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Latest News |
| 03rd
July 2010 / Times of India / Delhi Edition |
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Online IIT counselling fails to give many course of
choice
New Delhi: The online counselling for admission into IITs,
introduced for the first time, has not quite lived up
to the expectations. Many students, who figure between
5,000 and 6,000 on the All India Rank (AIR) of the common
merit list, have failed to make it to any engineering
or science courses in any of the IITs.
A student pointed out that he was unaware about the cutoff
ranks even though the online process does have the option.
He said, “We are also clueless why we did not get
a particular course or the possibility of getting it after
the second round of counselling.”
Of the 13,000 successful candidates, 9,000 got the AIR
and were placed in the common merit list. IIT insiders
say online counselling should also show the status of
all the seats up for grabs along with their AIRs so that
a student can assess his chances, including whether the
aspirant can qualify in the second round of admission
that begins later this month.
There are other major lacunae in the online counselling
process. One of them is lack of confidentiality. Anyone
can virtually tamper with a student’s choice of
the course.
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