JOIN USThe National Institutes of Technology (NIT), while preparing an all-India merit list, will give 40 per cent weightage to candidates’ class XII board marks and 60 per cent to their performance in JEE-Main, proposed to be conducted under a joint entrance test for admissions to centrally-funded technical institutes including IITs from 2013.
A unanimous decision to this effect was taken by the Council of NITs here at a meeting on Wednesday.
The class XII board marks, to be taken into consideration for admissions, will be normalised on percentile basis through a formula.
The Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, has already developed a formula for normalisation of class XII board marks to be used in making merit list under the proposed test. But a committee, comprising the directors of the NITs, CBSE chairman Vineet Joshi, will now re-examine it to see its validity and suggest other measures, if required, sources said.
Earlier, the NIT Council had agreed to select candidates on the basis of their performance in both JEE-Main and JEE-Advance, to be conducted under the proposed joint entrance examination.
All India merit list
The NITs had then unanimously agreed to prepare an all India merit list of admissions by giving 40 per cent weigtage to candidates’ class XII Board marks, 30 per cent to their performance in JEE-Main and the remaining 30 per cent to their performance in the JEE-Advance.
But, a row over the format of the proposed test triggered by a section of IIT faculties and alumni last month forced the government to revisit the proposal. The IIT council at a special meeting, called by the HRD Ministry to end the logjam later, decided that only top 20 percentile holders will be selected for admission to IITs on the basis of their performance in JEE-Advance, to be designed and conducted by a joint admission board of the IITs.
In view of the IITs deciding to make their final merit list for admissions after JEE-Advance to be conducted by them, the NITs found it relevant to make their all India merit list for admissions on the basis of candidates’ performance only in JEE-Main, giving 40 per cent weigtage to their Class XII board results, sources said.
The members of the Council resolved to facilitate implementation of the new admission policy in close coordination with the CBSE.