Last year in 2012, Joint Admissions Board (JAB) – the top admissions body of the IITs announced a radical change in their admission process and they added a new eligibility criteria for admission to IITs. As per this eligibility criteria only students in the top 20 % of their school Boards in class XII examinations will be eligible for admissions.
But students from some state such as Andhra Pradesh where boards compute an aggregate score of class XI and XII performances raised their hands and filed a petition in high court. They argued that as the IITs announced the new admission criteria only in late 2012 – after these students completed class XI – they were disadvantaged compared to students in boards that compute only class XII scores.
But the HRD ministry has convinced the Andhra Pradesh government to provide student scores in only class XII to the IITs, to allow them to compute the eligibility of candidates for admissions.
“Yes, it’s true that we only announced the new admissions criteria in 2012, after most students who will appear for the 2013 IIT-JEE completed class XI, but that’s a challenge every student will face,” said a senior IIT administrator involved with this year’s examination. “No one’s at any disadvantage.”
But students from some state such as Andhra Pradesh where boards compute an aggregate score of class XI and XII performances raised their hands and filed a petition in high court. They argued that as the IITs announced the new admission criteria only in late 2012 – after these students completed class XI – they were disadvantaged compared to students in boards that compute only class XII scores.
But the HRD ministry has convinced the Andhra Pradesh government to provide student scores in only class XII to the IITs, to allow them to compute the eligibility of candidates for admissions.
“Yes, it’s true that we only announced the new admissions criteria in 2012, after most students who will appear for the 2013 IIT-JEE completed class XI, but that’s a challenge every student will face,” said a senior IIT administrator involved with this year’s examination. “No one’s at any disadvantage.”
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