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The new IIT exam pattern
Thursday June 28, 2012 10:16:16 AM,
IANS
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The Indian Institutes of Technology
(IIT) Council Wednesday struck a compromise with the human
resource development ministry on the new pattern of entrance
examinations. Here are its salient features:
* There will be two exams, the joint entrance examination (JEE)
"main" followed by the JEE "advanced".
* These combine the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE)
and the IIT-JEE, with the "main" exam being equivalent to AIEEE,
and "advanced" being equivalent to the IIT-JEE.
* There will be a "suitable" time gap between the two exams,
though it was not clarified how much.
* Only top 150,000 candidates (including all categories) from the
JEE "main" will be qualified to appear in the JEE "advanced"
examination.
* Admission to IITs will be based on the rank in the "advanced"
exam.
* However, only students who come in among the top 20 percent
scorers in their respective board will be considered eligible for
the IITs.
* The "advanced" exam will be held by the IITs, just like the IIT-
JEE. It will be conducted by a Joint Admission Board (JAB) and
Joint Implementation Committee of the IITs, the same which so far
conducted the JEE.
* The JEE "main" will be conducted by the Central Board of
Secondary Education (CBSE), and it will coordinate with the IITs.
It will be implemented from 2013.
* Admission to the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and
Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) will be based
on the "main" exam score. A final decision on methodology of
admission is pending. A meeting of representatives from the NITs
is scheduled for July 4.
* Admission to several deemed universities will also be on the
basis of scores in the "main" exam, which earlier took students on
basis of AIEEE scores. A minimum percentage criteria will be fixed
for these too.
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