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Single test for engineering courses from
2013
Tuesday May 29, 2012 10:06:24 AM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
By 2013, there would be a Common Entrance Test for admission into
various centrally-funded technical institutes, including the
prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), in which the
Class 12 marks would be given 40 percent weightage, the union
Human Resource Development Ministry said Monday.
A meeting of the Joint Councils of Indian Institutes of Technology
(IITs), National Institutes of Technology (NITs), Indian
Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) and other central
educational institutions approved the conduct of a common
admission examination in its meeting Monday.
The meeting was presided over by Minister for Human Resource
Development, Kapil Sibal.
The common national test will remove the multiplicity of entrance
examinations that a student intending to pursue a course in
engineering has to appear in.
"The burden imposed on students in terms of time, payment of
examination fees and the stress caused in scheduling and preparing
for each examination is tremendous. We have been working on
reforms in the examination system by moving towards a common
national test to reduce the burden on the students and at the same
time preserving the autonomy of the state governments and
institutions in devising its admission process," an official said.
The official said that another serious problem with the present
system is the neglect of the Class XII examination process while
admitting students to engineering institutions.
"This has led to the almost complete disregard to the secondary
school system and neglect of education imparted in schools,
impacting quality and access. Parents and children have been
forced to seek access to outside-the-school instruction methods to
enable the student to prepare for the multitude of entrance
examinations," he said.
"The proposed reform attempts to bring focus back to the schooling
system by giving weightage to performance in Class 12 board
examinations normalized on percentile basis. The reform would, in
the longer term, have an impact on the quality of secondary
education and enable better quality access," he said.
A Joint Entrance Examination for admission to the undergraduate
programmes in engineering would be conducted in two parts, JEE-MAIN
and JEE-ADVANCED.
For all other centrally funded institutions, there would be 40
percent weightage for performance in Class XII Board marks, 30
percent weightage for performance in JEE-MAIN and 30 percent
weightage in JEE-ADVANCED and a combined merit decided
accordingly.
JEE-MAIN tests shall be multiple choice objective type paper
whereas the nature and modalities of the JEE-ADVANCED shall be
determined by the Joint Admission Board of IITs.
A meeting of state education ministers' is proposed for June 5
where the participation of states in the common national test
process would be deliberated upon.
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