A potential compromise formula ironed out by the Prime Minister with a IIT faculty federation may make the class XII exam scores even more important if carried out, with only the top 20 percent of the students from each educational board eligible to give the examination.
According to the new scheme, only the students in
the top 20 percent of each educational board will be eligible to write the IIT
entrance exam, the Hindustan Times reported today.
The new scheme was finalised during last week’s meeting between the Prime
Minister and All India IIT Faculty Federation and is likely to be discussed by
the various IIT senates and faculty associations of the engineering institutes
this week, the report stated.
If implemented this entrance examination system would be a considerable
departure from the originally proposed scheme under which class XII scores from
across educational boards would be normalised and included along with the scores
from the two entrance exams to be written.
The proposal which was to be implemented from 2013
has faced considerable opposition from IIT senates, faculty and alumni and as Firstpost has pointed out, had the
Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal overriding the autonomy of the national
engineering institutes.
Given that class XII results are usually announced after the IIT entrance
examinations, it would mean students will be giving the entrance exam without
knowing whether they have the marks that is required to see them through. If
they don’t, it would mean the students could possibly even qualify through the
IIT entrance exam only to find that they haven’t got the requisite marks to be
eligible.
Another option is for the IITs to delay the start of their course in order to
ensure that students who don’t have the requisite marks in their class XII exams
don’t write the exam.
However, both options mean that the best students suited for the IITs would
not necessarily be the ones chosen given the excessive importance given to class
XII examinations. And if the objective is to reduce dependence on coaching
classes for class XII, it might just do the exact opposite.
Perhaps given the indecision and lack of consensus on this new entrance exam,
the best solution might be for the HRD ministry to go back to the drawing board
and delay the new examination by a year to spare the lakhs of students writing
the examination in 2013 the needless stress.
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