Majority of state boards have faulted in calculating the cut-off for students passing the Class 12 examination, leading to confusion among Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) aspirants on their eligibility for admission to the premier technical institutes, a Central government inquiry has found.
According to the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry, these state boards calculated top-20 percentile cut-off on all the students who appeared in the Class 12 board examination instead of taking into account only those who passed it during calculation.
“It should have been the total number of students who passed the exam. We have asked for some more clarification,” said HRD Minister M M Palam Raju, referring to the preliminary findings of his ministry. Recently, there were reports that some 79 students could not make it to the IITs despite scoring well in JEE-Advance because of flaws in the calculation of their percentile by the joint admission board of the premier technical institutes.
While finalising the JEE format, the IIT council last year had decided that only 20-percentile holders in Class 12 board examinations will be considered for admissions to IITs on the basis of their performance in the JEE-Advance.
Admissions to the NITs and other centrally-funded technical institutions will be considered on the basis of students’ performance in JEE-Main and their Class 12 board exam score, normalised under a formula.
A controversy, however, was sparked over the formulae developed to calculate the percentile and normalise the board marks after results of JEE were announced.
“Let’s see how many have been affected. We will have to look at how many got affected, what basis got affected,” said the HRD Minister when asked if he would consider giving relief to students who could not make it to the IITs just because of some flaw in the calculation of percentile.
Source: http://www.deccanherald.com/content/345469/flawed-percentile-calculation-deprives-iit.html
According to the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry, these state boards calculated top-20 percentile cut-off on all the students who appeared in the Class 12 board examination instead of taking into account only those who passed it during calculation.
“It should have been the total number of students who passed the exam. We have asked for some more clarification,” said HRD Minister M M Palam Raju, referring to the preliminary findings of his ministry. Recently, there were reports that some 79 students could not make it to the IITs despite scoring well in JEE-Advance because of flaws in the calculation of their percentile by the joint admission board of the premier technical institutes.
While finalising the JEE format, the IIT council last year had decided that only 20-percentile holders in Class 12 board examinations will be considered for admissions to IITs on the basis of their performance in the JEE-Advance.
Admissions to the NITs and other centrally-funded technical institutions will be considered on the basis of students’ performance in JEE-Main and their Class 12 board exam score, normalised under a formula.
A controversy, however, was sparked over the formulae developed to calculate the percentile and normalise the board marks after results of JEE were announced.
“Let’s see how many have been affected. We will have to look at how many got affected, what basis got affected,” said the HRD Minister when asked if he would consider giving relief to students who could not make it to the IITs just because of some flaw in the calculation of percentile.
Source: http://www.deccanherald.com/content/345469/flawed-percentile-calculation-deprives-iit.html
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