Joint Entrance Exam from 2013

New Delhi: Starting 2013, a joint entrance examination will be held for admission into the central funded engineering institutions such as IITs, NITs and IIITs.
The councils of the IITs, NITs and IIITs on Monday decided to have joint entrance test for engineering colleges that come under these three councils.
According to the decision taken, for the first time, the class XII examinations will count towards entrance. There will be 50 per cent weightage to the class XII examinations and the rest of the 50 per cent to the main test.

The IITs had resisted a joint test with other institutions, following which a two-tier system was evolved.

As there are many boards that conduct the class XII exams, therefore, the marks will be nutralised on percentlile basis through an appropriate mechanism.
When a student qualifies in these exams, he/she will appear in an advance test. In case of admissions into IITs, a student who clears the three tests, will have to appear for yet another advance test.
Earlier, the IITs had resisted a joint test with other institutions, following which the two tier-system was evolved. The IITs though have agreed that if the formula works for the first three years, they may agree to do away with two tier system and have just one exam