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| 10th
Sep 2010 / Times of India / Delhi Edition |
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State education boards oppose IIT-JEE reform plan
New Delhi: Many state education boards have rejected the
proposal of giving weightage to class XII marks for admission
to IITs on the ground that each board has its own standard
of examination and way of evaluation which cannot be put
on a par with others.
The report on JEE reforms, prepared by a committee headed
by IIT Kharagpurs director Damodar Acharya, will come up
for discussion during the IIT Council meeting on Friday
and it remains to be seen how the issue will be resolved. The
Acharya committee had said that the admission would be
based on the class XII marks as well as the marks scored
in an aptitude test and an add-on test, based on subjective
questions. The state boards of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and
many northern states have said there is a great deal of
variation in evaluation that cannot be resolved through
the process of normalisation. Explaining problems with
normalization, a senior official of the Uttar Pradesh board
said, The process of normalization will result in many
state boards inflating marks of children.
He gave the example of BITS Pilani that gave up the system
of direct admission after normalizing marks of students
from all over the country. The reason, the UP official said, was
that BITS realized that 70% of its students were coming
from one state. Finally, BITS started taking students through
its own entrance examination called BITSAT. Now direct
admission is limited to state board toppers.
He pointed out that even IIT-GATE, UPSC-civil services
have discarded normalization of marks because it cannot
be done effectively.
But Acharyas ideas have found favour with the Central
Board of Secondary Education and the state boards of Tamil
Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. An official of the AP board said, The
proposal by Acharya will be good for students and less
stressful.
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