped in
To pacify the IITs, the government has decided to rope in the Joint admission Board (JAB) of the IITs to finalise modalities of the Advance Exam for 2013. IITs had earlier suggested that the Advance test should be of subjective type and should be conducted on a different day after the Main exam.
Meanwhile, the Council of Boards of School Education will also meet later this month to decide how to coordinate the plus-two exams and declaration of their results across different boards in time. Their results will be required to prepare the merit list of the new CET. See details
IIT aspirants in a quandary
Still enveloped in clouds of uncertainty, the new Common Entrance Test proposed by the HRD Ministry is to be introduced next year. Though, the final selection criteria, exam format, and grading system are yet to be finalised. This has led to tremendous stress and anxiety among students who are preparing for admission into IITs and other CFTIs next year.
Teachers and academic mentors too are puzzled about how to plan the study schedules for students and which curriculum to follow. The stipulation that each state will decide the weightage they want to give to the Class XII board marks, Main exams, and Advance exams has led to further confusion. Know details
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