IIT Advisory Body To Finetune New Jee Rules

IIT Advisory Body To Finetune New Jee Rules
IIT Advisory Body To Finetune New Jee Rules Filed under: General JEE (IIT)
The decision to reform the joint entrance examination for IITs came from within and was needed, an HRD ministry official said on Wednesday, adding that the joint advisory board of IITs would meet on Saturday to finetune the new directives. The idea behind the meeting is to put in place details of the system that will come into force from next year and ensure that no student is adversely affected, the senior HRD official said. Stating that there was nothing wrong in making 60% or equivalent at the plus two level as the basic requirement for the JEE, the official said that the idea was twofold: To ensure that the plus two result is treated as the screening test, and to break the stranglehold of coaching institutes trotting out a formulaic way of cracking the JEE. so strong is the grip of these institutes that there are cases where students have cleared the JEE, but score if less than 60% or even failed the class 12 exam, as is the case of the daughter of a person running an IIT coaching insti­tute in Delhi. The HRD official, an IIT-ian, also said another reason for the changes was that it had been felt the entrance system was affecting the IITs. Coaching institute products tended to be narrow Focussed in their approach to the IIT curricu­lum once inside the institutes, whereas originally, people branched out into diverse fields after passing out of IIT, he said. Asked about the vast discrepancy in the marking pattern of various senior secondary boards, the official said: A first division is a first division. Giving the example of Kota, where numerous coaching institutes have mushroomed, the official said: In these institutes students start solving JEE problems from early morning. What kind of personality would emerge from this? he asked. Asked if the new rule oflimiting JEE attempts to two would hold true for students who cleared the plus two in 2005 but did not take up the test this year, he said: Something would beworked out