Wednesday 10 July 2013

New JEE rule unsettles students

A new rule, introduced by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) from this year, has created a chaoes and commotion among the JEE (main) aspirants. The new rule is making making it tough for the JEE pass candidates to get admission in their dream colleges.

Ambiguity in the normalizing procedure of JEE (main) rank has upset the expected ranks of students and has made their future hanging in between.

According to the new norm, marks of class XII would get 40% weightage; However JEE marks will contain 60% weightage to decide all India JEE rank. But this system is resulting such that a student with a high score in JEE (main) and not so low percentage in Class XII (for example 90%) could have a rank much lower than a friend who scored less in JEE (main) but had a higher percentage in the board result.

Students, for whom it was an easy task to get admission in their dream college only with the JEE marks, have been forced to face the rejection after the inclusion of boards marks. According to these students, it was not mentioned earlier that this inclusion of board marks will be based on percentile basis.

Rishav, a JEE passed candidate, said, "Normalizing procedure of JEE (main) rank, is turning out to be more complicated than what the CBSE had claimed as this percentile system is not clear and comprehensible. Nobody is able to understand it. Apart from that, there is no transparency in the ranking system as well. If the CBSE wanted to add the board marks in JEE, they could have made it simple through the average percentage, this percentile system had disturbed everything."

Nikhil Garg, a candidate of JEE said, "My JEE marks is 170 and board marks is 425 which resulted in 48000th rank in JEE (main). However, one of my friends scored 148 marks in JEE and obtained 450 marks in board that lead him to score 43000th rank. Now you see the difference of JEE marks and board marks. There is a difference of 22 marks in our JEE marks and a difference of 55 marks in board marks. But the difference between the JEE rank can depict the clear picture of percentile system. Another friend of mine scored 148 in JEE and 470 in board, but the rank he got is around 30,000."

Gautam, another candidate of JEE, said,"The earlier procedure would have allowed me to get admission in any college I wanted to, but now this percentile system has turned the table upside down. I won't get admission in any college I wish for and the counseling dates of all the universities are around the corner. We were not aware of this percentile system. This system in not fare. The CBSE should do something."
Counseling session would be held at all the colleges and centers of Punjab Technical University on July 16, in the National Institutes of Technology on July 21 and in the Panjab University on July 16.


Source: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-07-09/ludhiana/40468270_1_jee-marks-percentile-system-new-jee

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