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IIT-Delhi alumni reject new entrance test formula
Thursday June 28, 2012 10:45:55 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: IIT Delhi
Alumni Association Thursday rejected the human resource
development (HRD) ministry's new formula for tests for entrance
into the premier institutes and demanded a status quo in 2013.
The ministry's fresh proposal enables only top 20 percent scorers
of any board in Class 12 exam to enter the Indian Institutes of
Technology (IITs).
The association's decision was taken here after a two-hour meeting
with representatives of IIT faculty, following a compromise
between the HRD ministry and IIT Council Wednesday over the
entrance exam pattern for admission to engineering institutes.
As per the new formula, there will be a "main" test for the top 20
percent scorers of all boards, and then a final "advanced" exam,
under the IITs supervision, for the top 150,000 applicants. The
new format will come into effect from 2013, if accepted by the
ministry.
"The 20 percent criteria and 2013 to be the beginning year of the
new proposal stands rejected because such patch-work solutions
have been taken in haste to meet deadlines," said a statement by
the association.
The HRD ministry and IIT Council Wednesday agreed to have a new
two-stage entrance test formula proposed by the IITs following
opposition from some of the premier institutes to the single
entrance examination mooted by HRD Minister Kapil Sibal. The
meeting was attended by directors of all IITs.
As per the new formula, All India Engineering Entrance Examination
and and IIT-Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) will be combined in a common
entrance test.
The association said that the new formula was contrary to the
objectives set out by the ministry and "prejudicial to the
interests of the present students of Class 12 and from rural India
where school education is in a shambles."
The association said that it will wait for the decision of the
senates.
"We will follow up with the senates on the question of 20
percentile and 2013 to be the beginning year," said the statement.
"We want status quo till 2013 and in the meantime we expect
deliberations to meet the diverse objectives of the HRD ministry,
the IITs and other stake holders," it added.
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