The Indian Institutes of Technology have lowered the cut-offs for the reserved category students to fill up the mandatory quota seats and restarted the year long preparatory courses. This year though only few IITs are conducting these preparatory courses in association with the others.
Taking turns with the bridge programme, some of theIITs have outsourced to their counterparts. IIT Roorkee is holding these classes for their students and joining them are students from IIT-Delhi and IIT-Mandi. Similarly, IIT Madras will have students from IIT-Bombay, IIT-Hyderabad and IIT-Gandhinagar in addition to their own. IIT Kharagpur will train students of IIT-Patna and IIT-Bhubaneshwar along with its own students.
The Preparatory Courses of the IITs are in essential bridge courses for the reserved category students who do not make the grade in spite of the low cutoff marks. Such students are considered when there are not enough candidates to fill up the mandatory quota seats. The students then have to undergo a year long course called the “Preparatory Course”, to be able to be on par with the regular students.
For the year 2012, around 276 physically disadvantaged candidates and 200 scheduled tribe students will undergo the Preparatory Course at the various IITs
As per IIT-Bombay director Devang Khakhar, this year has seen fewer students for the preparatory course, leading to the clubbing of resources across the IITs to avoid wastage of time, effort and money. Therefore the courses are being held in selected IITs on account of factors like faculty and space shortage that would be otherwise needed to hold them in the individual IIT campuses. This measure would ensure better use of the resources.
Students who undergo the IIT Preparatory Course are coached in Maths, Physics and Chemistry for a year and will have to appear for an internal exam after the year is up. They must join the institute where they have been originally allotted a seat after successful completion of the preparatory course.
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