Cut off for different Boards for JEE based on Percentile

Board		Percentage Required
Andhra Pradesh		87.2
Assam		54.2
Bihar		64.6
CBSE		77.8
Chhattisgarh		56.8
Goa		56.25
Himachal Pradesh		63.2
Jharkhand		52.4
Jammu and Kashmir		67
Karnataka		67.5
Kerala		76.5
Meghalaya		49.4
Manipur		64.6
Madhya Pradesh		64
Maharashtra		61.17
Mizoram		56.2
Nagaland		49
Orissa		56.33
Punjab		70.8
Rajasthan		63.8
Tripura		50.8
Tamil Nadu		78.17
Uttarakhand		55.2
Uttar Pradesh		65
West Bengal		58
National Open School		60.6

For IIT K Sibal Shortlists CBI tainted Professor

IIT interview for ‘taint’ dean

OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT: The Telegraph

New Delhi, July 4: An IIT Kharagpur professor, indicted by the CBI for alleged involvement in a case of irregularity, has been shortlisted and interviewed by a Kapil Sibal-headed panel for the post of director of the premier tech school. P.P. Chakraborty, dean of an IIT department called Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy (SRIC), is among 11 persons shortlisted by the selection committee. Yesterday, the panel called him for an interview despite a CBI recommendation for departmental action against the professor. Chakraborty had been accused of being involved in outsourcing a software job to a private company in violation of the terms set by Coal India Ltd (CIL), which had placed orders worth over Rs 27 crore over two phases — in 2001 and 2004. The CBI, which investigated the projects on the basis of an anonymous complaint, recommended regular departmental action against Chakraborty and two others, A.K. Bhowmick, the then dean of the SRIC and the present director of IIT Patna, and R.N. Banerjee, a professor of industrial engineering and management. Coal India had placed the first order for Coalnet, an application software, on July 3, 2001, for Rs 8.9 crore. The IIT was not supposed to outsource any part of the job to any other organisation without the approval of Coal India. The IIT, however, outsourced the entire job to TCG Software Pvt Ltd nine days later. A similar allegation surfaced when Phase II of Coalnet, a project worth Rs 18.8 crore, came up. The IIT, which signed an agreement with Coal India on January 19, 2004, outsourced the entire job to the same firm two days later. In its report in 2007, the CBI said Bhowmick and Banerjee were primarily responsible for outsourcing the project, while Chakraborty “misrepresented to CIL that the work had not been outsourced to TCG”. The three faculty members also tried to defend their position by manipulating records, the CBI said. The human resource development ministry had then forwarded the CBI report to the institute for action. But the IIT’s board of governors, at a meeting in December 2011, rejected the recommendations of the CBI. In March this year, Sibal’s ministry asked the institute to seek advice from the Central Vigilance Commission since it had rejected the CBI report. The institute has to explain to the CVC the reasons for rejecting the CBI recommendations, but have the liberty to accept or reject the vigilance commission’s advice. Sources in the HRD ministry said selection panels shortlist persons for interviews based on their bio-data. However, a candidate’s vigilance record is checked before nominating his name for appointment. The 11 names shortlisted by the committee, which called Chakraborty and the others for interviews yesterday, are for the posts of directors in IIT Kharagpur and IIT Kanpur. The committee includes UGC acting chairman Ved Prakash, All India Council for Technical Education chairman S.S. Mantha, Infosys’s Krish Gopalakrishnan, IIT Kharagpur chairman Shiv Nadar and IIT Kanpur chairman M. Anandkrishnan.

Decision of NIT council

Press Release

The Council of National Institutes of Technology (NITs) met today forenoon to discuss the modalities of admission through Common Entrance Test proposed to be conducted for the year 2013. The Council took note of the fact that the IIT Council in its meeting held on 27th June, 2012, has decided, inter-alia, that the JEE Advanced would be administered on a separate date to 1.5 lakh students of all category, based on merit assessed through performance in the JEE Main, and the merit list for admissions to IITs will be drawn on the basis of All India Rank in the JEE Advanced, provided such candidates are in the top 20 percentile of successful candidates in their Boards in applicable categories.

2. After detailed deliberations, the NIT Council decided that the NIT system would consider 40% weightage for performance in class XII Board marks normalized on percentile basis and the remainder 60% weightage would be given for performance in JEE Main and a combined merit list would be decided accordingly. This system would be implemented from 2013. The members of the Council resolved to facilitate implementation of the new admission policy in close coordination with the CBSE.

3. The Council authorized its Chairman to constitute a Committee consisting of a few Directors, Chairman COBSE and other experts to look into the issues relating to normalization of class XII Board marks on percentile basis.

IIT spot gets tougher for CBSE, ISCE students?

Hindustan Times: 4th july, 2012

A cap that will allow only the top 20% students from each board to be eligible for IIT admission tests would hurt aspirants from tougher boards, experts have argued.Students from the CBSE, Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE), and state boards of West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh may be worst hit.

Many of them - who don't make it to the top 20% - would be as qualified as some of the top 20% students from easier boards but will not be eligible for admission to the IITs.

The IIT Council - the highest decision-making body of the IITs - last week decided on new admission criteria from 2013, including the eligibility cap, arguing that students across all states are equally meritorious.
Though there is no evidence suggesting any difference in innate merit between students based on their board or background, students from some boards perform better than others in common tests, two independent studies have shown.

This makes it harder for a student to squeeze into the top 20% in a tougher board, IIT-Kanpur dean Dheeraj Sanghi said. "You simply cannot compare different boards. Their performance levels vary widely," he said.
In 2009, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore scientists PS Anil Kumar and Dibakar Chatterjee compared the performance of students from India's 29 boards over 10 years in a common examination.
The selection test for the Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) is conducted by the department of science and technology each year to select the brightest high school science students, who are awarded a fellowship to pursue studies in the sciences.

Their results showed that the average score of students from the CBSE, CISCE, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh in the KVPY test - a common examination unlike the class 12 boards - in physics, chemistry and mathematics far exceeded those of aspirants from other boards.

The results were published in November 2009 in Current Science, India's top science journal.
"Our work clearly showed that students from different boards have different performance standards," Chatterjee said.
An independent study by Wipro and Educational Initiatives, a non-profit group started by alumni of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, published in December 2011 also concluded that CBSE and CISCE students have higher performance levels.

  

NIT Council Meets today: Very crucial

Prof Sanjeev Sanghi, IIT Delhi opines

An even more crucial meeting today: the NIT council. Why is this crucial?

1. This decides how the 30K odd students will be chosen, roughly 6 times the numbers in IITs.

2. IITs have tried to unentangle themselves with the NITs. Will tomorrow's decision re-entangle the two? If so what will be the overall implications? Will it start a new round of protests?

3. NITs have so far not protested. So may be they will be subjected to manipulation and usage of illogical and unscietific formulae like addtion of percentile and percentages.

4. The real sufferers, however, will be the children who plan to appear for 2013 exams, especially those who appeared in AIEEE in 2011 and 2012 and want to take 2nd and 3rd attempts.

5. In my opinion, NITs should continue with the current filter of passing Class XII instead of using percentile class XII scores, as implentability in 2013 will be a very major issue if percentiles are used, especially as an additive component.

6. I pray to God to give 'sadbudhi' and not 'ka-buddhi' to all the decision makers.

4. The real sufferers, however, will be the children who plan to appear for 2013 exams, especially those who appeared in AIEEE in 2011 and 2012 and want to take 2nd and 3rd attempts.

5. In my opinion, NITs should continue with the current filter of passing Class XII instead of using percentile class XII scores, as implentability in 2013 will be a very major issue if percentiles are used, especially as an additive component.

6. I pray to God to give 'sadbudhi' and not 'ka-buddhi' to all the decision makers.