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Latest News |
| 28th
January 2010 / Times of India / Bangalore Edition |
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IIT-K not to offer quota lolly for medical courses
Mumbai: The new school of medical science and technology
at the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur will not
relax entry norms for reserved category students, a practice
followed by all the IITs to admit undergraduate and postgraduate
candidates.
Each year, the IITs lower their qualifying scores dramatically
to admit candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes
and the Scheduled Tribes who take the Joint Entrance Exam;
and, to admit students from the Other Backward Category,
the score of the last generalcategory student is taken
and relaxed by 10 per cent. Similarly, entry norms are
relaxed while shortlisting reserved-category post-graduate
candidates who can also avail of scholarships when they
join technical schools based on the Graduate Aptitude
Test in Engineering scores.
Admission for the masters in medical science and technology
offered at the medical school on the Kharagpur campus
has not set any special criterion to admit reserved category
students . The IIT-Kharagpur prospectus notes, The selection
process is strictly based on the performance of the candidates
in an objective type of written test of two hours duration.
M Manjunath, senior faculty of this school, said, We do
have seats reserved for backward category students. But
we dont have a set relaxed formula to admit students belonging
to the reserved category. There are currently 15 seats
in this three-year programme and MBBS graduates would
have to take a separate entrance test.
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