<p>A separate all-India merit list of general, scheduled caste, scheduled tribe and other backward class category students will be prepared for admission to IITs under the proposed joint entrance test to be held from 2013.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Ending the logjam over the government’s “one nation, one examination” proposal, the IIT council recently decided that only top 20 percentile holders in their respective school boards will be entitled for admissions to the premier technical institutions on the basis of their performance in the JEE-Advance.<br /><br />“The new format will not affect the reservation policy in admissions. The all-India merit list will have category wise list of top 20 percentile holders of the respective school boards, not a general list,” a Human Resource Development Ministry official told Deccan Herald.<br /><br />For instance, if the joint admission board (JAB) of IITs is looking into the percentile of a candidate who belongs to scheduled caste, it will only compare his school board marks with the marks of candidates belonging to his category.<br /><br />“Percentile of candidate belonging to general or reserved category will only be determined comparing his school board marks with other candidates of his or her category, not with those belonging to other category,” the official clarified.<br /><br />The screening of 1.50 lakh students after their performance in JEE-Main will also be done keeping the percentage of reserved seats in mind, he added.<br /><br />For the SC and ST category students, 15 per cent and 7.5 per cent seats respectively are reserved in every programme in all IITs. For candidates belonging to OBC (non creamy layer), 27 per cent seats are reserved in all IITs.<br /><br />Percentile score of a student is obtained by dividing the number of students below him or her with the total number of students appeared in the examination. <br /><br />The equivalent percentage of marks for top 20 percentile holders of different school boards and categories is being worked out by the respective state secondary school boards. “They are expected to make top 20 percentile holders public very soon,” the official said.</p>
<p>A separate all-India merit list of general, scheduled caste, scheduled tribe and other backward class category students will be prepared for admission to IITs under the proposed joint entrance test to be held from 2013.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Ending the logjam over the government’s “one nation, one examination” proposal, the IIT council recently decided that only top 20 percentile holders in their respective school boards will be entitled for admissions to the premier technical institutions on the basis of their performance in the JEE-Advance.<br /><br />“The new format will not affect the reservation policy in admissions. The all-India merit list will have category wise list of top 20 percentile holders of the respective school boards, not a general list,” a Human Resource Development Ministry official told Deccan Herald.<br /><br />For instance, if the joint admission board (JAB) of IITs is looking into the percentile of a candidate who belongs to scheduled caste, it will only compare his school board marks with the marks of candidates belonging to his category.<br /><br />“Percentile of candidate belonging to general or reserved category will only be determined comparing his school board marks with other candidates of his or her category, not with those belonging to other category,” the official clarified.<br /><br />The screening of 1.50 lakh students after their performance in JEE-Main will also be done keeping the percentage of reserved seats in mind, he added.<br /><br />For the SC and ST category students, 15 per cent and 7.5 per cent seats respectively are reserved in every programme in all IITs. For candidates belonging to OBC (non creamy layer), 27 per cent seats are reserved in all IITs.<br /><br />Percentile score of a student is obtained by dividing the number of students below him or her with the total number of students appeared in the examination. <br /><br />The equivalent percentage of marks for top 20 percentile holders of different school boards and categories is being worked out by the respective state secondary school boards. “They are expected to make top 20 percentile holders public very soon,” the official said.</p>
