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Latest News |
| 14th
July 2010 / Times of India / Delhi Edition |
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Bring students from all boards on a par, IIT panel tells
HRD
Mumbai: In case you thought you’d have a head start
in getting into IIT if you enrolled for Class XII in a
school board known for leniency during evaluation, you’d
be mistaken.
Although Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal has mooted the
idea of a pan-India uniform science curriculum, the public
technical schools have decided to design a method of normalizing
the Class XII marks of all engineering aspirants and bring
them on a par, suspecting that boards may jack up marks
to provide an undue advantage to their students.
The final report, ‘‘Alternative to IIT-JEE,
AIEEE and state JEEs’’, will be submitted
next week to Sibal and will include a clause which states
that although, to begin with, 70% weightage will be assigned
to the Class XII marks, its importance could be scaled
up or down in future. ‘‘Moreover, we’ll
be normalizing the marks in some fashion to bring students
from the varied boards on a par,’’ said a
committee member.
In February, the HRD ministry set up a committee headed
by IIT-Kharagpur director Damodar Acharya and comprising
IIT-Madras director M S Ananth, IIT-Bombay director Devang
Khakhar and IITRoorkee head S C Saxena, to cut the multiple
entrance exams for engineering and alter the selection
process in such a manner that Class XII marks were factored
in.
After holding meetings with stakeholders across the country,
the IITs discussed the report internally with each campus
to get inputs from their faculty members.
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