The Centre’s hopes that
states would adopt a single format for undergraduate engineering courses were
met with a lukewarm response on Tuesday, with only a fraction willing to accept
the revised formula from the next academic session. This means that the ‘one nation, one exam’ proposal will be
restricted only to central institutions for 2013.
While UP, Bihar, Kerala and Tamil Nadu are opposed to
adopting the new formula, Uttarakhand and Chandigarh expressed willingness to
use the JEE results and adopt the same pattern of admission as the NITs and
IIITs immediately. Other states, including Maharashtra, Gujarat, Haryana,
Punjab, Assam and Rajasthan,have expressed approval to the format but are
likely to adopt the new pattern by 2014. Bengal, which had opposed the move in
the last meeting, did not even send a representative.
The HRD ministry had recently announced a common entrance test (CET) for all centrally funded engineering institutions, including IITs, NITs and IIITs, with weightage being given to class XII board exams from 2013. For admission to IITs, students will be shortlisted on the basis of their cumulative score for class XII and the main test (50% weightage each). Class XII marks will be standardized on percentile basis by a formula worked out by the Indian Statistical Institute. The merit list will be decided on the performance in the advance test.
The HRD ministry had recently announced a common entrance test (CET) for all centrally funded engineering institutions, including IITs, NITs and IIITs, with weightage being given to class XII board exams from 2013. For admission to IITs, students will be shortlisted on the basis of their cumulative score for class XII and the main test (50% weightage each). Class XII marks will be standardized on percentile basis by a formula worked out by the Indian Statistical Institute. The merit list will be decided on the performance in the advance test.
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