There will be now one common entrance test, the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), which will replace the old IIT-JEE and AIEEE. From 2013, aspiring candidates for IITs and other central institutes like NITs and IIITs will have to sit under new a format of common entrance test which will also takeplus two board results into consideration.
The announcement was made today by HRD Minister Kapil Sibal after chairing a meeting of the joint councils of IITs, NITs and IIITs.Itwill give more weightage to Std XII exam results and comprise of two objective type tests — JEE-Main and JEE-Advanced — which will be conducted the sameday.
The JEE merit list will be prepared on the basis of cumulative total of marks of Std XII, Main and Advanced. The Main will have multiple-choice questions, while the nature and modalities of the Advanced will be determined by the IITs’ Joint Admission Board (JAB).
For the IITs, only the top 25% who are above the cut-off and getthe highest percentile on the basis of Std XII marks and JEE-Main will be screened for a special JEE-Advanced; 50% weightage will be given to Std XII marks and 50% to JEE-Main scores. The IIT merit list will be prepared on the basis of the special Advanced result.
But seat and course allotment for all IITs will be held together in joint counselling.
For the NIITs, IIITs and other central government-funded engineering colleges, there will beno screening test. Their merit list will be based on Std XII marks for which 40% weightage will be given. Main and Advanced scores will have 30% weightage each.
At the end there will be two lists, one for IITs and one for other institutes. However, all students will be ranked, and IIT ranked students can also apply to other engineering institutions based onthis list.
The CBSE will conduct the JEE. The states will have the freedom to join the process for admissions intheir engineering colleges and theautonomy to determine their ownrelative weightages to Std XII marks, and performance in Main and Advanced.
According to human resource development minister Kapil Sibal, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Haryana have already decided to adopt thisnew model for their engineering exams from 2013.
The decision was announced following a meeting of the Joint Councils of IITs, NIITs and IIITs, with the Federation of Faculty of IITs.
The battle between the IITs and the government has been a long-drawn-out one. Opposing Sibal's move, the IITs had felt that a single JEE may dilute their qualityof students and were demanding a separate test to further screen students best suited for IITs.
“The kind of academic training given in IITs is different from AICTE syllabus. Hence, the mindset and aptitude of the students too has to be different. Which is why we needed a separate examination for IITs,” said Sanjay Dhande, director of IIT-Kanpur. The IIT Council has, however, agreed to move to the one-nation-one-exam format by 2015 with IITs too following the same pattern as NIITs, IIITs etc.
To prevent any disadvantage to the previous batches of Std XII, it has been decided that those who appeared for the Std XII exam in 2012 can improve their performance by reappearing for the same in 2013.
“The new system will be a dampener for coaching institutes. It will also reduce the mental and financial stress on students by preventing multiple entrance exams and reduce the discretion of engineering colleges and capitation fee,” said Sibal.
Students will sit for a main test and an advance test conducted on the same day.
For admission to all the centrally funded institutes, there would be40 percentage weightage for performance in Class XII (after normalisation of marks), 30 per cent weightage to performance in main and 30 per cent in the advanced test.
In case of IITs, there would be a filtering process involved. The board results and the main test will be given 50 per cent weightage each. Only the top 50,000 students will be selected for the advance test after taking into account their performance in the board results and the mainresult.
"The merit only in advanced examination will be considered for admission" to the IITs, Sibal said.
At the same time, he added, the IIT council has agreed to move tothe other system by 2015.
Explaining the selection of candidates under the new format for the IITs, one of the IIT directors said results of advance test of only those students who have crossed the "barrier" of the 50 per cent weightage to board marks and mains will be countedwhile preparing the merit list.
Even as the process of selection to the IITs would be different then other institutes, he said the counselling to IITs and other institutes will be done jointly andallotment of seats will be done together.
The announcement was made today by HRD Minister Kapil Sibal after chairing a meeting of the joint councils of IITs, NITs and IIITs.Itwill give more weightage to Std XII exam results and comprise of two objective type tests — JEE-Main and JEE-Advanced — which will be conducted the sameday.
The JEE merit list will be prepared on the basis of cumulative total of marks of Std XII, Main and Advanced. The Main will have multiple-choice questions, while the nature and modalities of the Advanced will be determined by the IITs’ Joint Admission Board (JAB).
For the IITs, only the top 25% who are above the cut-off and getthe highest percentile on the basis of Std XII marks and JEE-Main will be screened for a special JEE-Advanced; 50% weightage will be given to Std XII marks and 50% to JEE-Main scores. The IIT merit list will be prepared on the basis of the special Advanced result.
But seat and course allotment for all IITs will be held together in joint counselling.
For the NIITs, IIITs and other central government-funded engineering colleges, there will beno screening test. Their merit list will be based on Std XII marks for which 40% weightage will be given. Main and Advanced scores will have 30% weightage each.
At the end there will be two lists, one for IITs and one for other institutes. However, all students will be ranked, and IIT ranked students can also apply to other engineering institutions based onthis list.
The CBSE will conduct the JEE. The states will have the freedom to join the process for admissions intheir engineering colleges and theautonomy to determine their ownrelative weightages to Std XII marks, and performance in Main and Advanced.
According to human resource development minister Kapil Sibal, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Haryana have already decided to adopt thisnew model for their engineering exams from 2013.
The decision was announced following a meeting of the Joint Councils of IITs, NIITs and IIITs, with the Federation of Faculty of IITs.
The battle between the IITs and the government has been a long-drawn-out one. Opposing Sibal's move, the IITs had felt that a single JEE may dilute their qualityof students and were demanding a separate test to further screen students best suited for IITs.
“The kind of academic training given in IITs is different from AICTE syllabus. Hence, the mindset and aptitude of the students too has to be different. Which is why we needed a separate examination for IITs,” said Sanjay Dhande, director of IIT-Kanpur. The IIT Council has, however, agreed to move to the one-nation-one-exam format by 2015 with IITs too following the same pattern as NIITs, IIITs etc.
To prevent any disadvantage to the previous batches of Std XII, it has been decided that those who appeared for the Std XII exam in 2012 can improve their performance by reappearing for the same in 2013.
“The new system will be a dampener for coaching institutes. It will also reduce the mental and financial stress on students by preventing multiple entrance exams and reduce the discretion of engineering colleges and capitation fee,” said Sibal.
Students will sit for a main test and an advance test conducted on the same day.
For admission to all the centrally funded institutes, there would be40 percentage weightage for performance in Class XII (after normalisation of marks), 30 per cent weightage to performance in main and 30 per cent in the advanced test.
In case of IITs, there would be a filtering process involved. The board results and the main test will be given 50 per cent weightage each. Only the top 50,000 students will be selected for the advance test after taking into account their performance in the board results and the mainresult.
"The merit only in advanced examination will be considered for admission" to the IITs, Sibal said.
At the same time, he added, the IIT council has agreed to move tothe other system by 2015.
Explaining the selection of candidates under the new format for the IITs, one of the IIT directors said results of advance test of only those students who have crossed the "barrier" of the 50 per cent weightage to board marks and mains will be countedwhile preparing the merit list.
Even as the process of selection to the IITs would be different then other institutes, he said the counselling to IITs and other institutes will be done jointly andallotment of seats will be done together.
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