Only JEE Main for admission to non IITs
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A meeting chaired by HRD minister Kapil Sibal will be held tomorrow (June 27), to redress the newly reformed combined JEE for admission to centrally funded tech schools. HRD ministry will present a set of suggestions before the IIT Council and if the council accepts the proposal, students seeking admission to institutes other than Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) will only have the take the JEE mains, reported The Telegraph.
The initiative has been taken up in order to resolve the disagreement on admission reforms that have been opposed by IIT faculty. As planned earlier by the HRD Ministry, the two exams namely, IIT-JEE and AIEEE were to be replaced by a combined JEE for admission to all centrally funded technical institutes. The new JEE is to have two parts: Main and Advanced exam.
According to the original proposal, all candidates were to take both exams. (Read more on the JEE controversy)
The key features of the new proposal include:
- Eliminate the planned weightage to candidates' Class XII board marks in IIT admission
- Only the aspirants of National Institutes of Technology (NITs) or the Indian Institutes of InformationTechnology (IIITs) should take only the JEE Main.
- Only IIT aspirants would have to take both the JEE Main and the JEE Advanced.
IIT Council will also consider letting the IITs hold the JEE Advanced on a later date accordingly. Earlier, the Main and Advanced were supposed to be held on the same day which was strongly opposed by IIT faculties as it would be exhaustive for the students.
The HRD ministry will also ask the IITs to streamline the JEE Advanced syllabus with that of the Main so that the tougher second-round exam will run smooth in the future. The HRD minister have also met the vice-chancellors of deemed universities and proposed them to adopt the JEE Main for admission to their engineering courses.
A ministry official told The Telegraph that all the deemed universities have consented to adopt the JEE main pattern and give weightage to class XII board marks in the admission process. However, the universities will also be given the liberty to determine their own weightage for Board exam scores. (Read more)
If the council accepts the new proposal, it will be a relief to more than seven lakh students as approximately five lakh students take the IIT-JEE while 12 lakh appear in the AIEEE for 15,000 seats across the other centrally funded tech schools, including 30 NITs, four IIITs and a few other institutes. (Read complete story)
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