Thursday, 12 April 2012

HRD wants coaching OUT, board marks IN: Agenda set for 23rd April for final call

Dear Students and teachers

As the discussion continues regarding new pattern,we are directly posting from Agenda sheet released by HRD ministry. It is not a final decision but this is the agenda around which final decision is likely to be taken,


FIFTY NINTH MEETING OF THE CENRAL ADVISORY BOARD OF EDUCATION
AGENDA ITEMS & BACKGROUND NOTES 23rd APRIL, 2012  at 11.00 A.M. at
Hotel Ashok, New Delhi MINISTRY

Multiplicity of entrance examinations for admission to engineering institutions has been a cause of concern. The burden imposed on the students in terms of time, payment of examination fees and the stress caused in scheduling and preparing for each examination is tremendous and the anxiety and trauma on both the students and parents have been highlighted on numerous occasions. Besides, the present system of examination has unwittingly distorted the very foundations of the school education system; rote learning and coaching have taken precedence over the analytical and problem solving ability 

The Council accepted the report of the Ramasami Committee and decided that the report would also be placed before CABE and the State Education Ministers so that the new system could be put in place by the academic session 2013-14.

The proposal to hold a common National Examination with weightage to State Board results, normalized on the basis of percentile formula, for admission to engineering institutions was endorsed ‘in-principle’ by the Education Ministers in the State Education Ministers’ conference held on 22nd February, 2012. This note gives details of the implementation of the admission procedure to be adopted by the CFTIs for the admission process in 2013 as also by the States and other institutions wanting to be part of the single examination system. The single entrance examination for admission to engineering programmes in the Centrally Funded Technical Institutes and other willing institutions will be named as the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE).2 

MAIN and ADVANCE Papers: The JEE will consist of two papers MAIN and ADVANCE The first MAIN paper – usually scheduled in the morning hours – will be an examination of 180 minutes. The main objective of the first paper will be test the foundational understanding of the candidate in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics as learnt in the 10+2 years. The examination (test) will be designed by not only the domain experts of Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics but could also involve participation of experts in Psychometry. The second paper ADVANCE in the afternoon will also be a paper of 180 minutes duration. It will have the same syllabus as the MAIN paper. The questions will test the problem-solving abilities of students besides the skills of problem formulation and incisive thinking. The JEE result will specify the Board Marks (in equivalent terms), the Main examination marks and the Advance examination marks. Board Marks - The JEE result will specify the Board Marks. The percentile rank of a student in the science stream in the Board, he or she appears in, will be the marks out of hundred for the Board marks component. The rank should be given up to 9 decimal places to enable tie breaking. The formula to be used for the percentile rank is to be (cℓ+0.5ƒi)/N*100 where cℓ is the count of all scores less than the score of interest, ƒi is the frequency of the score of interest (the number of students with the same score), and N is the number of examinees in the sample. The percentile rank of students are to be based on the scores obtained from adding the marks obtained in the Board examination in the following subjects: a) Physics, b) Chemistry, c) Mathematics, d) one language subject, e) best subject among the electives taken by the student. MAIN and ADVANCE Test Syllabi - The syllabus for Main and Advance tests will be the same. This common syllabus will be prescribed by the Academic Group of the JEE each year. Application Forms – Candidates will submit separate application forms for a) taking the JEE and b) for admission to the participating CFTIs and other institutions. Application for JEE will result in allotment of a reference JEE number. After obtaining this number, a candidate has to apply for admission in specific participating CFTIs/ other participating technical institutions quoting this number. This will enable the linkage between the two applications.


CFTI Rank Assignment - In addition to the marks in the three components, a CFTI Rank will also be provided to each candidate. The rank will be determined by using the following weightages: Board marks – 40%, Main Test – 30%, Advance Test – 30%. Tie breaks will be handled in the following order: a) Board Percentile Rank, b) 3
Main Test marks, c) Advance Test marks, d) marks in the subject with the lowest average marks of the Advance test, e) marks in the subject with the second lowest average marks of the Advance test, and f) marks in the subject with the third lowest average marks of the Advance test. 

For more details....experts to read the full agenda and also enlighten us....its getting bit complex too for us to handle




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