Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Tuesday urged Union HRD minister M Pallam Raju to help students from Andhra Pradesh who appeared for JEE-2013 by giving directions to his ministry to compute the 20 percentile score of all candidates who appeared in the board examination in all subjects, irrespective of the stream.
In a letter to the Union minister, the chief minister pleaded for review of the entire gamut of issues pertaining to the present admission procedure to engineering colleges including the suggestion for abolition of weightage to class XII marks and to select students based on all India competitive exam.
The CM said the procedure should be fair, transparent and rational and should not give room for any kind of doubt or misgivings among candidates.
He said the revised pattern of JEE, 2013, conducted by CBSE, for admissions to engineering colleges is causing considerable heartburn among students in Andhra Pradesh.
Giving examples, the CM pointed that 40% weightage being given to marks secured by students in class XIIth for NIT admission is giving rise to anomalous situations. "For instance, two students from Andhra Pradesh stood 1st and 2nd in the country in the JEE (Main). However, after according the 40% weightage, they did not figure even in the list of top 300 selected candidates," the CM pointed.
The chief minister said that whatever be the merits of the normalization policy, it's neither rational nor fair if a student scoring more marks in both the class XIIth exams and the JEE (Main), awarded a lower rank than those who get less marks in both.
Similarly, the CM pointed out that in the IIT entrance examination, the top 20 percentile of the XIIth class examination at 91.89 per cent for Andhra Pradesh is the highest in the country, while the lowest is as low as 56.2 per cent.
"As a result, many students from AP who cleared the JEE (Advanced) and got good ranks have not become eligible to join the IITs, as they obtained less than 91.89 per cent marks in the class XIIth examination," CM said and added that this is highly discriminatory.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/CM-wants-JEE-anomalies-set-right/articleshow/21111761.cms
In a letter to the Union minister, the chief minister pleaded for review of the entire gamut of issues pertaining to the present admission procedure to engineering colleges including the suggestion for abolition of weightage to class XII marks and to select students based on all India competitive exam.
The CM said the procedure should be fair, transparent and rational and should not give room for any kind of doubt or misgivings among candidates.
He said the revised pattern of JEE, 2013, conducted by CBSE, for admissions to engineering colleges is causing considerable heartburn among students in Andhra Pradesh.
Giving examples, the CM pointed that 40% weightage being given to marks secured by students in class XIIth for NIT admission is giving rise to anomalous situations. "For instance, two students from Andhra Pradesh stood 1st and 2nd in the country in the JEE (Main). However, after according the 40% weightage, they did not figure even in the list of top 300 selected candidates," the CM pointed.
The chief minister said that whatever be the merits of the normalization policy, it's neither rational nor fair if a student scoring more marks in both the class XIIth exams and the JEE (Main), awarded a lower rank than those who get less marks in both.
Similarly, the CM pointed out that in the IIT entrance examination, the top 20 percentile of the XIIth class examination at 91.89 per cent for Andhra Pradesh is the highest in the country, while the lowest is as low as 56.2 per cent.
"As a result, many students from AP who cleared the JEE (Advanced) and got good ranks have not become eligible to join the IITs, as they obtained less than 91.89 per cent marks in the class XIIth examination," CM said and added that this is highly discriminatory.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/CM-wants-JEE-anomalies-set-right/articleshow/21111761.cms
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